Memorandum of Technical Cooperation between the Department of Meteorology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment of the Republic of Cyprus, the National Meteorological Service of the Ministry of Defence of Greece and the Meteorological Service of Israel
On 3 May 2022, the Memorandum of Technical Cooperation (MoU) between the Cyprus Meteorological Department (CM) was signed, the National Meteorological Service of Greece (EMY) and the Israel Meteorological Service (IMS), at the facilities of TM's Athalassa Radiation Station.
The MoU was 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 took 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 representative of the Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Savvas Vladimiros, Head of the Middle East and North Africa Department.
The MoU provides for cooperation in all areas of the three agencies' activities. TM expects that the implementation of the MoU will bring mutual benefit to the three national meteorological services TM, EMU 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 construction 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 cooperation in all areas of competence of the meteorological services, as foreseen in the MoU. The ceremony included 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 beneficially for both meteorological services.
The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding. From left, the Director of the EMY, Lieutenant General (I) Dimitrios Siderides, the Director of TM Dr. Kleanthis Nicolaides and the Director of IMS Mr. Nir Stav.
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