Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 02-09-24

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CONTENTS

[01] Cyprus expresses &ampquotdeep concern" over Middle East

[02] Chief EU negotiator on European tour

[03] Cyprus Stock Exchange

[04] PACE recommends measures against Turkey

[05] Greek Deputy National Defence Minister to visit Cyprus

[06] Cypriot deputies in Geneva for IPU special session

[07] Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

[08] UN peace talks continue

[09] AKEL and RTK call for Cyprus settlement

[10] Justice Minister resigns

[11] Distinguished jurist Andreas Loizou dies

[12] Justice Minister resigns (2)

[13] Kasoulides calls for implementation of UN resolutions on Iraq

[14] PACE discusses implementation of ECHR decisions by Turkey

[01] Cyprus expresses &ampquotdeep concern" over Middle East

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Cyprus expresses "deep concern" over situation in Middle East

by Apostolis Zoupaniotis

United Nations, Sep 24 (CNA) -- Cyprus' Ambassador to the UN Sotos Zakhaeos has expressed "deep concern" over the siege of the headquarters of the Palestinian leader and condemned once more terrorist attacks and suicide bombings.

In his address at an open discussion at the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, he said Cyprus shares the international community's belief that there can be no military solution or an imposed settlement in the Middle East conflict.

[02] Chief EU negotiator on European tour

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Chief EU negotiator on European tour

Nicosia, Sep 24 (CNA) -- Cyprus' accession negotiations, as these are drawing to a close, will be the focus of meetings the country's chief negotiator with the European Union George Vasiliou will have in European capitals.

Vasiliou leaves Wednesday for Brussels to participate in a closed seminar on Cyprus, organised jointly by the research centres Brookings Institute and CEPS and the University of Lehigh.

He will then go to Warsaw to attend a meeting of ministers responsible for European affairs from the ten candidate countries, expected to be invited to join. The meeting takes place on 25 September and it will deal with developments in membership talks.

Vasiliou will return to Brussels for meetings between the EU and Cyprus on agriculture, internal auditing and budget.

At the weekend, he will attend a meeting of Cyprus' ambassadors accredited to EU member states to draft future strategy and on 30 September he will participate in a meeting of the Intergovernmental Conference for Cyprus accession.

He returns to Cyprus on October 1.

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[03] Cyprus Stock Exchange

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Cyprus Stock Exchange

Nicosia, Sep 24 (CNA) - The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) All Share
Index closed at today's stock exchange meeting as follows:

CSE General Index                               84,17   (-1,07)

Traded Value                  CYP    359.442

FTSE/CYSE 20                  CYP    212.653   329,63   (-1,73)

Sectoral Indices

Banks                         CYP    143.245    91,52   (-1,54)
Approved Investment
Companies                 CYP     31.551    79,72   (-0,65)
Insurance Companies           CYP      1.665    20,16   (-0,89)
Manufacturing Companies       CYP      8.692    62,39   ( 0,18)
Tourism Companies             CYP      9.532   106,13   (-1,90)
Trading Companies             CYP     11.496    18,76   (-0,85)
Building and Cement Companies CYP      3.157    58,39   (-0,66)
Énformation Technology
Companies                 CYP      6.556     3,65   (-1,35)
Financial Services Companies  CYP      3.699    13,56   ( 0,07)
Fish Culture Companies        CYP        401    15,44   ( 3,35)
Hotels                        CYP     47.071    47,14   (-1,19)
Other Companies               CYP     57.106    79,22   (-1,26)

* The third column presents the percentage variation of

[04] PACE recommends measures against Turkey

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PACE recommends measures against Turkey

By Nikos Markides

Strasbourg, Sep 24 (CNA) -- The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has called on the Committee of Ministers to consider seizure of Turkey's contribution to the Council and imposing a daily fine on Ankara, if the Turkish government continues to refuse to comply with a European Court of Human Rights decision, with regard to a human rights case a Greek Cypriot brought before the Court against Turkey.

Expressing ''grave concern'' about Turkey's continued refusal to respect the judgments of the Court, and in particular in the case of Titina Loizidou, the Assembly asked Ankara to pay without delay and warned that if there is no compliance with the Court decision, it will consider the repercussions of this refusal at its April session, next year.

