Cyprus Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos, in an exclusive interview with CNN-News18, said that Nicosia was among the first to back New Delhi during Operation Sindoor and had condemned the April Pahalgam attacks.

Kombos on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Green Line in Cyprus was a “powerful image" that carried “strong symbolism" and should be projected to the world.

The Green Line, patrolled by the United Nations, divides the Republic of Cyprus from Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus — a region Ankara seized in 1974 and continues to control through troops stationed there.

PM Modi’s stop at the buffer zone came at a time when India–Turkey relations remain strained, especially after Ankara’s diplomatic and arms support to Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, India’s

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