Asked by: Baroness Mobarik (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the comments made in 2004 by the then Prime Minister on the need to “end the isolation of northern Cyprus”; and what progress they have made towards lifting sanctions on trade and travel to that region.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
In accordance with the rest of the international community, with the sole exception of Turkey, the UK does not recognise the self-declared "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" as an independent state. Several UN Security Council Resolutions also limit links between UK and the north of Cyprus. Within these constraints we support measures to reduce the isolation of the Turkish Cypriot community and regularly engage the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce on this issue. We continue to support a just and lasting Cyprus Settlement as the best means of resolving the difficulties caused by the division of the island.
May. 15 2024
Source Page: UK aid en route to temporary pier off GazaFound: UK aid has left Cyprus today for first delivery to new temporary pier off Gaza Initial contribution
Written Evidence May. 15 2024
Inquiry: Climate change and securityFound: recently supported domestic flood relief efforts and provided air support to the wildfire response in Cyprus
May. 15 2024
Source Page: Aviation modelling frameworkFound: countries: Andorra; Austria; Belgium; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Cape Verde; Channel Isles; Croatia; Cyprus
Found: deliver to humanitarian organisations in Gaza,180 and said it was supportive of a maritime corridor from Cyprus
Written Evidence May. 15 2024
Inquiry: Disability employmentFound: Maria Charalampous, Lecturer, Organisational & Occupational Psychology, University of Limassol, Cyprus
May. 15 2024
Source Page: UK aid en route to temporary pier off GazaFound: UK aid has left Cyprus today for first delivery to new temporary pier off Gaza initial contribution
Written Evidence May. 14 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: Available at: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/human-trafficking-smuggling-and-slavery 43Ranstev v Cyprus
Written Evidence May. 14 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: In Rantsev v Cyprus and Russia, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) declared a particular obligation
Written Evidence May. 14 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: countries including: Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Ghana, Iraq, Morocco, Türkiye, Romania, Cyprus