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Cyprus News Agency: News in English (AM), 00-09-21Cyprus News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Cyprus News Agency at <http://www.cyna.org.cy>CONTENTS
0810:CYPPRESS:01[01]US Presidential Emissary - Cyprus talksby Maria Myles New York, Sep 21 (CNA) - US Presidential Emissary for Cyprus, Alfred Moses, has expressed hope that something interesting will emerge from this fourth round of UN-led peace talks on Cyprus. He also said the Greek and Turkish Cypriot sides are both engaged in talks about the substance of the problem but warned that "it takes two to tango". CNA/MM/RG/GP/2000 ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY0830:CYPPRESS:02[02]Cyprus talks - Turkish Cypriot leader - UN Special Adviserby Maria Myles New York, Sep 21 (CNA) - Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash has said he is engaged in negotiations on more issues than the four core ones the UN has identified for the UN-led proximity talks, which resumed here last week. The core issues relate to constitution, security, territory, and refugees-property matters. On the issue of Strovilia, in southeast Cyprus, where the Turkish forces moved their positions forward, in violation of the status quo, Denktash was intransigent, saying the matter is settled and claimed nobody came to any harm. CNA/MM/RG/GP/2000 ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY0845:CYPPRESS:03[03]China - Cyprus problemNicosia, Sep 21 (CNA) - China supports a negotiated solution to the Cyprus problem, based on UN Security Council resolutions. Speaking after a meeting yesterday with Cyprus Interior Minister, Christodoulos Christodoulou, new China's Ambassador to the island Song Aiguo said his country, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, supports the good offices of the UN Secretary-General, noting that a solution to the Cyprus problem must be negotiated and be based on relevant Security Council resolutions. CNA/RG/GP/2000 ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY1030:CYPPRESS:04[04]Minister of Industry - Hi-Tech Seminar - Industrial policyNicosia, Sep 21 (CNA) -- The high technology industrial sector will prove to be the biggest and most productive revolution in the industrial history of Cyprus, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Nicos Rolandis has said. He was presenting his Ministry's policy on the development of a high technology industry in Cyprus at the Hi-Tech Seminar, which took place yesterday in Nicosia and was coorganised by the US Embassy in Nicosia and the Cyprus American Business Association. CNA GG/GP/2000ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY1300:CYPPRESS:05[05] Nicosia - Traffic - CampaignNicosia, Sep 21 (CNA) - Only pedestrians, buses and bicycles will be allowed into main arteries in Nicosia on Saturday, September 23, in the context of a campaign organised by the Ecologists Environmentalists Movement in cooperation with the Nicosia Municipality, the Town Planning and Housing Department and the Nicosia Buses Company.The "Going to Town Without a Car" campaign was presented today at a press conference given by the representative of the Ecologists Environmentalists Movement, Giorgos Perdikes, who said the campaign is organised in the framework of the "European Day Without a Car", which aims at cultivating the awareness of the public about problems created by atmospheric pollution, noise, stress and the lack of public transport. CNA/CC/RG/GP/2000 ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY1400:CYPPRESS:06[06] Interior Minister - Illegal immigrantsNicosia, Sep 21 (CNA) - The Cyprus authorities have arrested the captain of the boat which transported 275 illegal immigrants to Cyprus. Interior Minister, Christodoulos Christodoulou, said today that statements from some of the immigrants appear to identify the captain as Ibrahim Muhammad Farrah from Turkey, who was found hiding in the hold of the boat on which the illegal immigrants are now being guarded.Speaking after a meeting with the Lebanese delegation investigating whether the boat, which sank of the coast of Paphos on September 13, actually left from Al Uzai harbour in Lebanon on September 11, in which case the illegal immigrants would be sent back there, as provided for in a bilateral agreement, Christodoulou said the captain would be taken before the Paphos District Court on the charge of illegal entry into the Republic of Cyprus. CNA/IT/RG/GP/2000 ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCYCNA ENDSCyprus News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |