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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 07-12-08
CONTENTS
[01] SPATAFORA - 8 JULY AGREEMENT
[02] UNSG`S SPOKESPERSON - CYPRUS
[01] SPATAFORA - 8 JULY AGREEMENT
Italian President of the UN Security Council Marcello Spatafora has
expressed the Council`s regret that there has been no really further
progress in the implementation of the 8 July 2006 Agreement, and
support to the Secretary Generals assessment that political will is
needed to go beyond the procedural points and to begin getting into the
substance of the negotiations.
In a statement here, Spatafora said that UNSG`s Special Representative
for Cyprus Michael Moller briefed the members of the Council on the
Report of the Secretary General for the renewal of the mandate of the
UN peace-keeping force in Cyprus, ``where we stand in the
implementation of the 8 July Agreement and also in the running up to
the elections in February in Cyprus and on the successive procedural
discussions``.
``We expressed disappointment and regret that there has been no really
further progress in the implementation of the Agreement, in the
preparation of the negotiation and so on,`` he stressed.
He noted that ``we fully endorsed and supported what the Secretary
Generals assessment was; that what we need now in the following weeks
and months, is political good will, flexibility and courage to go
further, to go beyond the procedural points and to begin getting into
the substance of the negotiations provided of course that we have a
proper and appropriate framework and that their homework has been done
properly.``
``I mean, if you want the substance, then there are some technical
questions and answers. In the Report of the Secretary General that of
course is at your disposal, you see there are more shadows than lights.
So we hope that in this, we are strengthening once more, the hand, the
position of the Secretary General and of his Special Representative,
encouraging the parties to engage in the process described before. So
this is what the discussion was,`` he added.
[02] UNSG`S SPOKESPERSON - CYPRUS
Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Michele Montas,
reiterated the UNSG`s regret that the ongoing debate on lifting the
Turkish Cypriots ``isolation`` has become a debate on recognition,
noting that recognition, or assisting secession, would be contrary to
Security Council resolutions.
Speaking during her daily briefing, Montas said the Secretary-Generals
Special Representative for Cyprus, Michael Mïller, briefed Council
members on the Secretary-Generals latest report on Cyprus, which said
that, over the last six months, there has been no progress on
implementing the Agreement of 8 July 2006, noting that ``in that
context, all parties need to show greater flexibility and political
courage.``
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