Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 02-09-29

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CONTENTS

[01] European Heritage Days in Cyprus

[02] Peace march underway to protest British antenna

[03] Greek Deputy Defence Minister arrives in Cyprus

[04] Ìarch to protest British antenna ends peacefully

[05] UK and EU to decide on Cyprus based on Helsinki decisions

[01] European Heritage Days in Cyprus

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European Heritage Days in Cyprus

Nicosia, Sep 29 (CNA) - The European Heritage Days in Cyprus are being held today with the theme ''Nicosia Within the Walls, a Multicultural Dialogue''.

Organised by the Ministry of the Interior and the Department of Town Planning and Housing, and under the auspices of the Council of Europe, there will be walks throughout the old part of Nicosia, which will include well known but also unknown monuments, some of which are usually closed to the public, and restored houses.

[02] Peace march underway to protest British antenna

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Peace march underway to protest British antenna

Limassol, Sep 29 (CNA) - The seventh peace march is taking place today to protest plans by Britain to erect a massive telecommunications antenna in the British Bases on the island. The march, organised by the Pancyprian Peace Council, is also protesting the continuing Turkish occupation of Cyprus' northern areas, the slaughter of Palestinian people and US designs to attack Iraq.

[03] Greek Deputy Defence Minister arrives in Cyprus

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Greek Deputy Defence Minister arrives in Cyprus

Paphos, Sep 29 (CNA) - Greece's Deputy National Defence Minister, Lazaros Lotides, arrived in Cyprus today on a C130 military plane, heading a multimember delegation, on the occasion of the anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Cyprus.

Speaking on arrival at ''Andreas Papandreou'' military airbase in the western coastal town of Paphos, Lotides stressed the need to prove and promote in every way the cooperation of Greece and Cyprus in their common goals to reach a settlement of the Cyprus problem and for the island to accede to the European Union.

[04] Ìarch to protest British antenna ends peacefully

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Ìarch to protest British antenna ends peacefully

Limassol, Sep 29 (CNA) - The seventh peace march, organised by the Pancyprian Peace Council, ended with no incidents today. The march was protesting plans by Britain to erect a massive telecommunications antenna in the British Bases on the island, the continuing Turkish occupation of Cyprus' northern areas, the slaughter of Palestinian people and US designs to attack Iraq.

Addressing the demonstrators, House of Representatives President Demetris Christofias said the British authorities should have complied with EU instructions ''to abandon the current installations at the Akrotiri Salt Lake and hand over the very important wetland to Cyprus and its people''.

[05] UK and EU to decide on Cyprus based on Helsinki decisions

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UK and EU to decide on Cyprus based on Helsinki decisions

by Kyriacos Tsioupras

London, Sep 29 (CNA) - The main factor to be taken into account by the UK and the EU in their decision concerning Cyprus' accession to the Union will be the 1999 Helsinki European Council's decisions, British Minister for Europe Peter Hain has said.

Replying in writing to a question by Labour MP Andrew Love, Hain stressed that the EU had decided in Helsinki that a political settlement of the Cyprus issue would facilitate its accession to the Union.

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