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Cyprus News Agency: News in English (PM), 99-12-16
CONTENTS
[01] Export Awards - Presentation ceremony
[02] President Clerides - Return from New York
[03] Cyprus - Energy resources
[04] Russia - New Cyprus ambassador
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[01] Export Awards - Presentation ceremony
Nicosia, Dec 16 (CNA) --Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Nicos
Rolandis today presented the 1998 Cyprus Export Awards to the island's top
exporters.
In an address read out by Rolandis, President of the Republic Glafcos
Clerides said the restructuring and technological upgrading of the island's
productive sectors is a "strategic goal of the government".
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[02] President Clerides - Return from New York
Larnaca, Dec 16 (CNA) -- Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides believes the
proximity talks held in New York as well as the European Union Helsinki
summit have to some extent brought about a change in prospects to settle
the Cyprus problem.
On his return today from the US where he attended the talks, President
Clerides confirmed a new round of UN led negotiations will take place late
January to clarify the positions put forward by the two sides in New York.
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[03] Cyprus - Energy resources
Nicosia, Dec 16 (CNA) -- Cyprus has no commercially exploitable energy
resources other than renewable, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism
Nikos Rolandis said here today.
Addressing a seminar and training workshop on Biogas, Electricity and
Organic Fertilizer Production from Agro-Industrial and Urban Waste,
Rolandis said Cyprus has mainly solar energy, the utilization of which
contributes about 4% to its total energy needs.
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[04] Russia - New Cyprus ambassador
Nicosia, Dec 16 (CNA) -- Russia will continue its constructive contribution
in the efforts to find a just solution to the Cyprus problem, President of
the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin said today.
Accepting the credentials of Cyprus' new ambassador to Russia
Charalambos Ioannides as well as those of ten other ambassadors, Yeltsin
made a special reference to Cyprus noting that relations between Cyprus and
Russia play an important role in his country's foreign policy.
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