Cyprus, U.S. Sign PSI Ship-Boarding Agreement

Cyprus and the United States yesterday signed a ship-boarding agreement under the auspices of the Proliferation Security Initiative, the U.S. State Department announced (see GSN, April 11).

The agreement allows either party to authorize the boarding, search and possible detention of a ship carrying its flag by representatives of the other nation. Targets would be ships suspected of carrying proliferation-related material, but would not include ships of other nations.

Cyprus is the first European Union member state to sign a ship-boarding agreement with the United Stations, and the fifth nation overall. Other participating nations are Liberia, Panama, the Marshall Islands and Croatia (U.S. State Department release, July 25).

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