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Cyprus News Agency: News in English (AM), 00-02-26Cyprus News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Cyprus News Agency at <http://www.cyna.org.cy><html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas- microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows- 1253"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <link rel=File-List href="./todayafiles/filelist.xml"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties><o:Author>user1</o:Author> <o:LastAuthor>user1</o:LastAuthor> <o:Revision>2</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>9</o:TotalTime> <o:Created>2000-02-26T13:41:00Z</o:Created> <o:LastSaved>2000-02- 26T13:41:00Z</o:LastSaved> <o:Pages>2</o:Pages> <o:Words>510</o:Words> <o:Characters>2912</o:Characters> <o:Lines>24</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>5</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>3576</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>9.2720</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"MS Mincho"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-alt:"\FF2D\FF33 \660E\671D"; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:"\@MS Mincho"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.MsoPlainText, li.MsoPlainText, div.MsoPlainText {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:72.0pt 57.6pt 72.0pt 57.6pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> </head> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoPlainText style='tab-stops:180.0pt'><span style='mso-fareast- font-family: "MS Mincho"'><PRE><o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><H3>CONTENTS</H3><o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(01) Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(02) Cyprus - State Department Report - Human Rights<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(03) Foreign Minister - Echelon - British Bases<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText style='tab-stops:225.0pt'><span style='mso-fareast- font-family: "MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(04) Archbishop Chrysostomos - Alexandria and All Africa Patriarch<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText style='tab-stops:225.0pt'><span style='mso-fareast- font-family: "MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(05) PEO - General Secretary<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'></P> <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>1430:CYPPRESS:01<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Nicosia, Feb 26 (CNA) -- Today's weather and temperatures for <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>Cyprus, according to the Meteorological Service at Larnaca <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>International Airport are:<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>Temperatures (degrees Celcius)<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>---------------------- -----------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Station<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Maximum<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Minimum<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Weather<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(At 1200 UTC)<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>---------------------- -----------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Nicosia<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>16<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>FAIR<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Larnaca<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>17<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>FINE<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Limassol<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>17<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>FINE<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Paphos<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>FAIR<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>---------------------- -----------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>CNA MA/2000<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>1530:CYPPRESS:02<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>Cyprus - State Department Report - Human Rights<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Nicosia, Feb 26 (CNA) - Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>today personally complained to the US ambassador in Cyprus Donald <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>Bandler over the wording and the way with which the State <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>Department writes its annual report on the condition of human <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>rights on the island.<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>He disagreed with the comparison in the 1999 report, made <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>public yesterday, between the situation in the Cyprus Republic and <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>the Turkish occupied north, underlining that there is only one <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus.<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>CNA MA/RG/2000<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>1530:CYPPRESS:03<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>Foreign Minister - Echelon - British Bases<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Nicosia, Feb 26 (CNA) - Foreign Minister, Ioannis Kasoulides, <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>said today that Cyprus would do everything possible to safeguard <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>the right to privacy and would support European Union actions <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>towards this end.<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Commenting on a report by British journalist, Duncan <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>Campbell, that the British Bases in Cyprus were being used for <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>espionage through the Echelon system, Kasoulides said the <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>government would not question the Bases on the island, but would <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>complain if it realised that Britain, which is considered to be a <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>friendly country, was proved to be spying against the Republic, <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>although it has assured it was not.<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>CNA/RG/MA/2000<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>1530:CYPPRESS:04<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>Archbishop Chrysostomos - Alexandria and All Africa Patriarch<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Nicosia, Feb 26 (CNA) - The Primate of the Orthodox Church of <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>Cyprus Archbishop Chrysostomos today met the Cypriot-born Pope and <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Petros, who arrived here <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>yesterday for a four-day private visit.<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>The Patriarch<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>will speak at a conference organized Sunday by <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>the Cypriot Christian Scientists Union, to be addressed by <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>President Glafcos Clerides, Archbishop Chrysostomos and Greek <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>ambassador to Cyprus Kyriakos Rodousakis.<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>Earlier he will also officiate a church service in Nicosia.<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>CNA<span style="mso- spacerun: yes"> </span>MA/FZ/2000<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>1530:CYPPRESS:05<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>PEO - General Secretary<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Nicosia, Feb 26 (CNA) - Pambis Kyritsis was re-elected today <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>General Secretary of the Pancyprian Workers' Federation (PEO), at <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>the end of the trade union's three-day 23rd Congress held in <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>Nicosia with the participation of some 1000 delegates and 200 <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>guests.<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Of the 98 votes, Kyritsis, who was the only contestant, won <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>93 votes in favour and three against, while there were two <o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'>abstentions.<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>CNA<span style="mso- spacerun: yes"> </span>MA/FZ/2000<o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></pre><o:p></o:p></span> <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span> </div> Cyprus News Agency: News in English Directory - 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