Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 12 July 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the effects on (a) security and sovereignty of UK sovereign base areas and (b) relations between the two Cypriot communities of the Cypriot parliament's approval of regulations allowing for the declaration of security zones in areas it claims as its exclusive economic zone.
The UK exercises full sovereignty over the sovereign base areas in Cyprus, including their territorial waters and airspace. The regulations to which my hon. Friend refers do not affect this. The Republic of Cyprus has the sovereign right to explore and develop its maritime zones and we hope that this can be done in a way that builds trust between the two communities.
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