Wrap-up for world’s largest regional non-combatant evacuation exercise in Cyprus (photos+video)
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Cyprus is willing and ready to assume the responsibility of being a safe transfer hub in the volatile region of the Middle East, said Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Christodoulides.Some 21 countries took part in a drill organized by Cyprus that involves the possible evacuation of civilians from Middle Eastern nations.
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“The need for the exercise was created after the crisis in Lebanon in 2006, when Cyprus was used as an intermediary stop for the evacuation of 120,000 civilians,” vice-admiral Giorgos Oikonomou of the JRCC said.
“Since then Argonaut takes place every year to test the readiness of the involved authorities,” Oikonomou added.
