2012 in Cyprus

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13 January – The credit rating agency Standard & Poor's lowers its long-term credit ratings by two notches on multiple eurozone countries, including Cyprus, while lowering it by one notch for Austria, France, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia.^[1]

25 June – The country announces that it plans to ask its European partners for a loan of about 1.8 billion euros by the end of this week; this would make Cyprus the fifth European country to seek help.^[2]^[3]

25 July – Lamia al-Hariri, Syrian ambassador to Cyprus, and her husband Abdelatif al-Dabbagh, Syrian ambassador to the UAE, defect to Qatar.^[4]^[5]

^ "S&P; | Standard & Poor's Takes Various Rating Actions On 16 Eurozone Sovereign Governments | Americas". 2012-01-15. Archived from the original on 2012-01-15. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
^ "And then there were five: Cyprus seeks EU aid". Reuters. 2012-06-25. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
^ "Cyprus asks EU for financial bailout". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
^ "Syrian envoy to Cyprus defects". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
^ "Syria's ambassador to the UAE defects, joins his defected wife in Qatar: sources". 2012-07-25. Archived from the original on 2012-07-25. Retrieved 2020-08-14.

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