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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 08-07-13
CONTENTS
[01] PRESIDENT CHRISTOFIAS UN SECRETARY GENERAL - MEETING
[02] PARIS UNION FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN
[01] PRESIDENT CHRISTOFIAS UN SECRETARY GENERAL - MEETING
Cyprus President Demetris Christofias currently in Paris to attend the
Summit for the Mediterranean will meet on Sunday morning UN Secretary
General Ban Ki moon, to discuss developments in efforts to solve the
Cyprus problem.
President Christofias will also have a meeting with his Syrian
counterpart Bachar Al-Assad.
Foreign Minister Marcos Kyprianou and Government Spokesman Stephanos
Stephanou accompany President Christofias to Paris.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkish troops invaded and
occupied 37% of its territory. On July 25, President Christofias will
meet with Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, for the fourth time
after Christofias election as President of Cyprus in February 2008, to
review the work done by the technical committees and working groups set
up by the two sides, with a view to prepare the ground for the
beginning of direct fully-fledged negotiations.
[02] PARIS UNION FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN
France will host on Sunday the Paris Summit for the Mediterranean which
is the inaugural summit for the launching of the proposed Union for the
Mediterranean, with a view to give a fresh impetus to the Barcelona
Process.
Launched a little over a year ago by the French Head of State Nicolas
Sarkozy, the Union for the Mediterranean project, which aims to
strengthen and deepen the cooperation between both sides of the
Mediterranean, will be officially inaugurated today at the Paris Summit
for the Mediterranean. The will bring together 43 European and
Mediterranean States, the Community institutions and the regional
organisations. Cyprus will be represented by its President Demetris
Christofias. Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi has already rejected the
proposal to set up the Union saying that it would be an ``international
minefield`` as it would increase illegal immigration, terrorism and
extremism.
The Union for the Mediterranean project is based on three simple
principles: a political mobilisation at the highest level through
Summits of Heads of State and Government every two years, a governance
on an equal footing, in the form of a North-South co-presidency and a
permanent secretariat with equal representation, a prioritising of
concrete projects with a regional dimension that create de facto
solidarity.
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