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Cyprus News Agency: News in English (AM), 00-12-17
CONTENTS
[01] Senior EU official - Cyprus - Accession course
[02] Famagusta Mayor - Bush election - Congratulations
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[01] Senior EU official - Cyprus - Accession course
By Maria Myles Nicosia, Dec 17 (CNA) -- A senior European Union official
believes that Cyprus' EU accession course will increasingly reinforce UN
efforts to settle the political question and next year will be critical in
this regard.
"We expect to see a strong positive effect of the EU accession negotiations
on the UN process," Michael Leigh, Director at the Directorate for
enlargement of the EU Commission, who has just completed a visit to the
island and is set to return for more discussions in the future, has told
Cypriot journalists.
CNA MM/MA/2000
ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY
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[02] Famagusta Mayor - Bush election - Congratulations
Nicosia, Dec 17 (CNA) - Mayor of the Turkish occupied town of Famagusta
Andreas Pougiouros has sent a congratulatory telegram to US President elect
George Bush expressing the sincere hope he will intensify efforts for a
"speedy and just solution in Cyprus with residents of the island enjoying
equal freedom and human rights."
He also recalls a meeting he had when he was Cyprus' permanent
representative to the UN with Bush's father, when he was Vice-President of
the USA, and says he remembers "his very kind words and his promise to help
our country and people."
CNA MK/MA/2000
ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY
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