Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 96-10-11

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CONTENTS

[01] Aftershock activity develops smoothly

[02] EU-Cyprus transport talks continue next week

[03] Cyprus Stock Exchange

[04] British MPs to hold conference on Cyprus in the UK

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[01] Aftershock activity develops smoothly

However, life has returned to normal despite yesterday's rumours about an imminent earthquake that sent people out into the streets.

Some 300 aftershocks were registered since Wednesday's tremor and on Thursday afternoon, within the space of two hours, the Department recorded 14 aftershocks between three and four points on the Richter scale.

Police have completed counting the damage caused by the quake, whose epicentre was some 50 kilometres south west of Paphos, on the western coast. Paphos and Limassol district bore the brunt of the damage.

Twelve uninhabited houses in Paphos collapsed and another eleven were damaged beyond repair. A badly damaged block of flats was evacuated and many houses, churches and other buildings suffered cracks.

A block of flats was also evacuated in Limassol, on the southern coast, while eight blocks, three hotels and 53 houses sustained minor damage and 14 shops major damage.

Barely 24 hours after the earthquake, Paphos and Limassol were hit by gale force winds and hail storms which caused chaos in communications and flooded many roads.

In Nicosia, in the centre of the island, 113 houses and flats were slightly damaged and minor damage was recorded in other areas.

CNA MM/RG/1996

ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY

1230 :CYPPRESS:02

[02] EU-Cyprus transport talks continue next week

Kinnock and Barrett, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, arrive on Wednesday and will have extensive discussions on transport on Thursday as part of the EU-Cyprus structured dialogue ahead of membership talks.

Present at the talks will be Cyprus Minister of Communications and Works Adamos Adamides, Foreign Minister Alecos Michaelides, who oversees the EU-Cyprus dialogue, and other government officials.

Cyprus and the EU last held talks on transport matters in Brussels in 1995.

Kinnock and Barrett will leave on Thursday for Malta for similar talks.

CNA MM/MA/1996

ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY

1810:CYPPRESS:03

[03] Cyprus Stock Exchange

CSE All Share Index                    84.48 (+0.64)

Sectural Indices

Banks                                  91.61 (+0.33)
Approved Investment Companies          75.11 (-0.37)
Insurance Companies                    62.75 (+0.10)
Industrial Companies                   83.95 (+1.79)
Tourist Industries                     75.27 (-0.29)
Commercial Companies                   69.98 (+2.10)
Other Companies                        81.66 (+1.95)

Trading Volume                         CYP 682670.114

CNA MCH/1996

ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY

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[04] British MPs to hold conference on Cyprus in the UK

Speaking after a meeting with President Glafcos Clerides this evening, British Labour MP Alan Meale expressed the intention ''to hold a very large conference in Britain with parliamentarians from the US, EU countries and the UK.''

He expressed the desire that ''such a conference also to be held in the US, in the near future, so that parliamentarians and major politicians will start to get a grip on this whole issue, to try and force a solution.''

Meale stressed that the international community has to ''show Turkey that they are isolated and they have to come in from the cold.''

Expressing disappointment because yet another year has passed without the reunification of the island, Meale also expressed anger over the brutal murders of Tasos Isaac and Solomos Solomou by Turkish occupation troops and extremists, during a peaceful demonstration last August, and the killings of National Guardsmen in the buffer zone by Turkish soldiers.

''We are angry with Turkey for refusing to actually get on with carrying out the UN resolutions and clearly not using the influence they have with Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash to try and have a solution'', Meale said.

Also speaking after the meeting, Labour MP Ian Twinn said that by their presence here, British MPs wish to ''show that we stand with all Cypriots from both communities for a free Cyprus where all Cypriots can live together again.''

''Particularly this weekend we are thinking of Morphou'', he stressed, noting that the residents of this northern occupied town, who have all become refugees since the 1974 Turkish invasion of the island, ''can see their homes but they can't go there.''

''We will do everything we can to make sure that pressure is put on from around the world within Europe and on our colleagues in the US especially, so that Turkey understands that it can't have good relations if it denies human rights here in Cyprus and in the Aegean as well'', Twinn concluded.

CNA MCH/AP/1996

ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY

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