A Memorandum of Technical Cooperation (MoU) which provides for cooperation in all areas of activity, will be signed on 3 May, between the Cyprus Meteorological Department (CM), the National Meteorological Service of Greece (EMY) and the Israel Meteorological Service (IMS), at the premises of TM's Athalassa Radiation Station.
According to a TM statement, the MoU was concluded following the joint declaration of 23 December 2018 in Beersheba, Israel, by the Heads of State Nicos Anastasiades, President of the Republic of Cyprus, Benjamin Netanyahu, then Prime Minister of Israel and Alexis Tsipras, then Prime Minister of Greece. At the declaration of 23 December 2018, the date on which the foundations of the MoU to be signed were laid, a bilateral memorandum of cooperation was signed between the Department of Meteorology of the Republic of Cyprus and the Israel Meteorological Service which works to the benefit of both meteorological services.
The MoU will be signed by the Directors of the three Meteorological Services of Cyprus, Greece and Israel, Kleanthis Nicolaides, Lieutenant General (I) Dimitrios Siderides and Nir Stav, respectively. The signing of the MoU will take place in the presence of the Ambassador of Greece to Cyprus Ioannis Papameletiou, the Ambassador of Israel to Cyprus Oren Anolik, the Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment Kostas Kadis and the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cornelios Kornelios or his representative.
TM believes that the implementation of the MoU will be of mutual benefit to the three national meteorological services.[/B]
It adds that among the objectives of the MoU are a full understanding of the weather in the Eastern Mediterranean region through the exchange of data and numerical weather forecast products, a more complete construction of the region's climatology, climate trend and its consequences in the Eastern Mediterranean, the preparation of more detailed short term forecasts (now casting), staff training, exchange of experience in database protection and network security and in general cooperation in all areas of competence of meteorological services, as foreseen by the best practices of the World Meteorological Organization
The signing ceremony of the MoU will be welcomed by the Honourable Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment Costas Kadis and the Director of TM Kleanthis Nicolaides.
According to the TM announcement, the ceremony will include a tour of the Athalassa Radiation Station, a UAV flight demonstration at the Cyprus Institute's airfield in Orunda and a visit to the Cyprus Atmospheric Observatory (CAO) in Agia Marina, Xyliatou.
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