On 3 May 2022, the Memorandum of Technical Cooperation (MoU) between the Cyprus Meteorological Department (CM), the National Meteorological Service of Greece (EMY) and the Israel Meteorological Service (IMS) will be signed at the facilities of the Athalassa Radiation Station of CM.
The MoU will be signed by the Directors of the three Meteorological Services of Cyprus, Greece and Israel, Dr. Kleanthis Nicolaides, Lieutenant General (I) Dimitrios Siderides and Mr. Nir Stav, respectively. The signing of the MoU will take place in the presence of the Ambassador of Greece to Cyprus Mr. Ioannis Papameletiou, the Ambassador of Israel to Cyprus Mr. Oren Anolik, the Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment Mr. Kostas Kadis and the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mr. Cornelios S. Kornilios or his representative.
The MoU provides for cooperation in all areas of the activities of the three Services. TM believes that the implementation of the MoU will be of mutual benefit to the three national meteorological services TM, EMS and IMS. Among the objectives of the MoU are the full understanding of the weather in the eastern Mediterranean region through the exchange of data and numerical weather prediction products, a more complete building of the climatology of the region, the climate trend and its consequences in the eastern Mediterranean, the preparation of more detailed short term forecasts (now casting), staff training, the exchange of experience in database protection and network security and in general the cooperation in all areas of competence of the meteorological services, as foreseen by The ceremony will include a tour of the Athalassa Radionuclide 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.
The MoU was concluded following the joint declaration of 23 December 2018 in Beersheba, Israel, by the Heads of State Mr. 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.
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