Australian MP Anthony Albanese has completed his week-long trip to Cyprus strengthening ties between Larnaca and its Australian sister city, Marrickville.
The Federal Minister for Infrastructure and Transport met with the mayor of Larnaca, Andreas N. Louroutziatis to discuss trade and further sectors of cooperation between the two countries.
The Australian Minster was curious to see how the city transformed its ports into important commercial centers of the Mediterranean over the last two decades.
Mr Albanese praised the “important contribution Australia’s Cypriot community” and discussed how to “encourage more cultural and social contact as well as education and economic opportunities between our two cities”.
The Minister also met with His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus, Minister for Communications and Works, Efthemios Flourentzou, General Secretary of AKEL, Andros Kyprianou, and the Mayor of Limassol, Mr Andreas Christou.
“During my visit to Cyprus, I had the opportunity to visit Larnaca, one of the country’s biggest cities and sister city to Marrickville since 2005. Locally, Marrickville is home to more than 5,000 Greek-speaking residents and many of these people were either born in Cyprus or have Cypriot ancestry. Owing to our strong people-to-people links, Marrickville’s relationship with Larnaca is one of the most active of all the Sister Cities,” Albanese posted on his personal website, adding that “My visit was the second visit by a Minister of the Federal Labor Government since 2007. The last visit was undertaken in 2008 by the then Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith. As well, this is my second visit to Cyprus since my election to Parliament.”
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