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CONTENTS

[01] President Clerides - UN envoy

[02] President Clerides - Greek Foreign Minister

[03] Cyprus talks - Resumption - 12 September

[04] Cyprus Stock Exchange

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[01] President Clerides - UN envoy

The UN envoy declined to make any statement to the press after the Presidential Palace meeting. He rushed to cross to the Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus to meet Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash.

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[02] President Clerides - Greek Foreign Minister

"The Republic's accession course is on a good track," the minister said, after a meeting with President Glafcos Clerides and added that he discussed recent developments in Cyprus and EU matters.

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[03] Cyprus talks - Resumption - 12 September

Speaking at a press conference, he told a packed room at the Ledra Palace hotel, in the UN buffer zone, that on behalf of the Secretary-General, he had conveyed to "HE Mr Glafkos Clerides, the Greek Cypriot leader and HE Mr Rauf Denktash, the Turkish Cypriot leader, an invitation to resume the search for a comprehensive settlement to the Cyprus problem, under the Secretary-General's auspices."

Mr de Soto said it was the hope of the UN that "a new and re-invigorated phase of the Secretary-General/s good offices will begin with separate meetings of the Secretary-General with the two leaders on 12 September 2001, in New York."

He noted that no date had been foreseen for adjournment of the talks "that we hope will begin" on 12 September.

"What we hope is that in the days following the meeting with the Secretary- General, the two leaders would hold separate working meetings with me, as they have done in the past, on the substantive issues that must be addresssed as part of a comprehensive settlement."

The Peruvian diplomat said the Secretary-General was "widely supported" in his hope to see "an intense period of work in the time ahead as part of a continuous process."

The Secretary-General, he added, "very much wants" to be in a position to report progress on the issues of substance before the end of this year. "This is without prejudice to the guiding principle that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed," he concluded his opening statement.

UN-led proximity talks were interrupted last year when Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, backed by Ankara, withdrew from the peace process, demanding recognition of his self-styled regime in Turkish occupied Cyprus.

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[04] Cyprus Stock Exchange

CSE General Index                              142,53  (-2,22)

Traded Value                  CYP  3.673.194

FTSE/CYSE 20                  CYP  1.917.668   552,16  (-1,76)

Sectoral Indices

Banks                         CYP    795.201   149,74  (-0,83)Approved
Investment
    Companies                 CYP    172.223   151,55  (-2,59)
Insurance Companies           CYP     18.624    44,50  (-2,15)
Manufacturing Companies       CYP    116.662    54,97  (-2,60)
Tourism Companies             CYP    238.254   136,95  (-3,64)
Trading Companies             CYP    161.795    36,05  (-2,54)
Building and Cement Companies CYP     23.381    55,29  (-3,83)
Énformation Technology
    Companies                 CYP    224.269    12,41  (-1,97)
Financial Services Companies  CYP    510.742    29,19  (-2,67)
Fish Culture Companies        CYP      6.071    39,12  ( 0,00)
Hotels                        CYP    530.649    91,31  (-4,43)
Other Companies               CYP    687.337   174,89  (-2,71)

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