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Cyprus News Agency: News in English (AM), 00-11-05
CONTENTS
[01] Cyprus - Missing persons - Identification effort
[02] Cyprus - 1999 demographic report
[03] Bicommunal events - Pergamos - London
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[01] Cyprus - Missing persons - Identification effort
by Maria Myles Geneva, Nov 5 (CNA) -- Members of a team working on the
process of exhumation and identification of remains of missing persons in
Cyprus are currently in Greece in a bid to collect blood and information
from relatives of Greek nationals missing since the 1974 Turkish invasion
and occupation of 37 percent of the island's territory.
The team, comprising among others anthropologist Dr William Haglund and
psychologist Sarah Khan of the Nobel prize winning organisation "Physicians
for Human Rights", will also seek to gather as much information as possible
about the missing persons as well as any witness accounts of the
circumstances of the disappearance.
CNA MM/MA//2000
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[02] Cyprus - 1999 demographic report
Nicosia, Nov 05 (CNA) - Approximately one in five marriages in Cyprus end
in divorce according to the Statistical Service's demographic report for
1999 during which marriages were on the rise and the general population was
also on the increase.
The total divorce rate showing the proportion of marriages expected to end
in divorce, was calculated at 208 per 1,000 marriages while in 1980 the
divorce rate stood at only 42 per 1,000 marriages. The number of divorces
in 1999 reached 1,193 from only 852 the previous year.
CNA MK/MA/2000
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[03] Bicommunal events - Pergamos - London
Nicosia, Nov 5 (CNA) -- Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots with origins
from the western district of Paphos are meeting today for the second time
in a couple of months near the village of Pergamos, in one of the two
military bases Britain retains on the island since granting Cyprus
independence from colonial rule in 1960.
At the same time, a bicommunal choir is giving its last of two performances
in London tonight.
CNA ITS/MA/MK/2000
CNA ENDS
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