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Cyprus The Republic of Cyprus
The founding documents of Cyprus's independence set
some
requirements for its foreign policy and linked the
republic to
three NATO members--Turkey, Greece, and Britain--through a
Treaty
of Alliance and a Treaty of Guarantee. These treaties,
calling for
the motherlands to garrison troops on the island and for
the three
NATO countries to guarantee and protect the independence
of the
republic, seemed to constrain or contradict the commitment
to
nonalignment enshrined in the constitution. Cypriots
complained
about these implied limits on their sovereignty, but in
time
developed foreign policies that were independent of the
motherlands.
Data as of January 1991
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