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Cyprus News Agency: News in English (PM), 01-11-16
CONTENTS
[01] US Ambassador: The US would support a Clerides-Dentkash meeting
[01] Belgian Senators: Annexation would alienate Turkey from EU
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[01] US Ambassador: The US would support a Clerides-Dentkash meeting
Nicosia, Nov 16 (CNA) -- Washington is very focused and committed to try
and get a just and durable solution to the Cyprus problem and considers
that the road to that lies with the UN Secretary General's good offices
mission, US Ambassador to Cyprus Donald Bandler said here today, adding
that the US would support a meeting between President of the Republic
Glafcos Clerides and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, that would take
place within the framework of UN Secretary General's good offices mission.
Invited to say how the US face Turkish Premier's threats for annexation of
Turkish occupied Cyprus to mainland Turkey, Bandler said that the US did
not think it was "particularly useful for any of the parties to react to
possible future developments", adding that the US hope "that all parties
would be very concentrated on the task to get a settlement", that would be
"good for Cyprus, the grecoturkish developments, good for Greece and Turkey
and the EU."
"We favour UN Secretary General's good offices mission and in that context
if there is an agreement between the two gentlemen (President Clerides and
Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash) to meet as part of the good offices
mission we would support it," Bandler said after a meeting he had today
with Social Democrats Movement leader Yiannakis Omirou.
CNA/AAR/MK/2001
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[02] Belgian Senators: Annexation would alienate Turkey from EU
Nicosia, Nov 16 -- Belgian Senators Philippe Monfils and Roelants Du Vivier,
on a five-day visit to Cyprus, said here today that Cyprus will join the EU,
irrelevantly of the settlement of its political problem and described
Turkey's attitude and threats for annexation of the island's Turkish
occupied areas to mainland Turkey as "unproductive" noting that annexation
would alienate Turkey from its European orientation.
Speaking through an interpreter during a press conference the two Ķenators,
who leave the island tomorrow, stressed that even if the Turkish side
accepts now the resumption of talks on the Cyprus question, Cyprus
accession to the EU will not be retarded nor will its harmonization process
start from the beginning.
The two Belgian Senators are here at the request of Belgian Foreign
Minister Louis Michele, to draw up a report on the Cyprus question and
Cyprus harmonisation progress by which as they said they will ask Belgium,
which currently holds EU rotating Presidency, and the EU to contribute
efforts for a comprehensive settlement in Cyprus.
CNA/MK/NMA/2001
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