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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 07-11-26
CONTENTS
[01] MARCOULLIS - SYRIA - ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
[02] EU - CYPRUS - FMD
[03] ECB VICE PRESIDENT - CYPRUS - EUROZONE
[01] MARCOULLIS - SYRIA - ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
Cyprus Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou Marcoullis has said that she gave
instructions to Cyprus Ambassador in Damascus to raise before the
Syrian authorities the issue of the transfer of illegal immigrants from
Latakia to the Turkish occupied town of Famagusta, on a ship conducting
illegal routes between Syria and Cyprus occupied areas.
Invited before her departure for Athens to comment the arrival of
illegal immigrants to Famagusta from Latakia, Marcoullis said it was
obvious that these sea routes were used for the illegal transfer of
illegal immigrants and noted that this issue will be raised before the
Syrian Authorities, while the European Commission will be briefed on
this development.
[02] EU - CYPRUS - FMD
The EU Veterinary Committee is expected to lift next Monday the
prohibition of pork meat exports from Cyprus and of the consumption of
meat from the three kilometer protection zone and the 10 kilometre
surveillance zone around the infected holding where food and mouth
disease (FMD) was detected.
Cyprus Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment Minister Photis
Photiou met Monday here with EU Commissioner for Health Marcos
Kyprianou to review the whole situation as regards FMD, with a view to
look into the measures that must be lifted the soonest, as Photiou
said.
[03] ECB VICE PRESIDENT - CYPRUS - EUROZONE
Cyprus is very well prepared for its accession to the eurozone, on
January 1st, 2008, Vice President of the European Central Bank (ECB)
Lucas Papademos has said.
Addressing an audience at the Central Bank of Cyprus, Papademos said
that on its road to the euro, Cyprus has made remarkable progress in
improving the living standards of its people, thanks to an extended
period of stability-oriented macroeconomic policies.
It is, therefore, not a surprise that Cyprus is among the first of the
new EU Member States to adopt the euro. And in many respects, Cyprus
can serve as an example for other countries as regards the question of
how to successfully pursue economic reforms and convergence, he said.
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