British bases in Cyprus proposed to be opened to France

Greek Cypriot Alithia and other newspapers published the news regarding UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s proposal to the President of France, François Hollande, after their meeting on the issue of opening Akrotiri Air Base in South Cyprus to France for its use against DAEŞ.

According to the Greek Cypriot daily Alithia, UK Minister of Defence Michael Fallon qualified this as ‘a support for France’ and it is supported strongly by France, the UK and the Greek Cypriot government.

Alithia also noted that in his statement, UK Minister of Defence Michael Fallon expressed that British bases will be used as a movement point of France’s war aircraft against DAEŞ.