Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 07-06-14
CONTENTS
[01] ITALIAN PM - ARCHBISHOP OF CYPRUS - CULTURAL HERITAGE
[02] HOUSE PRESIDENT - SLOVENIAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT
[01] ITALIAN PM - ARCHBISHOP OF CYPRUS - CULTURAL HERITAGE
Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi is undertaking an initiative to
save Christian and other cultural monuments in Cyprus Turkish occupied
areas and to promote the demand of the Church of Cyprus for the
maintenance and renovation of Cyprus occupied monuments.
Prodi met Thursday in Rome with Archbishop Chrysostomos II, who said
after the meeting that the Cyprus delegation explained to Prodi the
situation as regards the destruction of churches in Cyprus occupied
areas adding that the Italian Prime Minister pledged that he will
discuss the issue with Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos and other
EU leaders during the forthcoming European Council in Brussels.
He assured that they will all work together so that Europe will exert
pressure on Turkey to stop this vandalism and the destruction of our
churches because this is not an issue concerning only us but the whole
humanity, he added.
[02] HOUSE PRESIDENT - SLOVENIAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT
Slovenian National Assembly President France Cukjati said Thursday that
the Cyprus problem should be discussed and resolved during Turkeys
accession negotiations.
Speaking after talks with his Cypriot counterpart Demetris Christofias,
who is paying an official visit to Slovenia, Cukjati further said it is
important that Turkey and Balkan countries should continue to have a
European perspective and that the EU maintains open doors for these
countries.
However, he said, all countries should conform to all the preconditions
that other candidate countries had to conform.
In his remarks, Christofias assured his counterpart that Cyprus is
committed to a peaceful solution of the Cyprus problem, on the basis of
UN resolutions, within the framework of a bizonal, bicommunal
federation.
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