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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 11-10-23Cyprus News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Cyprus News Agency at <http://www.cyna.org.cy>CONTENTS
[01] CHRISTOFIDES - CYPRUS - UNThe UN is obliged to defend both the agreed process as well as the agreed basis for a solution to the Cyprus problem, Director of the Office of the President of the Republic Christos Christofides has said.Addressing a ceremony for the burial of Ioannis Savvides, who died in a ambush by Turkish troops in 1974 and his remains were identified with the DNA identification process, Christofides warned that the toleration of attitudes that undermine the solution basis ``is like giving the green light to Turkey to continue its unacceptable and illegal division of the island, since the ongoing talks cannot reach their aim for a solution to the Cyprus problem.`` ``Our side is more than ready for a solution to the Cyprus problem but not any solution. We are not ready to accept a bad solution which would essentially constitute the closure of the Cyprus problem with negative consequences on the future of our people,`` Christofides went on to say. He pointed out that Turkish provocation is clearly manifested with regard to Cyprus` exploratory drilling in its Exclusive Economic Zone. [02] UK MEP - CYPRUS ISSUEMarina Yiannakoudakis, UK MEP, member of the European Parliament`s High Level Contact Group with the Turkish Cypriot Community, has called on the Cypriots to step in and assist the efforts to reunify Cyprus.In a statement following a visit of the Contact Group to Cyprus, Yiannakoudakis said that there is a long way to go in the UN-backed settlement talks, but as long the two sides keep talking there is hope. ``However politicians need to take a leaf out of the book of the two communities who are already working together,`` she pointed out. She referred to projects such as the Committee for Missing Persons and the Crisis Management Committee, noting that these ``show how well Greek and Turkish Cypriots can work together.`` ``Nevertheless, time is running out and the losers will be the Turkish Cypriots. I fear that the Turkish Cypriots will suffer as the minority in their own country not because of the Greek Cypriots but because of the Turkish occupying forces,`` Yiannakoudakis pointed out. Turkish and Greek Cypriots can live together, it`s the interference of Turkey that has caused the problem, Yiannakoudakis concluded. [03] CYPRUS - MEDICRIMECyprus, along with Germany, France, Austria, Finland and Switzerland, will be the first Council of Europe member state to ratify the International Treaty on counterfeit medical products (MEDICRIME Convention).Adopted on 8 December 2010, the Convention will be open for signature as of 26 October on the occasion of a high-level conference to be organised in Moscow, Russia. The Convention establishes as offences the manufacturing, supplying and trafficking of counterfeit medical products. Cyprus News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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