Over the course of this week, the Defence Academy of the UK and Cranfield College delivered the fourth Strategic Management Programme with companions in Cyprus.
A press launch by the Excessive Fee circulated Friday says that army professionals from Cyprus, Greece, Jordan, Israel, Egypt and the UK, along with colleagues from the Cyprus Ministries of International Affairs and Defence, the Customs Division, the Police and the College of Nicosia, accomplished the five-day course which was funded by the UK with help from the Cyprus Academy of Public Administration.
Along with coaching led by the Defence Academy, attendees heard private testimonies on the challenges of strategic management from Lieutenant Common Demokritos Zervakis (Chief of the Nationwide Guard), Mr Evgenios Evgeniou (CEO PwC Cyprus) and Main Common Rob Thomson, Commander British Forces Cyprus.
Defence Minister, Charalambos Petrides, and British Excessive Commissioner to Cyprus, Stephen Lillie, opened the occasion.
In his introductory remarks, the British Excessive Commissioner stated that UK and Cyprus defence relationship is powerful and the worldwide defence and safety challenges shared, and the curiosity is mutual in guaranteeing stability within the Japanese Mediterranean.
“Joint schooling and coaching initiatives just like the SLP are important to fostering ties on the particular person and institutional ranges, for now and into the long run”, he stated.
In keeping with the press launch, earlier this yr, a Nationwide Guard officer, and participant on this yr’s SLP, graduated from the Masters-level Superior Command and Workers Course in Shrivenham, England; one other officer is presently a part of a year-long programme with the Royal Faculty of Defence Research in London. Moreover, earlier this month, a small crew from the Nationwide Guard crew visited the UK to take part within the Cambrian Patrol competitors; a famend army expertise competitors. The Nationwide Guard received a silver medal for his or her efforts.
This fourth Strategic Management Programme falls inside an necessary yr for UK-Cyprus defence relations, spearheaded by the week-long go to to Limassol New Port this July of HMS Queen Elizabeth, one of many Royal Navy’s two new plane carriers and a part of the UK Provider Strike Group deployment.