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The National Defense General Staff (GEETHA), in the context of the operational training of the Armed Forces, has planned, organized and is conducting since the morning of Tuesday, August 25, 2020, an aeronautical exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean in an area committed in accordance with current international security rules.

Maritime and air means of Cyprus, Greece, France and Italy are participating in the initiative, using the "Andreas Papandreou" base in Paphos.

The exercise involves Frigates, Submarines, Aircraft and forces of the joint Special Operations Administration of GEETHA.

This exercise includes training in naval air defense, anti-submarine warfare and surface warfare, communications, information exchange, tactical image synthesis, advanced maneuvering and Special Operations.

A few hours before the extraordinary EU Summit on Belarus, Nikos Dendias was in Cyprus and discussed with President Anastasiadεs the coordination of the Athens-Nicosia actions against the Turkish provocation. 

In a letter to the Times, prominent politicians, professors and writers called on European governments, including the British, to support Greece and Cyprus on the occasion of a recent editorial in the newspaper entitled "Erdogan's Challenges".