Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 03-06-24

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CONTENTS

[01] Conference urges NGOs in Cyprus to play greater role in society

[02] Cyprus Stock Exchange

[03] Italian official to visit Cyprus

[04] President Papadopoulos announces additional measures for T/C

[05] Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

[06] Hellas Jet inaugurates regular flights

[07] Maurer arrives in Cyprus for talks

[08] Iacovou: Denktash may attempt resumption of talks

[09] Robles to arrive in Cyprus tomorrow

[01] Conference urges NGOs in Cyprus to play greater role in society

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Conference urges NGOs in Cyprus to play greater role in society

Nicosia, Jun 23 (CNA) Cypriot non-governmental organisations (NGOs) will need to play a greater role in the society, pledged Director General of the Research and Development Center Andreas Theophanous.

He was addressing a conference in Nicosia on Monday night, organised by the Research and Development Centre of Intercollege and the Cyprus Institute of European and International Affairs. on the role of NGO's and civil society in an enlarged Europe.

Theophanous said that while the role of NGOs and civil society in Cyprus has generally been limited, the aspiration for a united Cyprus to serve as a model state of pluralism in the EU means that Cypriot NGOs on both sides will need to play a greater role and ''rise to the greatest challenge in their history''.

Artemis Yordamli, the Executive Director of the Cyprus Conservation Foundation, emphasized the difficulties of successfully effecting change through NGO activities in the traditionally state centered system in Cyprus.

Yordamli stated that, ''it has taken ten years for the Cyprus governmental structure merely to accept the presence of NGOs, but until we are invited to take place in the decision making process we cannot really say we are partners''.

The conference stressed that similar issues regarding the limitations NGOs face in raising concerns to their governments are also characteristic in the Turkish-Cypriot community.

Turkish-Cypriot leader of the Patriotic Unity Movement Alpay Durduran noted that while Turkey has set up NGOs in the Turkish occupied north of Cyprus in the past, the fact that they have been state financed has inevitably meant state control of their activities.

Durduran also expressed that legitimate NGOs were an altogether new concept for Turkish-Cypriots.

Although underlining the importance of intercommunal NGOs for civil society throughout all of Cyprus, Durduran claimed that ''when we try to form intercommunal NGOs we find more difficulty than solidarity'', a phenomenon that Greek-Cypriot speakers also agreed has been due to an overall lack of resources and trained personnel among NGO groups in both Cypriot communities on the island. CNA LG/EC/2003 ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY

[02] Cyprus Stock Exchange

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Cyprus Stock Exchange

Nicosia, Jun 24 (CNA) - The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) All Share
Index closed at today's stock exchange meeting as follows:

CSE General Index                               85,26    (-0,13)

Traded Value                  CYP    597.547

FTSE/CYSE 20                  CYP     86.589   349,53   ( 0,30)
FTSE Med 100**                         5.208        0   (-1,21)

Sectoral Indices

Banks                         CYP     63.280   101,13   ( 0,01)
Approved Investment
Companies                 CYP    385.834    72,70   ( 0,15)
Insurance Companies           CYP     10.776    14,25   ( 2,44)
Manufacturing Companies       CYP     10.932    55,81   ( 0,34)
Tourism Companies             CYP      8.610    87,81   ( 0,31)
Trading Companies             CYP     22.166    18,09   (-0,06)
Building and Cement Companies CYP     38.343    65,64   (-2,71)
Énformation Technology
Companies                 CYP      1.114     2,73   (-0,73)
Financial Services Companies  CYP      7.849    13,62   ( 0,00)
Fish Culture Companies        CYP          0    10,37  (  3,70)
Hotels                        CYP      5.341    41,53   ( 0,14)
Other Companies               CYP     25.356    78,66   (-0,17)

* The third column presents the percentage variation of

[03] Italian official to visit Cyprus

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Italian official to visit Cyprus

[04] President Papadopoulos announces additional measures for T/C

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President Papadopoulos announces additional measures for T/C

Nicosia, Jun 24 (CNA) Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos has announced three measures aimed at making the movement of Turkish Cypriots to the southern government controlled areas of the Republic easier.

These concern the abolition of a 15 pound fine by both Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots for late registering of births, allowing lorries carrying goods to cross from the occupied areas to the free areas and extending the duration of car insurance for Turkish Cypriots entering the southern government controlled part of the island.

[05] Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

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Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

Nicosia, Jun 24 (CNA) - Today's weather and temperatures for Cyprus,
according to the Meteorological Service at Larnaca International
Airport are:

Temperatures (degrees Celcius)
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Station               Maximum     Minimum       Weather
(At 1200 UTC)
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Nicosia                37           22         FINE
Larnaca                35           20         FINE
Limassol               32           21         FINE
Paphos                 29           19         FINE

[06] Hellas Jet inaugurates regular flights

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Hellas Jet inaugurates regular flights

Nicosia, Jun 24 (CNA) - With a flight from Athens to Brussels, Cyprus Airways' subsidiary company Hellas Jet, based at Eleftherios Venizelos airport in Athens, began operating today.

[07] Maurer arrives in Cyprus for talks

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Maurer arrives in Cyprus for talks

Nicosia, Jun 24 (CNA) - European Union chief negotiator with Cyprus Leopold Maurer arrives in Cyprus this afternoon for talks, heading a multi-member delegation.

During his stay on the island until Jun 27, Maurer will meet with Cyprus' Accession Coordinator Takis Hadjidemetriou, Minister of Finance Markos Kyprianou and Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Yiorgos Lillikas.

[08] Iacovou: Denktash may attempt resumption of talks

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Iacovou: Denktash may attempt resumption of talks

Nicosia, Jun 24 (CNA) - Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs Georgios Iacovou said today the government ''is evaluating the possibility that Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash may attempt a repeat of talks to solve the Cyprus problem in order to gain 'votes' in the forthcoming so-called 'parliamentary elections' in the Turkish occupied areas of the Republic and ruin the negotiations immediately afterwards''.

[09] Robles to arrive in Cyprus tomorrow

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Robles to arrive in Cyprus tomorrow

by Maria Koniotou

Strasbourg, Jun 24 (CNA) - Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Alvaro Gil Robles arrives in Cyprus tomorrow for a visit, during which he will attempt to meet with Greek Cypriots enclaved in the Turkish occupied areas of the Republic.

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