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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 09-03-06
CONTENTS
[01] EP CONTACT GROUP WITH T/Cs - PRESS CONFERENCE
[02] CYPRUS - ``EDUCATION 2009`` EXHIBITION
[01] EP CONTACT GROUP WITH T/Cs - PRESS CONFERENCE
The climate that has been created in Cyprus is extremely more hopeful
than in the past and with the improvement of the climate a lot of
things that were not possible in the past are now beginning to become
real, European Parliament High-Level Contact Group for Relations with
the Turkish Cypriot Community in the northern part of Cyprus Deputy
Coordinator Mechtild Rothe told a press conference on Friday, at the
end of the Groups mission to Cyprus March 4-6.
This is the last mission of the Group to Cyprus in its current
composition, before the European Parliament elections to be held in
June. Speaking through an interpreter, Rothe said that a new Contact
Group will be formed after the elections and that many of the current
members of the Group will not participate to it as some of them will
not even run in the elections.
Rothe said their visit was very important and interesting and gave them
a lot of hope that things will be better in the future. We hope that in
the immediate future we will be able to come back to a reunited Cyprus,
where people from both sides will live united and will be EU citizens
and that both sides will be able to elect their representatives to the
European Parliament.
[02] CYPRUS - ``EDUCATION 2009`` EXHIBITION
Cyprus Commerce, Industry and Tourism Minister Antonis Paschalides has
said that the Cyprus government has been investing a significant amount
of money to further develop infrastructure in the field of education,
apart from adopting a stricter legal framework and creating mechanisms
for the evaluation and the certification of the level of tertiary
education.
Speaking during the inauguration ceremony of the 11th International
Exhibition Education 2009 held in Athens, Paschalides said that the
Cyprus Ministry of Education is currently working on a programme of
educational reform, aiming to build a modern and effective educational
system, that will be able to address the financial and other challenges
deriving from the globalization of many aspects of modern life.
Paschalides stressed that Cyprus has significant geographical,
economic, cultural and other advantages to become the ideal destination
for studies for students from Greek and other countries.
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