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[01] President Clerides raises future security issues

[02] Defector remanded - Unknown crosses to occupied areas

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[01] President Clerides raises future security issues

President Clerides told the press last night, no dialogue can be made with the Turkish Cypriot side if this doesn't include the issues of Cyprus' future security, such as his proposal for complete demilitarisation of the island, the future guarantees and the deployment of a multinational force, as well as Turkey's so-called "unilateral right for intervention".

The President was commenting on statements by Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, who claimed that the issue of sovereignty and Turkey's right to intervene after a Cyprus solution are "not negotiable."

President Clerides said there are some "six to seven basic issues on Cyprus" where no progress has been achieved since 1974, when Turkey invaded and occupied 37 per cent of the island's territory.

He also said no Cyprus solution can be reached if these issues were not discussed and finalised.

Meanwhile, in a TV interview yesterday with the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said the UN have not yet finalised wording of the invitations to be sent out to President Clerides and Denktash for face-to-face talks, early July in the New York vicinity.

Kasoulides pointed out it would be appropriate that these invitations' wording is simple or at least on the lines of a letter sent by the UN Chief to the two leaders last January.

In another event last night, House of Representatives President, Spyros Kyprianou, referred to information claiming that direct talks will go on for months, irrespective of progress made.

Kyprianou expressed his concern that if this information were correct, the direct talks will be "perpetuated", leaving the Greek Cypriot side no choice for further initiatives, given that no preconditions were set for these talks to begin and no sign of change in the Turkish side's stance is evident.

CNA AP/KN/1997

ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY

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[02] Defector remanded - Unknown crosses to occupied areas

A passport found by the police in his possession identify him as Nafih Can, 26, a driver from Diyarbakir town, in southeast Turkey.

Police also found in Can's possession "documents" of the illegal Turkish Cypriot regime, including a so-called "visa" for stay in the Turkish-occupied areas. He had illegally entered the Republic of Cyprus through the northern occupied port of Kyrenia.

Around 2200 hours (1900 GMT) last night, Can entered a Greek Cypriot house at Troulli village, in the southern Larnaca District, and with his hands up he asked the tenants to call the police.

The Turkish defector told the police he came to the free government- controlled areas of the Republic to seek a job, since living conditions both in Turkey and the occupied areas were "tragic."

Meanwhile, a person has been reported as crossing this morning to the Turkish-occupied areas, at the Aronas area, three kilometres east of the capital Nicosia.

An eye witness, working at a nearby cemetery, said the unknown person run away and crossed to the occupied part, through the UN-controlled buffer zone, after he asked him on his whereabouts. He also said he saw him being arrested and badly beaten by Turkish soldiers.

According to the Cyprus radio, the Turkish occupation troops told the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) nobody was arrested.

However, National Guard soldiers serving in the area said they had noticed a person entering the Aglandja cemetery from the government- controlled areas.

CNA AP/KN/1997

ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY

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