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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 07-01-22
CONTENTS
[01] EU FMs - ADOPTION OF TEXT - CYPRUS - REGULATIONS
[02] FM - CYPRUS QUESTION
[01] EU FMs - ADOPTION OF TEXT - CYPRUS - REGULATIONS
ิhe EU General Affairs and External Relations Council, which met in
Brussels, adopted the following text as regards the implementation of
the Council Conclusions of April 2004:
With respect to the implementation of its April 2004 conclusions, the
Council notes the progress made in particular as regards the financial
aid regulation, the objective of which is to facilitate the
reunification of Cyprus. Work aiming at the adoption of the Commission
proposal for a Council Regulation on special conditions for trade with
areas of the Republic of Cyprus in which the Government of the Republic
of Cyprus does not exercise effective control, must resume without
delay.
[02] FM - CYPRUS QUESTION
The Cyprus government anticipates a new effort to be launched by the
Secretary General of the UN following sufficient preparation of the
ground through the full implementation of the agreement reached between
the two leaders on the 8th of July 2006, and the process proposed by
the UN, Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs George Lillikas said,
speaking at the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels on The Cyprus issue
after the accession of Cyprus to the EU.
Lillikas assured that ``our steadfast aim`` remains the achievement of
a negotiated and mutually acceptable solution, actively involving the
EU and all five permanent members of the Security Council, adding that
our vision and our ambitions for the settlement have not changed.
He reiterated the Republic of Cyprus` position in favour of a
bicommunal and bizonal federal state in Cyprus, with a single
sovereignty, international personality and citizenship, in conformity
with international law, UN resolutions, the high level agreements, the
EU acquis, and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and the
guarantee of the independence of Cyprus and its territorial integrity
without the presence of foreign troops on its soil and the possibility
of foreign interventions.
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