Welcome Address Vasilis Zomenos - CYPSEC Director
Your Honorable representative of the Minister of Defence of the Republic of Cyprus , Your Excellency Ambassador of Bulgaria , Your Excellency Deputy Ambassador of Israel , Your Honorable member of the Committee on Defence Affairs of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Cyprus , Honorable President of the Occupied Municipalities of Cyprus & Mayor of Kythrea , Honorable Chief of the National Guard of Cyprus , Honorable representative of the Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff , dear Executives , Officers , ladies & gentlemen .
I would like to welcome and thank you all for your participation at the 2nd anniversary CYPSEC 2021 , Cyprus Defence & Homeland Security Int ' l conference .
It is Cyprus ' turn , following the Int ' l Defence Exhibition of Athens , DEFEA 2021 and in view of the Israel-ISDEF 2021 & Egypt-EDEX 2021 exhibitions , to be included in this round of Defence Industry events here in the Eastern Mediterranean . We welcome the int ' l Defence & Homeland Security industry looking for new technological possibilities & solutions , along with the emergence of Cypriot companies ( R & D , Technology , EDIDP , EU H2020 programs , etc .) already active in the field and strengthening their links and efforts within the int ' l market .
To sum up , CYPSEC 2021 creates a new and fertile environment for the Defence & Homeland Security industry in Cyprus .
Furthermore , I would like to express my gratitude to the SENIOR Sponsors : BELL Helicopters , RAFAEL Advanced Defence Systems , DAMEN , KERSHIP to SPONSORS : MALLOC , EIGHT BELLS , ADDITESS , The Defence & Security Research Institute of the University of Nicosia and MAROM DOLPHIN as well as the SPECIAL ATTENDANCE Sponsors : Powder Technology Lab of the University of Cyprus and STRATEGY INT ' L for their valuable support in the preservation of this event .
Once again , welcome to CYPSEC 2021 and I hope it will be a productive and beneficial Conference for everyone . I call on behalf of the Minister of Defence of the Republic of Cyprus , the Permanent Secretary Andreas Louka , for the official opening of the Conference .