02.10.2013.
General Diković visits members of the Serbian Armed Forces in the mission in Cyprus
Serbian Armed Forces Chief of General Staff General Ljubisa Dikovic has visited the members of the Serbian Armed Forces engaged in multinational operations of the United Nations in Cyprus (UNFICYP).On this occasion, members of the Serbian Armed Forces presented to the Chief of General Staff the organization of the life and work in the mission and introduced him directly to the tasks, responsibilities and obligations in the mission.
The Serbian Armed Forces members were first sent to the UNFICYP mission on 21 October 2010, when a staff officer and six members of the patrol within the Hungarian platoon travelled to Cyprus by plane of the Serbian Armed Forces from Batajnica airfield. So far a total of 236 members of the Serbian Armed Forces have been engaged in this multinational operation.
Currently, there are 46 officers and soldiers of the Serbian Armed Forces in Cyprus – a staff officer, two military observers, six members of the patrol within the Hungarian platoon and 37 members of the infantry platoon within the Slovakian contingent. The Senior National Representative is Lieutenant Colonel Predrag Djosic performing the duty of an assistant military engineer in the Mission HQ, in Nicosia.Visit to our soldiers and officers in Cyprus was a great opportunity for the meeting between the Serbian Armed Forces Chief of General Staff and the United Nations Mission Commander Major General Chao Liu. General Dikovic expressed to General Liu his appreciation for the support that mission HQ provides to the contingent of the Serbian Armed Forces. The Mission Commander conveyed to the Serbian CHOD his impressions of the level of preparations and work of the Serbian Armed Forces members.
In Nicosia, General Dikovic met with the Commander-in-Chief of the Cypriot National Guard Lieutenant General Stylianos Nasis, with whom he discussed bilateral military cooperation between Serbia and Cyprus, as well as the military political situation in Syria.
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