A blessing or a curse of Cyprus energy resources?
7 May 2021,
Cyprus energy resources
One of the protracted conflicts of Europe, the Cyprus conflict has defied resolution over almost half a century. Yet, until recently, it remained rather latent and attracted little attention outside the United Nations and the main state actors involved. These days Cyprus has once again taken centre stage in the geopolitical debates surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean instigating intensive discussions of possible new resource wars in the region. Thus, the three-day Geneva summit with a beginning on Wholly Wednesday followed prolonged tensions over offshore gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean, accelerated by Ankara’s dispatch of drillships and naval vessels to the area last year, which have further highlighted the need for reconciliation in Europe’s only war-partitioned state.