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Cyprus has strengthened its counter-terrorism measures as close cooperation with the US, the EU and key institutions has secured its banking sector, a US State Department report said.The report, released this week and covering the year 2020, also details the creation of Cyclops, a US funded $5m training facility, which will strengthen regional border security and counter-terrorism efforts, including customs and export controls, port and maritime security, and cybersecurity. Among the improvements noted by the report was the scrapping of the controversial citizenship-by-investment scheme, following an Al Jazeera expose that revealed widespread corruption .It noted that: Termination of the programme will help prevent terrorists, and their sponsors and financiers, from buying an EU passport and the enhanced access to EU financial systems that comes with it. In November the United States and the Republic marked the second anniversary of the joint Statement of Intent on Security Cooperation, noting progress on several fronts.In June the FBI and the Cyprus Police finalised the technical details that would allow the secure exchange of fingerprints under the US-Cyprus Preventing and Combating Serious Crime agreement.The report reiterated that Cyprus is a member of Moneyval and underwent a mutual evaluation report, while its financial intell stanley cup igence unit Mokas is a me stanley fr mber of the Egmont Group. Follow Cyprus Mailon Google News counter-terrorismCypru stanley cup sUS State Department Sh Gfkn Moderate group hoping to add third candidate to 2012 election ballot
Now that Congress has, in imperfect form and only under threat of a shutdown, settled on a short-term measure to continue to fund the government, lawmakers soon can turn their attention to more important work 鈥?the budget for 2012.On the table so stanley cup far are two options: one from President Barack Obama that nibbles around the edges of the countrys growing fiscal problems; the other from Rep. Paul Ryan, t stanley mugs he Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, that remakes government under the premise that government spending, especially on entitlement programs, must be slashed.Of course, there is a third way, but to take it, lawmakers must show more discipline and willingness to work together than they did in the recent budget fiasco.In recent years, budget debates have become more about scoring political points than solving real problems. The federal government was allowed to slip within minutes of a shutdown Friday night, for example, as Republicans and Democrats played a game of chicken while trying to assess which party would bear more of the blame if government services werent available this week.Also, a major stumbling block to an agreement had nothing to do with dollars and cents, but rather was about access to abortion. In the end, leaders of both parties agreed late Friday night to a one-week funding measure whil stanley cup e the details of a spending plan through June 30 are completed.As Sen. Olympia Snowe said in a statement shortly before midnight Friday: Running up to the brink of |
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