Cyprus News Agency: News in English (AM), 01-07-27

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CONTENTS

[01] Missing persons - Process of exhumation - Greece

[02] UN - Turkish press - Cyprus talks

[03] Cyprus Foreign Minister - Syria - Visit

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by Maria Myles

Nicosia, Jul 27 (CNA) -- The transfer to Greece in the early 80s of exhumed remains, believed to belong to Greek nationals killed during the Turkish invasion of 1974, has given rise to increasing speculation that some of the remains do not belong to the persons initially thought they did.

"The problem we are now facing has to be dealt with immediately so that the process of identification of remains exhumed in the summer of 1999 can continue," Xenofon Kallis, member of the Working Group for the Exhumations, operating under the aegis of the Foreign Ministry, has told CNA in an interview.

CNA MM/GP/2001

ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY

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Nicosia, Jul 27 (CNA) -- The UN have no information to corroborate Turkish press reports to the effect that the Turkish side has been given assurances that what was discussed in the UN-led proximity talks so far will have no bearing on future talks on Cyprus.

"We have absolutely no information that could confirm this," Wlodzimierz Cibor, Senior Adviser with the UN peace-keeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) and Acting Chief of Mission has said, adding that he had not read the said reports.

CNA MM/GP/2001

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Nicosia, Jul 27 (CNA) -- Cyprus Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides will pay a three-day visit to Syria next week during which he will be received by President Bashar al Assad and Prime Minister Mustafa Miro.

Kasoulides will have talks in Damascus with his Syrian counterpart Farouk Al Shara, expected to focus on bilateral relations, the situation in the region and the Cyprus question.

CNA MM/GP/2001

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