Anastasiades comments were ‘misinterpreted,’ says Cypriot gov’t spokesman
A Cypriot government spokesman has said that comments by President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday that Cyprus had drafted a plan to deal with the fallout of a possible Greek euro exit were misinterpreted.
During a radio interview on Saturday, Nikos Christodoulides said that the Cypriot president had spoken with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to affirm his country’s support for the Greek economy.
Responding to a journalist’s question about the possibility of a so-called Grexit during a press conference Friday on the end of capital controls on the island, Anastasiades said that Nicosia had “prepared a plan to deal with whichever outcome may transpire,” adding, however, that he wanted to believe that “there is no such risk.”