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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 08-07-29
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[01] RUSSIA CYPRUS ISSUE
[01] RUSSIA CYPRUS ISSUE
The Russian Federation remains committed to the UN Security Council
resolutions on Cyprus and has not changed its stance regarding the non
recognition of the pseudostate in the Turkish occupied areas of
Cyprus.
This was stated Tuesday by a spokesperson of the Russian Embassy in
Cyprus, invited to comment on press reports that the so called state is
about to open up a tourism and information office in Moscow to attract
more Russian tourists to the island.
We will ask Moscow for more information on this. I can not right now
make any comment because in the past there had been similar news and in
the end we discovered they had to do with an office of a British
company. There may be distortion or exaggeration and we have to be very
cautious, he said.
Furthermore, he reassured that Russias stance on Cyprus has not changed
and said that Moscow respects the UNSC resolutions 541 and 550. The
self-proclaimed state in northern Turkish occupied Cyprus is recognised
only by Turkey, which in 1974 invaded and occupied Cyprus northern
third. United Nation resolutions 550 and 541 of 1984 call on all states
not to recognise or facilitate the regime, describing it as ``legally
invalid`` and to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of
the Republic of Cyprus.
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