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- Catherine Vautrin and Vasilis Palmas will sign a status-of-forces agreement in Nicosia on Monday, permitting French forces to operate on Cyprus.
- The pact will cover coordination, defence technology sharing, industry links, joint exercises, education and personnel exchanges.
- France, Italy and Greece sent frigates after an Iranian drone hit a UK base, while Turkey warned the French presence could upset Cyprus’s fragile balance.
