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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 06-07-13
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[01] SPOKESMAN - TURKEY - EU - VAROSHA
[01] SPOKESMAN - TURKEY - EU - VAROSHA
Cyprus Government Spokesman Christodoulos Pashiardis said here Thursday
that Nicosia promotes its proposal for the implementation of the EU
direct trade regulation with the Turkish Cypriots along with the return
of the fenced-off area of the occupied town of Varosha to its legal
inhabitants and the joint administration of the city`s port, stressing
that without the return of Varosha the direct trade regulation cannot
be implemented.
Replying to questions about a possible development on the direct trade
regulation, Pashiardis said that the government promotes its proposal,
because it deems that ``the acceptance of this proposal by Turkey
offers Turkey a way out, providing at the same time an optimistic
prospect for the Cyprus problem.``
Turkey is refusing to open its ports and airports to ships bearing the
Cypriot flag and to Cypriot aircrafts, asserting that the EU did not
meet its ``obligations`` for lifting the so-called ``isolation`` of the
Turkish Cypriots.
Pashiardis noted that the proposal`s implementation is up to Turkey and
not the EU, underlying that the proposal should be implemented as a
whole and not partially.
``For us it is inconceivable for the regulation to be confined only to
(the opening of) Varoshia`s port and not to the return of the city to
its legal inhabitants,`` Pashiardis said, noting that ``without the
return of the town the regulation cannot move forward.``
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