2012 in Cyprus
# 2012 in Cyprus

Events in the year 2012 in Cyprus.

## Incumbents

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

## Events

Ongoing – 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis; Cyprus dispute

### January

* 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.

### June

* 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.

### July

* 25 July – Lamia al-Hariri, Syrian ambassador to Cyprus, and her husband Abdelatif al-Dabbagh, Syrian ambassador to the UAE, defect to Qatar.
