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Cyprus News Agency: News in English (PM), 01-04-06Cyprus News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Cyprus News Agency at <http://www.cyna.org.cy>CONTENTS
1550:CYPPRESS:01[01] Weather and Temperatures for CyprusNicosia, Apr 6 (CNA) - Today's weather and temperatures for Cyprus, according to the Meteorological Service at Larnaca International Airport are:
Temperatures (degrees Celcius)
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Station Maximum Minimum Weather
(At 1200 UTC)
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Nicosia 22 8 CLOUDY
Larnaca 22 9 FINE
Limassol 22 11 FINE
Paphos 20 13 FAIR
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CNA/ÌA/2001 1815:CYPPRESS:02[02] Foreign Minister - Washington - Cyprus problem - EUWashington, Apr 6 (CNA) -- Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides has said that the message Cyprus' accession to the European Union is imminent and inevitable with or without a settlement on the island, could be the only existing realistic, positive leverage that can be applied in order to bend the intransigent policy followed by Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash and Turkey in the Cyprus peace effort.Speaking yesterday at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington on "Cyprus: Reunification and membership in the EU" Kasoulides also said that once Cyprus joins the EU "its problem wil be under EU influence and its angles would be less acute ... and it would be less of a potential to create new problems of instability in the region or between Greece and Turkey." CNA DA/MK/MA/20011825:CYPPRESS:03[03] Larnaca - Desalination plant - InaugurationLarnaca, Apr 6 (CNA) -- President of the Republic Glafcos Clerides will inaugurate on April 23 the second desalination plant built on the island in order to tackle water scarcity.Israeli Foreign Minister Simon Peres will be among dignitaries attending the inauguration ceremony, at the invitation of Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment Costas Themistocleous who today inspected the construction works at the plant, near the International Airport in the eastern coastal town of Larnaca. CNA MAN/MK/MA/20011935:CYPPRESS:04[04] President of Chile - New Cyprus ambassador - CredentialsNicosia, Apr 6 (CNA) -- President of Chile Ricardo Lagos has expressed the view that Cyprus' bid to join the European Union could act as a leverage for a settlement on the island, divided since Turkish troops occupied 37 percent of its territory since 1974, and reiterated his country's solidarity to Cyprus and its support within the UN.Lagos was speaking at ceremony yesterday during which he received the credentials of the new Cyprus ambassador to his country, Athena Mavronicola, who briefed him on the latest developments in the Cyprus problem and Cyprus' bid to join the European Union. CNA MK/MA/20012000:CYPPRESS:05[05] President Clerides - Melkonian - Inauguration ceremonyNicosia, Apr 6 (CNA) -- The government of Cyprus acknowledges the important contribution the Armenian Community has made and is still making to the economic and cultural development of the island and wishes to reiterate that the doors of the government are always open to the representatives of the Armenian community, President of the Republic Glafcos Clerides has said here today.In a speach at the inauguration ceremony for the 75th anniversary of the Melkonian Educational Institute, an Armenian educational institute operating in Nicosia, read by Presidential Commissioner Manolis Christofides, the President also referred to the great importance the government attaches to developing closer relations with Armenia and noted that to this effect a number of general agreements of cooperation had been signed between the two countries. CNA MK/MA/2001ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCYCNA ENDSCyprus News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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