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Cyprus News Agency: News in English (AM), 00-07-21
CONTENTS
[01] President Clerides - US officials
[02] UN Secretary-General - UNFICYP - Turkish Cypriot measures
[03] Cyprus - UN - Protest over Turkish violations
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[01] President Clerides - US officials
Nicosia, Jul 21 (CNA) - US Acting Assistant Secretary of State James
Dobbins today expressed the hope he can play a supporting role in the
Cyprus talks that are taking place since last December and will resume in
Geneva on Monday.
Dobbins, accompanied by National Security Council Director Antony Blinken
and State Department European advisor Laura Miller, was speaking after a
meeting with Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides, who briefed them on Cyprus
developments.
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[02] UN Secretary-General - UNFICYP - Turkish Cypriot measures
Nicosia, Jul 21 (CNA) - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has written to the
Security Council president, asking for the body's support in handling
measures taken by the illegal regime in the Turkish-occupied areas of
Cyprus against the peace-keeping force here (UNFICYP) and a new checkpoint
the Turkish army has set up in the village of Strovilia, which changes the
military status quo in the area.
In his letter to Mignonette Patricia Durrant, dated July 20, Annan says the
restrictions "have adversely affected UNFICYP's operational effectiveness.
Response times have increased and command, administrative and logistic
movements lengthened significantly" and asks for the status quo ante to be
restored in Strovilia, in southeast cyprus.
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[03] Cyprus - UN - Protest over Turkish violations
Nicosia, Jul 21 (CNA) - Cyprus has strongly protested to UN Secretary-
General the repeated violations of the Republic's airspace by Turkish
military planes over the past week, despite an appeal by the UN to the two
sides to be restrained during events marking the 1974 Turkish invasion of
the island, in view of the on-going peace talks.
In a letter to Kofi Annan, Cyprus' permanent representative to the UN Sotos
Zackheos also dismisses allegations by his Turkish colleague that the
Cyprus National Guard has gone ahead with rearmament activities, describing
them as an attempt to pre-empt any reactions from the Cyprus government and
provide an alibi to actions by its occupation forces illegally stationed on
the island.
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