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Cyprus News Agency: News in English (AM), 00-03-21
CONTENTS
[01] President - State visit to Israel
[02] AKEL - Movement of Patriotic Unity
[03] Cyprus Stock Exchange
[04] Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus
[01] President - State visit to Israel
Nicosia, Mar 21 (CNA) – Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides will pay a
four-day state visit to Israel during which he will have meetings with
Israeli President Ezer Weizman, Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Ehud
Barak and Foreign Minister David Levy.
President Clerides will also visit Ramallah and meet Chairman Yasser
Arafat.
The Cypriot President, heading a multi-member delegation, leaves for Israel
on Tuesday, 28 March, but the official welcoming ceremony will take place
the following morning at Weizman's residence and will then visit the
Knesset (Parliament) to meet Speaker Avraham Burg.
CNA MM/GP/2000
[02] AKEL - Movement of Patriotic Unity
Nicosia, Mar 21 (CNA) -- Two Cypriot parties, one Greek Cypriot and one
Turkish Cypriot, agree that the Cyprus problem should be solved by peaceful
means on the basis of UN resolutions and high level agreements the two
sides signed in the 1970s.
The left-wing main opposition party AKEL and the Turkish Cypriot Movement
of Patriotic Unity (MPU) also backed substantive talks and gave their
support to bicommunal contacts.
CNA MM/GP/2000
[03] Cyprus Stock Exchange
Nicosia, Mar 21 CNA) -- The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) All Share Index
closed at today's stock exchange meeting as follows:
CSE General Index 502.80 ( -1.13)
Traded Value CYP 17,641,480
Sectural Indices
Banks CYP 7,282,282 628.81 ( -0.19)
Approved Investment
Companies CYP 758,007 367.48 ( -2.52)
Insurance Companies CYP 421,298 337.01 ( -1.48)
Manufacturing Companies CYP 557,942 156.55 ( -0.48)
Tourism Companies CYP 1,313,538 383.20 ( -2.59)
Trading Companies CYP 1,062,019 202.60 ( -1.82)
Other Companies CYP 5,325,023 521.75 ( -3.72)
Offshore Companies $ 105,00 ( 0,00)
The third column presents the percentage variation of the indices as
compared to the last meeting.
CNA GP/2000
[04] Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus
Nicosia, Mar 21 (CNA) -- Today's weather and temperatures for Cyprus,
according to the Meteorological Service at Larnaca International Airport
are:
Temperatures (degrees Celcius)
Station Maximum Minimum Weather
(At 1200 UTC)
Nicosia 18 5 FAIR
Larnaca 18 7 FAIR
Limassol 17 8 FAIR
Paphos 17 6 FAIR
CNA GP/2000
ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY
CNA ENDS
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