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Cyprus News Agency: News in English (PM), 01-04-06
CONTENTS
[01] Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus
[02] Foreign Minister - Washington - Cyprus problem - EU
[03] Larnaca - Desalination plant - Inauguration
[04] President of Chile - New Cyprus ambassador - Credentials
[05] President Clerides - Melkonian - Inauguration ceremony
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[01] Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus
Nicosia, 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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[02] Foreign Minister - Washington - Cyprus problem - EU
Washington, 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."
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[03] Larnaca - Desalination plant - Inauguration
Larnaca, 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/2001
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[04] President of Chile - New Cyprus ambassador - Credentials
Nicosia, 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/2001
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[05] President Clerides - Melkonian - Inauguration ceremony
Nicosia, 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.
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