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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 07-12-04
CONTENTS
[01] HOUSE PRESIDENT - UNSG`S REPORT
[02] CYPRUS PRESIDENT - ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
[03] CMP - MISSING - IDENTIFICATIONS
[01] HOUSE PRESIDENT - UNSG`S REPORT
The UN Secretary Generals report on the United Nations operation in
Cyprus and particularly his reference to the lifting of the so-called
isolation of the Turkish Cypriots is not satisfactory, House President
Demetris Christofias said.
Christofias expressed the belief that Security Council member states,
which did not accept the reference to the so-called isolation of the
Turkish Cypriots in the report of former UN Secretary General Kofi
Annan, will respond to the most recent report.
In statements at Larnaca airport, before leaving for Brussels where he
will have meetings with EU officials and commenting Ban Ki-moons
report, Christoifas said the report is not so satisfactory for Cyprus,
especially when the Secretary General reiterates his position on the
so-called isolation of the Turkish Cypriots and the lifting of the
so-called isolation.
[02] CYPRUS PRESIDENT - ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
The only effective method to deal with the problem of illegal
immigration in Cyprus is for the European Union to exercise pressure on
Turkey to accept programs for the re-entry of illegal immigrants, such
as the ones Cyprus implements with Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt,
Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos has said.
We face one of the most serious problems and the EU realises it and has
offered us many types of assistance, said the President, noting that
Cyprus, because of the continuing Turkish occupation, has to deal with
a large number of illegal immigrants who enter the country through the
occupied areas.
Turkey, he pointed out, does not accept them back as other countries
do.
[03] CMP - MISSING - IDENTIFICATIONS
Remains exhumed so far in Cyprus relate to over 350 individuals and
fifty-seven individuals have been identified so far and their remains
returned to their families, the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus
(CMP) said in a press release.
The Committee expressed its gratitude to the government of Ireland for
its second donation of EUR 50,000 in a year made in favour of the CMP
Project on the Exhumation, Identification and Return of Remains of
Missing Persons in Cyprus.
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