2012 in Cyprus

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Events in the year 2012 in Cyprus.

• President: Demetris Christofias
• President of the Parliament: Yiannakis Omirou

Ongoing – 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis; Cyprus dispute

• 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]