‘Cyprus was not targeted in any way because of geography’

Cyprus “was not targeted in any way because of geography”, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Friday of the Iranian-made drone which hit the island earlier in the week, stressing that “it is a British base that has been targeted”.

During an appearance on British television channel Sky News, he was keen to stress that the government’s position is that the drone which hit the United Kingdom’s Akrotiri air force base in the early hours of Monday had been aimed squarely at it, and not at the Republic of Cyprus.