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CONTENTS

[01] Cyprus Greens - Letters to French and German ministers

[02] "Kypria '99" International Festival - Education Minister

[03] Cyprus - Belarus - Tourism

[04] PSEKA - Christopher - Weston

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[01] Cyprus Greens - Letters to French and German ministers

The Movement today handed the letters addressed to French minister Dominique Voynet and German minister Jurgen Trittin at the two embassies in Nicosia, within the framework of the campaign of the European Federation of Green parties to actively promote the denuclearisation of the Mediterranean region.

The Ecological and Environmental Movement's letters coincide with today's 54th anniversary of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb destruction.

Movement representative George Perdikis said these two ministers were chosen because "they belong to Green parties and they have an obligation to influence the companies from their countries which are trying to sell Turkey the necessary equipment to set up a nuclear plant."

In its letter the Cyprus Green Party calls on the two ministers to "promote a nuclear free Mediterranean and to avert Turkey's nuclear plans by blocking the German-French consortium of nuclear power production from selling nuclear technology to Turkey."

"At a time when Europe has in effect put on hold all future nuclear power plants due to their higher than ever anticipated health and environmental dangers, as the Chernobyl accident has proven, it is a paradox to promote a nuclear power station in Akkuyu, on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey," it adds.

Local ecologists have being carrying out a campaign against the construction of a nuclear plant in Akkuyu, underlining the dire consequences it could have for Cyprus due to its close proximity.

CNA FZ/MA/EC/1999

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[02] "Kypria '99" International Festival - Education Minister

Announcing the festival, Ioannides said the advent of the year 2000 marks nine years since the "Kypria" International Festival was established as the first and most important cultural event on the island.

It is organised annually by the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture during September and October and offers an extravaganza of cultural events encompassing ballet, theatre, concerts, cinema and art exhibitions with distinguished personalities from Cyprus and abroad.

Ioannides said the festival has managed to meet expectations over the years and a total of 350.000 Cyprus pounds were allocated for this year's events. (One Cyprus pound trades at 1,8 US dollars).

This year the festival will include Aeschylus' "Oresteia" to be staged by the Cyprus Theatre Organisation, Euripides' "Helen" by the Spyros Evangelatos Amphitheatre and William Shakespeare's "Othello" by the Greek Artists' Association.

In the music field, "Kypria '99" will host Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" by the Collegium Musicum of Bonn University with conductor Walter Mik, the Romanian National Radio Orchestra with concertmaster, Kypros Markou and Soloist, Eugene Sarbu and the Oxford "Philomusica Orchestra" with music director Marios Papadopoulos.

Two very well known international names in the dance field will participate in the Cypriot festival.

They are the British Rambert Dance Company which will present three projects entitled "Embarque", "Rooster" and "Ghost Dance" and the French "Maguy Marin" Dance Company which will show Samuel Beckett's "May B".

During the festival, 100 paintings, sculptures and engravings, works of the most remarkable 20th century Greek Artists from the Valuable Collections of Rhodes Municipal Gallery will be on exhibition.

At the same time there will be a tribute to the Balkan cinema with directors and actors from Balkan countries present at the festival.

CNA GG/EC/MCH 1999

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[03] Cyprus - Belarus - Tourism

Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, Nicos Rolandis and Belarus Deputy Minister of Tourism, Mikhail Sharshavitsky, exchanged views on issues concerning tourism and expressed the determination to strengthen bilateral relations.

Rolandis said "tourism from Belarus is satisfactory", adding that the "good relations should continue and be further strengthened in the future".

Speaking through an interpreter the Belarus Minister expressed the hope tourism relations would be further developed, noting that his compatriots always seek destinations with a clean environment like the one in Cyprus.

Sharshavitsky said the two countries will also aim to reinforce their friendly, political and economic bilateral relations.

CNA MCH/EC/1999

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[04] PSEKA - Christopher - Weston

Speaking to London Greek Radio (LGR), Christopher said Friday they discussed the Cyprus problem during a meeting yesterday, reaffirming that a solution should be based on a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation.

He pointed out, however, that "there was some problem" as far as the right of all refugees to return to their homes was concerned.

"The right of refugees to return should not be questioned," he stressed, noting that "irrespective of whether they choose to return or not in a future bi-zonal, bi-communal federation, they should not be deprived of their right".

Christopher said Weston told him a lot depends on the visit of Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit to Washington, on September 28, during which he will discuss the Cyprus problem with US President Bill Clinton.

PSEKA President said Weston will visit Cyprus by the end of August and will also travel to London and Brussels.

Weston succeeded Thomas Miller in the post. Around 200.000 Greek Cypriots became refugees when they were forcibly uprooted from their homes during the 1974 Turkish invasion and occupation of Cyprus' northern third.

CNA MCH/EC/1999

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