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Lifting the US arms embargo on Cyprus

Today the State Department announced it was lifting a 33 year arms embargo on Cyprus, waiving restrictions on the sale of non-lethal defense articles and services for the coming fiscal year. Apostolos Zoupaniotis, the publisher and editor of the weekly Greek-American newspaper Greek News and a regular commentator on Hellenic issues, joins us to analyze today’s headline story.

You can read the articles we discuss on The Daily Roundup here:

Οι ΗΠΑ ανακοίνωσαν μερική και προσωρινή άρση του εμπάργκο όπλων στην Κύπρο – Συνομιλία Πομπέο – Αναστασιάδη

US partially lifts arms embargo against Cyprus

Menendez lauds decision to lift outdated arms export restrictions to Cyprus

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