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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 09-10-07
CONTENTS
[01] GAROYIAN PARLIAMENT ACTIVITIES
[02] SPOKESMAN - GREECE - COOPERATION
[01] GAROYIAN PARLIAMENT ACTIVITIES
President of the House of Representatives Marios Garoyian said here
today that the Cyprus problem has been the focus of parliamentary
activity abroad during the past legislative period.
Speaking Wednesday at a press conference on the work of the House of
Representatives during the Third Session of the 9th Legislative Period,
Garoyian said that the members of the Cypriot Parliament have embarked
on a campaign to brief their interlocutors about the latest
developments regarding the Cyprus issue and the different aspects of
the problem.
He added that they have highlighted, at the same time, the commitment
of the Greek Cypriot side to reach an agreed, functional and viable
solution of the Cyprus problem based on a bizonal, bicommunal
federation, on the basis of the High Level Agreements of 1977 and 1979,
relevant UN resolutions and EU values and principles.
``We have also outlined Turkish intransigence, which has led to poor
results only in the first round of direct negotiations. We have called
on our interlocutors to make an effort and exercise substantive
international pressure on Ankara, which still holds the key to the
solution of the Cyprus problem, he stressed.
[02] SPOKESMAN - GREECE - COOPERATION
Government Spokesman Stephanos Stephanou said on Wednesday that
cooperation, coordination and close contact with Greece is a dire
necessity, adding that the Cypriot government would work with the new
Greek government to face the challenges ahead, especially in view of
Turkey`s evaluation by the EU in December.
Replying to questions regarding the composition of the new government
in Greece, Stephanou said ``the formation of the government is the
absolute right of the Prime Minister in Greece, and the President in
Cyprus.``
``Cooperation, coordination, close contact with Greece is a dire
necessity, and our government will work with this new government of
Greece in order to establish close contact, coordination and common
action to face the challenges ahead, especially now, in view of
December, with Turkey`s evaluation,`` he said. He added that new Prime
Minister George Papandreou also expressed the same wish when he met
with President of the Republic Demetris Christofias in Cyprus recently,
and during a telephone conversation after the victory of PASOK in
Sunday`s elections in Greece.
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