Cyprus and the Cyprus issue are a top priority for the Greek government, Greece's new foreign minister Stavros Lambrinidis said on Saturday during a lighting visit to Cyprus, his first trip abroad after assuming the helm of the foreign ministry the previous day.
Following his arrival at Larnaca Airport at noon Lambrinidis, a Greek Europarliamentarian until his appointment to the foreign ministry, headed directly to Cyprus President Demetris Christofias' summer residence in the village of Kellaki, where he attended a working lunch and was briefed by Christofias on the course of negotiations on the Cyrus issue ahead of the Cypriot President's July 7 meeting in Geneva with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu.
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