Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 03-07-29

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CONTENTS

[01] Schwimmer: Council can contribute to implement UN plan

[02] Cyprus Stock Exchange

[03] Famagusta Municipality hands resolution to UN, EU

[04] Cyprus participates in EU operation ''Artemis''

[01] Schwimmer: Council can contribute to implement UN plan

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Schwimmer: Council can help contribute to implement UN plan

by Maria Myles

Nicosia, Jul 29 (CNA) -- The Secretary General of the Council of Europe Walter Schwimmer has said the Council is willing to contribute to the implementation of a UN peace plan for a comprehensive settlement in Cyprus and warned against returning to ''square one'' in the negotiations, stressing that the window of opportunity for a solution will remain open until May 2004, when Cyprus joins the European Union.

In an interview with CNA, he said the European Court of Human Rights is evaluating all new facts with regard to the possibility of accepting as domestic remedies so-called courts, set up in Turkish occupied Cyprus by the Turkish Cypriot illegal regime of Rauf Denktash.

Schwimmer has warned Turkey that compliance with the principles of the Council and Court rulings is a factor it needs to take seriously into consideration, if it wishes to see its European aspirations progress.

[02] Cyprus Stock Exchange

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Cyprus Stock Exchange

Nicosia, Jul 29 (CNA) - The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) All Share
Index closed at today's stock exchange meeting as follows:

CSE General Index                               84,82   (-0,40)

Traded Value                  CYP    340.456

FTSE/CYSE 20                  CYP    244.469   352,37   (-0,33)
FTSE Med 100                                 5.520,64   ( 1,40)

Sectoral Indices

Banks                         CYP    215.329   102,36   (-0,71)
Approved Investment
Companies                 CYP      4.940    72,79   (-0,51)
Insurance Companies           CYP      2.344    13,87   (-0,64)
Manufacturing Companies       CYP      6.817    54,52   (-0,06)
Tourism Companies             CYP      4.013    84,36   ( 0,29)
Trading Companies             CYP     11.272    18,58   ( 0,16)
Building and Cement Companies CYP     16.662    66,99   ( 0,42)
Énformation Technology
Companies                 CYP      6.743     2,69   ( 2,28)
Financial Services Companies  CYP      8.639    12,91   (-0,39)
Fish Culture Companies        CYP        000    10,89   ( 0,65)
Hotels                        CYP      4.899    39,45   (-0,53)
Other Companies               CYP     29.972    76,13   (-0,24)

* The third column presents the percentage variation of

[03] Famagusta Municipality hands resolution to UN, EU

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Famagusta Municipality hands resolution to UN, EU

Nicosia, Jul 29 (CNA) Famagusta Municipality called on the international community to take concerted action against Turkey and demand the withdrawal of Turkish occupation troops from Cyprus and a solution based on the UN decisions and resolutions.

In a resolution handed to the embassies of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, a representative of the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces in Cyprus and the Head of the European Commission's delegation in Cyprus, the Famagusta Municipality notes that Turkey is violating the principles of the UN Charter, its resolutions and decisions, the international law and European Convention on Human Rights by denying the people of Famagusta their basic human rights and democratic freedoms totally unchallenged.

It further notes that a great part of the city remains enclaved, surrounded by barbed wire for 29 years, wearing down to the level of complete destruction as a result.

[04] Cyprus participates in EU operation ''Artemis''

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Cyprus participates in EU operation Artemis

Nicosia, Jul 29 (CNA) Cyprus is participating in Operation ARTEMIS at operational Headquarters in Paris, having posted one senior military officer, along with other contributing countries, as part of its contributing to Common Foreign and Security Policy/European Security and Defense Policy (CFSP/ESDP) of the EU.

Operation ARTEMIS is the first EU autonomous military-led mission, which has deployed troops in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo.

The EU set up the force in responding to UN Security Council Resolution 1484 of 30 May 2003 establishing under Chapter VII of the UN Charter an interim emergency multinational force aimed at contributing to the stabilisation of the security conditions and the improvement of the humanitarian situation in Bunia.

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