The Assembly has also urged Turkey to adopt concrete measures with regard to the Court judgment in the interstate application of Cyprus against Turkey and to stop ongoing human rights violations of Greek Cypriots in the areas it occupies since its troops invaded the island in 1974.

Following last night's long discussion, the Assembly adopted a resolution and a recommendation in which it reiterates its calls on the Turkish authorities to ensure rapidly that ''concrete measures are adopted in the case of Cyprus v Turkey, notably to deal with the problems of missing persons in a manner respecting the Convention (European Convention on Human Rights) and to stop the ongoing violations of the rights of the Greek Cypriots in northern Cyprus''.

[05] Greek Deputy National Defence Minister to visit Cyprus

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Greek Deputy National Defence Minister to visit Cyprus

[06] Cypriot deputies in Geneva for IPU special session

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Cypriot deputies in Geneva for IPU special session

Nicosia, Sep 24 (CNA) -- The Cyprus parliament will take part in the 171st Special Session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to be held in Geneva from September 25-27.

[07] Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

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Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

Nicosia, Sep 24 (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                  32          17          FINE
Larnaca                  29          20          FINE
Limassol                 29          19          FINE
Paphos                   28          18          FINE

[08] UN peace talks continue

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UN peace talks continue

Nicosia, Sep 24 (CNA) -- Another meeting, of just over two hours, took place today in the context of the UN-led peace talks, between President Glafcos Clerides and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash.

The meeting, in the presence of UN Secretary General's special adviser on Cyprus Alvaro de Soto and the advisers of the two leaders, is the last but one before the talks move to New York, for next week's encounters. Another meeting is scheduled for Thursday.

[09] AKEL and RTK call for Cyprus settlement

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AKEL and RTK call for Cyprus settlement

Nicosia, Sep 24 (CNA) - Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot political party leaders outlined the necessity for a Cyprus settlement before the island's accession to the European Union.

[10] Justice Minister resigns

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Justice Minister resigns

Nicosia, Sep 24 (CNA) - Justice and Public Order Minister, Nicos Koshis, submitted his resignation today.

In a statement, Koshis says he submitted his ''written resignation to the President of the Republic from the post of Justice and Public Order Minister, with a request that he will accept it'' and notes: ''My decision is final and irrevocable.

[11] Distinguished jurist Andreas Loizou dies

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Distinguished jurist Andreas Loizou dies

Nicosia, Sep 24 (CNA) - Distinguished Cypriot jurist Andreas Loizou passed away here today at the age of 76.

[12] Justice Minister resigns (2)

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Justice Minister resigns (2)

Nicosia, Sep 24 (CNA) - Justice and Public Order Minister, Nicos Koshis, told CNA that his resignation is final and irrevocable.

Koshis further said he submitted his resignation to President of the Republic Glafcos Clerides this afternoon with the request that he will accept it.

Invited by CNA to explain the reasons that led to his resignation, Koshis replied ''it is up to the President of the Republic if he wants to refer to the reasons''.

In a written statement, Koshis said he thanked the President of the Republic ''for trusting me all these years during my term as Minister''.

[13] Kasoulides calls for implementation of UN resolutions on Iraq

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Kasoulides calls for implementation of UN resolutions on Iraq

Nicosia, Sep 24 (CNA) - Minister of Foreign Affairs Ioannis Kasoulides said today that Cyprus supports the implementation of all UN resolutions on Iraq, without prejudice.

Earlier today, Britain's High Commissioner to Cyprus, Lyn Parker, handed Kasoulides a Foreign Office dossier including evidence and facts about Iraq's programmes to acquire weapons of mass destruction. A letter accompanied the dossier from British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.

[14] PACE discusses implementation of ECHR decisions by Turkey

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PACE discusses implementation of ECHR decisions by Turkey

by Nicos Markides

Strasbourg, Sep 24 (CNA) - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will be ''fundamentally undermined'' if Turkey continues not to implement the decisions of the Court, Dutch Rapporteur and member of the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee Eric Jurgens said in Strasbourg, presenting a report for the implementation ECHR decisions by Turkey.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) decided that, despite the progress recently achieved in Turkey, a number of important problems remain outstanding, as the modalities of payment of just satisfaction of the applicants, the means of redress available to convicted after an unfair trial and the restoration of the civil and political rights of persons whose criminal convictions violated the Convention of Human Rights.

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