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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 11-02-07Cyprus News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Cyprus News Agency at <http://www.cyna.org.cy>CONTENTS
[01] UN CHIEF - CYPRUS - TURKEYUN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has discussed the Cyprus issue with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, on the margins of the Munich Security Conference.According to a statement issued by the UN, Ban and Davutoglu also discussed the situation in Egypt and the forthcoming Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, which will be held in Constantinople in May. [02] MINISTER - EU TRANSPORTMinister of Communications and Works Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis departed Monday for Budapest to participate in the informal meeting of the EU Ministers on Transport, to take place 7 and 8 February.According to an official press release, on the sidelines of the meeting, the Cypriot Minister will meet with her EU counterparts and the Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Trasport issues, Siim Kallas. The informal ministerial meeting will discuss the methodology and funding of network planning. The Hungarian EU Presidency will strive to reach a major political compromise on the development of the Trans-European Transport Network. [03] POLITICIANS - CMP - VISITGreek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot politicians will visit the facilities of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP).According to a press release issued by the Slovak embassy, leaders and representatives of the political parties in Cyprus which participate in the regular bi-communal meetings at the Ledra Palace, under the auspices of the embassy of the Slovak Republic in Cyprus, will be organising a visit to the CMP facilities. The visit will take place on Wednesday morning in the United Nations Protected Area in Nicosia and will be attended by the three CMP members. Members of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot political parties will watch a CMP documentary and then visit the CMP Anthropological Laboratory, which analyses exhumed remains of missing persons before bone samples are sent to the Cyprus Institute for Neurology and Genetics Laboratory of Forensic Genetics for DNA identification. [04] ANCIENT EGYPT - DOCUMENTARYWhen the Egyptians Sailed on the Red Sea is the name of the internationally acclaimed documentary to be screened for the first time in Cyprus at the University of Cyprus (UCY) on Monday.Through the eyes of director Stéphane Bégoin viewers will experience the design and construction of an 18th Dynasty Egyptian trading ship replica and its experimental voyage on the Red Sea. According to a joint UCY and Thetis Foundation announcement University of Florida maritime archaeologist Cheryl Ward coordinated the design and construction of a replica of an 18th Dynasty Egyptian trading ship within the framework of the research programme Min of the Desert. Once construction was completed, Ward and her team sailed on the Red Sea in an experimental voyage just like Hatshepsuts Egyptian fleet did in search of the mythical land of Punt, some 3,500 years ago. Cyprus News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |