|
|
|
Cyprus News Agency: News in English (AM), 01-01-21
CONTENTS
[01] Cyprus - Council of Europe Assmebly
[02] Britain - Cyprus Federation of America - Abduction of Greek Cypriot
1215:CYPPRESS:1
Cyprus - Council of Europe Assmebly
Nicosia, Jan 21 (CNA) - A four-member delegation of the Cyprus Parliament
will attend the first part of the 2001 Ordinary Session of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which will be held
in Strasbourg from January 22 until January 26.
Among the issues to be discussed during the Session are the situation in
the Chechen Republic and the humanitarian situation of refugees from
Chechnya, the honouring of obligations and commitments by Latvia, the
Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe as well as the repercussions from
the war in Yugoslavia.
CNA MK/MM/2000
ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY
1320:CYPPRESS:02
Britain - Cyprus Federation of America - Abduction of Greek Cypriot
Nicosia, Jan 21 (CNA) - British Minister of Foreign Affairs Keith Vaz has
assured in a reply letter to British Euro MP Theresa Villiers that the
welfare of the Greek Cypriot Panicos Tsiakourmas, abducted by the Turkish
occupation forces on December 13, is a top priority for the government of
Britain which will continue to press for his release.
In a different development in this case, the President of the Cyprus
Federation of America Savas Tsivicos has sent a letter to US senators and
congressmen and former president Bill Clinton calling for the immediate and
unconditional release of Tsiakourmas, who was abducted at Pergamos, within
the Dhekelia British Base area, in the south-east of Cyprus, when he went
there to pick up Turkish Cypriots who work on his construction sites.
CNA MK/MM/2000
ENDS, CYPRUS NEWS AGENCY
CNA ENDs
|
