The developments in Syria and what they may signal for the region will be high on the agenda of the British Prime Minister’s contacts, Keir Starmerin United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Cyprus.

Other topics on the agenda of the Cypriot president’s talks Nikos Christodoulidis with the British prime minister tomorrow Tuesday, in Nicosia, it is expected to be the Cyprus issue, the Ukrainian issue, bilateral relations, immigration and UK-EU relations.

It is recalled that the Cypriot government had received laudatory comments from Starmer during the October meeting in Downing Street for the initiatives and the reaction to the consequences of the conflicts in the Middle East, such as with the “Amalthea” and “Estia” projects.

The British side highlights the opportunity for further talks on its deepening bilateral cooperation in matters defense and securityeducation, research and culturetrade and investment, energy.

As reported by a diplomatic source in London, Starmer’s visit to Cyprus, the first official for bilateral contacts by a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 1971, proves how important the role that Cyprus has claimed and assumed in the region is now considered, in a period of intense instability .

Britain’s position on the Cyprus issue

On the agenda of the conversations between the two leaders and soon after among the enlarged delegations will also be the Cypriot. British officials and Starmer himself have said the UK is willing and ready to play its role as a guarantor and respond to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ call for an expanded meeting with the guarantor powers.

The London reaffirms at every opportunity the commitment to support his efforts Antonio Guterres to resume the conversations and to search for a solution within the existing parameters of the UN, on the basis of a bizonal, bicommunal federation with political equality.

The position was reiterated during last week’s Downing Street meeting between Keir Starmer and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Other issues of particular concern to the British government and which have been placed on the agenda of the trip to Cyprus are immigration, the prospect of war in Ukraine and the attempt to re-approach with the EU, with London asking the closest European allieslike Cyprus and Greece, to support this effort.

OR agenda of Starmer’s visit, which was planned before the fall of Bashar al-Assad, mainly concerned trade ties and investment in the Persian Gulf countries, but also security cooperation in Middle East and Southeast Mediterranean.