{"id":57093,"date":"2026-03-22T04:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/57093"},"modified":"2026-03-22T04:05:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:05:28","slug":"uk-makes-important-announcement-about-bases-in-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/57093","title":{"rendered":"UK makes important announcement about bases in Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height:300px\">\n<p><strong>NICOSIA \u2013 Britain will not be using its bases in Cyprus for any \u200boffensive action in the Iran crisis, \u200cthe Cypriot government spokesperson said on Saturday, citing a phone call between British Prime \u200bMinister Keir Starmer and Cypriot President \u200bNikos Christodoulides.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe British Prime Minister reiterated \u2026 \u2060that the security of the Republic \u200bof Cyprus is fundamental to the United \u200bKingdom and, to that end, a decision has been taken to enhance the means contributing \u200bto the preventive measures already in \u200bplace,\u201d the spokesperson said in a written statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally, the \u200cPrime \u2060Minister reiterated that the British Bases in Cyprus will not be used for any offensive military operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An Iranian-type Shahed \u200bdrone caused \u200bslight damage \u2060when it hit facilities at Britain\u2019s Akrotiri airbase in southern \u200bCyprus on March 2, with \u200btwo \u2060others later intercepted. There have been no further known security incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Britain retained sovereignty \u2060over \u200btwo bases on the \u200bisland when it granted its colony independence in 1960.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/iran-war-uk-makes-important-announcement-about-bases-in-cyprus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NICOSIA \u2013 Britain will not be using its bases in Cyprus for any \u200boffensive action in the Iran crisis, \u200cthe Cypriot government spokesperson said on Saturday, citing a phone call between British Prime \u200bMinister Keir Starmer and Cypriot President \u200bNikos Christodoulides. \u201cThe British Prime Minister reiterated \u2026 \u2060that the security of the Republic \u200bof Cyprus is fundamental to the United&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/1774152328_unnamed-file.jpg",750,369,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":2560,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":2560,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}