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Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci have reached an arrangement that will eventually allow the interoperability of mobile phones throughout the island.

Israel's president on Tuesday hailed his country's flourishing ties with Cyprus, saying that cooperation between the two neighbors on intelligence, security and terror prevention has made the Eastern Mediterranean "much, much safer."

A vehement clash broke out on Wednesday between the leftist government and the conservative opposition over comments by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, captured on camera during a private conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron, about "extreme-right populists" in protests against the Prespes deal. 

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades has congratulated Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on the ratification of the Prespes accord with Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) which will change the small Balkan state's name to Republic of North Macedonia, ending a 28-year-old row between Athens and Skopje.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is set to meet with Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades at the Presidential Mansion in Nicosia at 9.30 a.m. Wednesday.

Tsipras arrived Tuesday in Nicosia to attend the fifth Southern EU Countries Summit.

The gathering of leaders from France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece and Malta focused on migration and other regional issues.

Cyprus, Greece and Israel have decided to set up a multi-party military force to provide security for natural gas infrastructure, Cypriot state television CyBC reported on Friday.

It said that the multi-party force decision was among unreported issues discussed at a summit of the three countries in Israel on Thursday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said that Israel, Greece and Cyprus will sign an agreement early next year to build a pipeline to carry natural gas from the eastern Mediterranean to Europe, while the United States pledged its support for the ambitious project.

Developments affecting the Eastern Mediterranean, the Cyprus issue and cooperation in energy, research, cybersecurity, tourism and innovation are among the issues to be discussed during the Cyprus-Greece-Israel trilateral summit, which will be held the Israeli city of Beer Sheva on Thursday.

The Cyprus issue, energy and regional developments are among the issues to be discussed during the Cyprus-Greece-Israel trilateral summit, to be held on Thursday in the Israeli city of Beer Sheva.

Cyprus's president is urging fellow European Union member states to revamp existing agreements that will require each country to take in a fairer share of refugees and migrants.