Cyprus

• Capital: Nicosia
• Population: 793.963
• Language: Greek, Turkish

• The Republic of Cyprus, the internationally recognised state, has de jure sovereignty over the entire island of Cyprus and its surrounding waters except small portions that are allocated by treaty to the United Kingdom as sovereign military bases. The island is de facto partitioned into four main parts:
• the area under the effective control of the Republic of Cyprus, comprising about 59% of the island's area in the south;
• the Turkish-occupied area in the north, calling itself the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, covering about 37% of the island's area and recognised only by Turkey;
• the United Nations-controlled Green Line, separating the two, covering about 3% of the island's area; and
• two British Sovereign Base Areas (Akrotiri and Dhekelia), covering about 3% of the island's area.
• The Republic of Cyprus is divided into six districts: Nicosia, Famagusta, Kyrenia, Larnaca, Limassol and Paphos.
• The government is responsible for administration of the whole country and The Central Service of Civil Planning for Emergency Needs is the basic institutional and advisory organ to the Minister of Defence for subjects of Civil Planning for Emergency Needs which comprises the planning, by the CSCPEN Services, measures to strengthen the defence capability of the Republic, in the case of an emergency.

Cyprus Red Cross

• Cyprus Red Cross is an autonomous body directed by its Central Committee, operating under the Cyprus Red Cross Law of 1967 and its own Statutes and in conformity with the Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
• Cyprus Red Cross is a properly constituted National Society, recognised as an auxiliary to the public authorities in the humanitarian field by the Government of the Republic of Cyprus, where the four Geneva Conventions are in force.
• The Society, whilst not recognised by the ICRC at the international level, co-operates with other components in the spirit of the Statutes of the Movement and identifies itself through the use of the Red Cross Emblem in conformity with the Geneva Conventions.
• Cyprus Red Cross carries out a wide spectrum of activities, primarily based on volunteers from all segments of society, in response to vulnerabilities among people in Cyprus and abroad, ranging from alleviation of the hardships of those internally displaced as a result of the 1974 invasion, via day-to-day response to local disasters and social hardship, to public information about new and re-emerging threats to health.