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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 06-07-17
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[01] BRYZA - CYPRUS - MEETINGS
[01] BRYZA - CYPRUS - MEETINGS
Matthew Bryza, US State Department`s Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State, who is paying a four-day visit to Cyprus, had here Monday a
series of contacts with Cypriot Foreign Ministry officials, Cyprus
House President, and the leader of the main Greek Cypriot opposition
party, during which he was briefed on the Greek Cypriot side`s views
and positions on the Cyprus problem.
Bryza, who arrived in Cyprus after visiting Ankara and Athens, met with
Foreign Ministry`s Permanent Secretary Sotos Zakheos and Director of
the Cyprus problem division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Erato
Kozakou Markoulli. Later he had separate meetings with House President
Demetris Christofias and main opposition party, DISI President Nicos
Anastasiades. Bryza will have Tuesday meetings with the Turkish Cypriot
leadership and will hold a press conference.
In statements after meeting Bryza, Christofias said that the US
official told him that US President George Bush has given him strict
instructions that the Greek Cypriots will, as expressed at the April
2004 referendum on the Annan plan, must be respected and that a
solution to the Cyprus question on the basis of a bi-communal bi-zonal
federation should be promoted and not a solution on the basis of a
confederation.
Christofias also said that Bryza assured him that there is no issue of
imposing the Annan plan or punishing the Greek Cypriots for rejecting
the plan, as far as the US is concerned.
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