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Cyprus News Agency: News in English (AM), 00-05-07
CONTENTS
[01] Kasoulides - Missing persons - War dead - Identification
[02] British Bases - Exercise - Cyprus
[03] President Clerides - Fifth medical press release
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[01] Kasoulides - Missing persons - War dead - Identification
Nicosia, May 7 (CNA) - Over the past week, 15 persons, whose remains were
exhumed last summer in two local cemeteries, have been identified through
the DNA process. Of these persons, 14 are Cypriots war dead, killed during
the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus and whose families knew they were dead,
and one a military man from Greece, listed as missing during the invasion.
Foreign Minister, Ioannis Kasoulides, said here yesterday that the
relatives of the Cypriots have already been notified and that the family of
the Greek military man would be notified by the Greek authorities.
CNA/RG/2000
ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY
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[02] British Bases - Exercise - Cyprus
Nicosia, May 7 (CNA) - The emergency services in the British Bases are to
be fully tested during the "Theseus 2000" exercise beginning tomorrow, with
the participation of the emergency services of the Republic of Cyprus.
A British Bases press release states that "Theseus 2000" is a "civil
emergency exercise, designed to stretch the resources" of the eastern
British Base.
CNA/RG/2000
ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY
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[03] President Clerides - Fifth medical press release
Nicosia, May 7 (CNA) - Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides is no longer in
intensive care at the private clinic, in which he is being treated after
undergoing surgery to remove a polyp from his large intestine.
Reading to the press the fifth medical bulletin on the President's health
since Friday morning, when the President was taken to theatre, Dr. Joseph
Kasios said that "the condition of his health is developing smoothly" and
he "has full clarity of mind ".
CNA/GG/RG/2000
ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY
CNA ENDS
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