Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation: News in English, 04-12-03

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From: The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation at <http://www.cybc.com.cy/>

CONTENTS

[01] HEADLINES

[02] TURKEY ACCESSION

[03] BORREL TURKEY

[04] ERLINGS RESOLUTION

[05] SPOKESMAN

[06] IRAQ

[07] UKRAINE

[08] CYPRUS AIDS

[09] SEMI NO RESULT

[10] WEATHER FRIDAY 3 DECEMBER 2004

[01] HEADLINES

-- President of the European Parliament, Yosep Borrel, heading a delegation, begins talks in Ankara today on the country's european course.

--Cyprus government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides said that there seems to be no mobility for a Cyprus settlement before the European COuncil decides whether to start accession negotiations with Turkey on 17 December.

-- A suicide car bomber rammed into a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad during dawn prayers today, killing 14 people and stoking fears that sectarian divisions over when to hold elections could unleash further bloodshed.

And -- In Cyprus, two secondary school boys were infected with the HIV virus.

[02] TURKEY ACCESSION

According to CNN Turk, the meeting will be held today at six in the afternoon and will be chaired by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.

Before the meeting, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul will confer with Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, Mehmet Ali Talat and Serdar Denktash.

Turkey has publicly stated that it will not recognise the Republic of Cyprus as long as a solution to the Cyprus problem is pending.

Yesterday, the so called parliament in the turkish occupied north voted against recognition of the Republic of Cyprus.

[03] BORREL TURKEY

Before his departure Mr. Borrel had staterd that the beginning of Turkey's accession negotiations with the EU depends on the Ankara's recognition of the Republic of Cyprus.

Mr. Borrel and his delegation will meet Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Constantinople and attend a conference on the relations between the EU and Turkey. The delegation will also visit Diyarbakir in south-eastern Turkey.

[04] ERLINGS RESOLUTION

The draft, which circulated yesterday in Brussels as an official document, calls on Turkey to withdraw its troops from Cyprus, based on a timetable, and to abolish all restrictions in the docking of commercial Cyprus flagged ships.

It also notes that the international community is concerned over the non-recognition of the Republic of Cyprus by Turkey and the fact that more than 30 thousand Turkish soldiers are stationed in the occupied north.

Furthermore, it notes the non-implementation of the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Titina Loizidou concerning rights to property, as well as the decision concerning Cyprus' interstate appeal against Turkey.

[05] SPOKESMAN

He said that the Turkish leadership continues to reiterate the same position regarding recognition of Cyprus, stressing that Ankara must rtealise the importance of Nicosia's vote.

The Spokesman said the Greek Cypriot side's positions, as expressed by Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, are being noted by the EU adding that all these issues will be raised during President Papadopoulos' meeting with Dutch Premier Jan Peter Balkenende who will arrive on the island on December 7.

[06] IRAQ

Witnesses said there were two blasts -- an initial explosion during prayers and a second blast as rescuers tried to drag out the dead and wounded at the mosque in Aadhamiya, a mainly Sunni neighbourhood and guerrilla stronghold in northern Baghdad.

In another dawn attack in the southwest of the capital, gunmen fired mortars at a police station in the Seydiya district before bursting into the compound and hunting down policemen inside, survivors of the attack said. Eleven policemen were killed and six were wounded.

The insurgents also freed around 50 prisoners from the jail in the police station and set two police pickup trucks ablaze. In an Internet statement, the guerrilla group led by Jordanian al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the attack.

The violence threatens to derail Iraq's first democratic elections in decades, scheduled for Jan. 30.

[07] UKRAINE

Thousands of supporters of opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko flocked to the capital's main square and near the court. But there were fewer massed in Kiev on the 12th day of protests to overturn official election results that handed victory to Moscow-backed Viktor Yanukovich.

Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, who has taken part in international mediation efforts to end the stand-off, said he feared an outbreak of violence as protesters became more tired, both physically and emotionally.

Most political forces in Ukraine agree a new election is needed to end a crisis that has hit the economy and fanned fears of a split in the country 13 years after it won independence from the Soviet Union, but differ on the sort of poll.

[08] CYPRUS AIDS

Speaking during a press conference in Nicosia today, he said the treatment they receive from the society is very satisfactory.

This year's AIDS Day in Cyprus is dedicated to women and young girls.

During the press conference, Laura Papantoniou, head of the AIDS programme on the island, said there are 50 women and young girls in Cyprus who are HIV carriers.

Health minister Andreas Christou said that 40 million people throughout the world carry the disease and a further 30 million have died of AIDS.

[09] SEMI NO RESULT

SEK trade union said it will officially announce its poisition today while PEO said on Monday.

Meanwhile, Labour Minister Christos Taliadors told CYBC that what matters is not to stress the disagreement but to concentrate on the points where there is agremeent. Efforts to reach a final agreement will continue, he added.

[10] WEATHER

Tonight, it will remain clear with passing cloud. Winds will be north-westerly to north-easterly light, force three and the sea slight. Temperatures will fall to nine degrees inland, eleven on the coasts and four over the mountains.

Temperatures will mark a slight increase over the weekend.

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