Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 05-09-27

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From: The Cyprus News Agency at <http://www.cyna.org.cy>

CONTENTS

[01] Cyprus Stock Exchange

[02] Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

[03] IMO General Secretary: Cyprus is a great maritime power worldwide

[04] Boat sinks off occupied north of Cyprus, 33 missing

[05] Government respects right to education for T/C

[06] Cypriot spokesman rejects Talat’s statements

[07] Euro Parliament waives Cypriot MP’s immunity

[08] Cyprus wants an objective declaration by British Presidency

[01] Cyprus Stock Exchange

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Cyprus Stock Exchange

Nicosia, Sep 27 (CNA) -- The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) All Share
Index closed at today's stock exchange meeting as follows:

INDICES BASE VALUES: FTSEMed=5000, OTHERS=1000

TRADED VALUE                       919.310,18

GSE GENERAL INDEX                       97,80    -0,07    874.555,66
FTSE/CySE 20                           491,16    -0,17    639.294,02
MAIN MARKET INDEX                    1.468,54    -0,11    627.905,60
PARALLEL MARKET INDEX                1.056,98     0,43    119.224,86
INVESTMENT COMPANIES MARKET INDEX    1.138,52     0,46     34.692,70
MAIN AND PARALLEL MARKETS INDEX      1.453,38    -0,10    747.130,47
BANKS INDEX                          1.547,48    -0,12    571.471,83
HOTELS INDEX                         1.104,04    -1,86      6.420,11
ALTERNATIVE MARKET INDEX               978,26    -1,00    105.452,56
FTSE Med (26/9/2005)                 8.307,08     1,40

* The second column presents the percentage variation of the indices
as compared to the last meeting.

[02] Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

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Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

Nicosia, Sep 27 (CNA) - Today's weather and temperatures for Cyprus,
according to the Meteorological Service at Larnaca International
Airport are:

Temperatures (degrees Celcius)
---------------------------------------------------------------
Station               Maximum     Minimum       Weather
(At 1200 UTC)
---------------------------------------------------------------
Nicosia                 31          19          FAIR
Larnaca                 30          22          FINE
Limassol                31          20          FINE
Paphos                  30          20          FAIR
---------------------------------------------------------------

[03] IMO General Secretary: Cyprus is a great maritime power worldwide

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IMO General Secretary: Cyprus is a great maritime power worldwide

Nicosia, Sept 27 (CNA) --- The Republic of Cyprus is a great maritime power worldwide, General Secretary of the International Maritime Organisation Efthimios Mitropoulos stressed here today, adding that Cyprus has an excellent record of adopting and implementing international conventions that are drafted under the IMO auspices.

Mitropoulos, who is attending the ''Maritime Cyprus 2005'' Conference, noted that the Conference ''has established Cyprus as a big shipping power, which it is'', adding that ''Maritime Cyprus holds a leader position in the world shipping''.

[04] Boat sinks off occupied north of Cyprus, 33 missing

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Boat sinks off occupied north of Cyprus, 33 missing

Nicosia, Sep 27 (CNA) One person died and 33 are missing after a fishing boat carrying asylum seekers sank off the Turkish occupied northern coast of Cyprus.

According to the illegal police in the Turkish occupied north, the boat, believed to be carrying 37 asylum seekers and two-member crew, sank off some 3.5 km near Yalousa on the eastern tip of the occupied areas.

[05] Government respects right to education for T/C

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Government respects right to education for T/C

Nicosia, Sep 27 (CNA) Government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides, in a written statement on the opening of a Turkish Cypriot elementary school in the southern coastal town of Limassol, said today that the government has introduced special measures from the school year 2004-2005 aiming to upgrade the elementary education of Turkish Cypriots, Roma and other Turkish language people who live in the town.

The Spokesman said that these measures included the appointment of two Turkish Cypriot teachers at the 18th Elementary school to allow Turkish-speaking students to be taught in their mother tongue, their culture, religion and literature.

[06] Cypriot spokesman rejects Talat’s statements

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Cypriot spokesman rejects Talats statements

Nicosia, Sept 27 (CNA) Government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides has said that statements made by Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat to a Turkish news agency clearly indicate that he is following the same policy of his predecessor, Rauf Denktash.

Chrysostomides rejected Talats accusations that the Greek Cypriot side does not want a solution.

[07] Euro Parliament waives Cypriot MP’s immunity

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Euro Parliament waives Cypriot MPs immunity

by Constantina Dimitroulli

Strasbourg, Sept 27 (CNA) The European Parliament waived today the immunity of Cypriot Democratic Party Euro MP Marios Matsakis.

The plenary approved by a show of hands, a report by Rapporteur Klaus-Heiner Lehne on waiving the Euro MPs immunity.

Matsakis is implicated in two separate incidents, the first being a case of alleged blackmail of a police officer and the second the illegal possession of antiquities that allegedly came from the Turkish occupied north.

[08] Cyprus wants an objective declaration by British Presidency

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Cyprus wants an objective declaration by British Presidency

Nicosia, Sept 27 (CNA) The Cyprus government would like an objective declaration by the British Presidency of the European Union to be presented to Turkey on 3 October.

Government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides said today ''we would like the declaration to be objective and to respond to the principles in which the EU is based and the EU Council decisions".

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