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Cyprus News Agency: News in English (AM), 99-10-13
CONTENTS
[01] Foreign Minister - Athens
[02] Christian sect - Arrival in Rhodes
[03] Balkan Festival opens
[04] Cyprus Stock Exchange
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[01] Foreign Minister - Athens
Larnaca, Oct 13 (CNA) -- Cyprus Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides left
today for Athens where he will meet his Greek counterpart George Papandreou
later today in view of important meetings taking place until December aimed
at resuming the Cyprus peace talks.
Replying to press questions at Larnaca airport, Kasoulides said the
improvement of the climate between Greece and Turkey should benefit efforts
to settle the Cyprus problem and called on the international community to
turn towards Ankara if progress for a solution is to be achieved.
CNA MAN/MA/GP/1999
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[02] Christian sect - Arrival in Rhodes
Nicosia, Oct 13 (CNA) -- Cypriot-flagged cruise ship "Nissos Kypros"
carrying some 25 mainly Irish members of an extreme Christian sect today
anchored in the Greek island of Rhodes from where it will go to Pireus port,
according to the shipowner company "Salamis Tours".
The 25 were denied entry to Cyprus yesterday after being expelled from
Israel because of fears that they plan to commit mass suicide on the
occasion of the 2000 years since the birth of Christ.
CNA MA/GP/1999
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[03] Balkan Festival opens
Nicosia, Oct 13 (CNA) -- A Balkan cinema festival opened in the southern
coastal town of Limassol last night with the film "The Power Keg" of
Yugoslavian director Goran Pascalevitc.
Nine films from Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, FYROM, Romania
a Greco-Turkish and a French-Bosnian co-production will be screened during
the two week festival taking place in Limassol and Nicosia.
CNA MA/MCH/1999
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[04] Cyprus Stock Exchange
Nicosia, Oct 12 CNA) -- The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) All Share Index
closed at today's stock exchange meeting as follows:
CSE General Index 514.67 ( 1.92)
Traded Value CYP 18,597,900
Sectural Indices
Banks CYP 7,630,732 701.99 ( 1.25)
Approved Investment
Companies CYP 1,109,734 329.83 ( 0.08)
Insurance Companies CYP 936,515 228.97 ( 5.88)
Manufacturing Companies CYP 698,619 168.97 ( 3.90)
Tourism Companies CYP 1,867,491 390.54 ( 1.28)
Trading Companies CYP 1,778,316 238.79 ( 5.13)
Other Companies CYP 2,774,518 401.30 ( 3.94)
The third column presents the percentage variation of the indices as
compared to the last meeting.
CNA MM/1999
ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY
CNA ENDS
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