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Cyprus News Agency: News in English (AM), 00-02-01
CONTENTS
[01] British EuroMP - Cyprus question - Letters
[02] President Clerides - De Soto - Meeting
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[01] British EuroMP - Cyprus question - Letters
Nicosia, Feb 1 (CNA) - British EuroMP Theresa Villiers has written to
Prime Minister Tony Blair and President of the European Parliament Nicole
Fontaine calling on them to step up efforts and show more political will
for a settlement in Cypru s, in view of the second round of peace talks
that opened in Geneva yesterday.
In her letters, dated January 27 and released today, Villiers urges
them to call upon the Turkish side to abandon its intransigence in efforts
for a settlement in Cyprus, especially after the European Union Helsinki
summit which granted Turkey a can didate status and decided the Cyprus
Republic can join its ranks even if a settlement is not reached.
CNA MA/GP/2000
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[02] President Clerides - De Soto - Meeting
By Maria Myles
Geneva, Feb 1 (CNA) - Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides today made
it clear that one side does not know what the other is discussing in their
separate talks with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan or his special adviser
for Cyprus Alvaro de Soto, within the framework of the second round of
talks that opened in Geneva Monday.
President Clerides was speaking after a 90-minute meeting with de Soto
during which they continued the discussion that had begun in the first
round of talks held in New York, on the four core issues of the Cyprus
problem, namely territory, security, property and distribution of powers.
CNA MM/MA/GP/2000
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