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Biden visit sends energy message ‘loud and clear’

US vice-president Joe Biden arrived in Cyprus

on May Wednesday 21 evening touching down
at Larnaca airport in Air Force 2 around 6.20pm
under tight security, the most senior US official
to visit in more than 50 years, as the quest to
find alternative energy routes into Europe focused international attention on the continent’s
only divided country.
In a short statement at the airport Biden said
“I wanted to come to primarily underscore the
value the United States attaches to our growing
cooperation with the Republic of Cyprus. This
relationship is now a strategic partnership,” said
Biden.
He referred to Cyprus’ cooperation in the removal of chemical weapons from Syria and to
its role regional energy security. Biden said the
situation in Ukraine also be discussed. “We
have to be resolute and united [on this],” he
said.
“An important focus of or conversations will be
the settlement process. The United States, and )$