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The countries are both members of the United Nations and Commonwealth of Nations. The United Kingdom has a High Commission in Nicosia and Cyprus has a High Commission in London. Irfan Siddiq is the current British High Commissioner to Cyprus, [1] whilst Andreas Kakouris is the current Cypriot High Commissioner to the UK. [2]
The High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Cyprus is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Republic of Cyprus. Previously a territory of the Ottoman Empire , a British protectorate under Ottoman suzerainty was established over Cyprus by the Cyprus Convention of 4 June 1878.
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Cyprus. There are currently 45 embassies and high commissions in Nicosia. Several other countries have non-resident embassies. Excluded from this listing are honorary consulates and trade missions.
For three Commonwealth countries (namely India, Nigeria, and Pakistan), the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) still uses the term "Deputy High Commission" for Consulates-General (headed by Deputy High Commissioners), although this terminology is being phased out. [1]
The Treaty of Guarantee was designed to preserve bi-communal consociationalism and independent state of the Republic of Cyprus. Cyprus and the guarantor powers (the United Kingdom, Turkey and Greece) promised to prohibit the promotion of "either the union of the Republic of Cyprus with any other State, or the partition of the Island".
Global members are appointed from countries that do not fall within the scope of any of the three regional groups, particularly Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. They attend the Commission's annual plenary meetings, but not the regional meetings.
Most of its missions are located in fellow member-states of the European Union, and in the Middle Eastern countries, with which it shares historic and cultural linkages. The unrecognized state of Northern Cyprus , also known as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, has its own diplomatic missions , albeit only to Turkey, the sole country ...
See Cyprus–India relations. Cyprus has a High Commission in New Delhi and 2 honorary consulates (in Mumbai and Kolkata). India has a High Commission in Nicosia. [174] Both countries are full members of the Commonwealth of Nations. Cypriot Ministry of Foreign Affairs: list of bilateral treaties with India Indonesia: 4 December 1987