Greece, Cyprus cooperate on foot-and-mouth

Rural Development and Food Minister Margaritis Schinas, and his Cypriot counterpart Maria Panayiotou, agreed to strengthen bilateral practice to code the veterinary situation of foot-and-mouth illness during their meeting.

According to the Ministry of Rural Development and Food, some sides emphasized the request for person coordination betwixt the applicable authorities successful Greece and Cyprus, based connected the communal European framework, with the purpose of limiting the spread of and eradicating the disease.

They besides agreed to strengthen practice betwixt veterinary services and technological teams astatine the technical level to show the progression of the illness much effectively.The two ministers besides discussed support for the livestock sector.