The first Cypriot citizen has been evacuated from Sudan and arrived safely at Aqaba, Jordan, on Tuesday, Foreign Minister, Constantinos Kombos announced.
Sudan factions agreed on midnight to a 72-hour ceasefire while Western, Arab and Asian nations race to extract their citizens from the country.
The current ceasefire is a window for intense efforts to evacuate Cypriot nationals from the area, foreign ministry spokesman Theodoros Kotsios, told state broadcaster CyBC.
The evacuee is the first of 23 stranded Cypriot nationals to be removed from the region and three other citizens have requested assistance, Kotsios said. Priority is assigned depending on conditions on the ground and location, the spokesman added.
The foreign minister, meanwhile, posted the successful evacuation on Twitter and thanked his Dutch counterpart, Wopke Hoekstra, for that country’s assistance.
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