(Politico) Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides will head to Lebanon on Monday for talks on migration after the Mediterranean island declared a crisis on refugee flows.
“We are indeed in a crisis, but I want to assure you that we will do everything possible, and by saying everything possible I am not excluding anything, so that we can deal with this situation,” he told reporters Thursday.
More than 2,000 people have arrived in Cyprus by sea in the first three months of 2024, compared to just 78 in the same period last year, according to Cypriot government data. Some 800 people have arrived by boat in different parts of the island in the last five days alone.
