Greece Puts Cyprus at Center of Eastern Mediterranean Security Agenda After Trilateral Summit
By Bosphorus News Geopolitics Desk
Greece used official statements after the Greece-Cyprus-Israel trilateral summit on 22 December 2025 to give Cyprus a sharper place inside its Eastern Mediterranean security agenda. The language coming out of the summit linked the island more directly to maritime security, critical infrastructure protection and regional energy planning, showing that Athens is framing Cyprus through a wider strategic map, not only through the unresolved political dispute.
The clearest signal came in the joint declaration issued after the summit, where the three sides underlined the importance of maritime security and pledged to protect critical infrastructure against emerging threats. By placing sea-lane security and infrastructure protection side by side, the text showed how Greece is increasingly tying Cyprus to a broader regional security framework.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis repeated the same line in his post-summit remarks, linking energy, interconnection and regional stability to the Eastern Mediterranean agenda. His remarks placed Greece and Cyprus within a wider regional setting shaped by infrastructure, transit routes and coordinated planning, with Cyprus assigned a clearer strategic role.
That direction had already been visible before the summit. Bosphorus News previously examined the emergence of the Nicosia-based Maritime Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, a project pointing to a more structured cooperation track around maritime infrastructure and security among Greece, Cyprus and Israel. The summit language gave that trajectory a clearer political frame.
The same shift became more concrete after the Jerusalem summit, where a trilateral military pact moved the partnership further into an operational phase. Formal defence documents, confirmed joint air and naval exercises, special operations training and expanding Israeli arms programmes for both Greece and Cyprus marked a transition from coordination to structured security cooperation. Details were outlined in this report on the trilateral military pact.
Greece continues to refer to Cyprus through the unresolved dispute, but the language used after the trilateral summit placed the island more clearly inside a wider Eastern Mediterranean framework. Across official texts, public remarks and the defence track that followed, Cyprus was tied directly to maritime security, infrastructure protection, military coordination and regional energy planning as Athens set out its priorities in more explicit terms.