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Cyprus News Agency: News in English (PM), 01-03-28Cyprus News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Cyprus News Agency at <http://www.cyna.org.cy>CONTENTS
1950:CYPPRESS:01[01] FM Permanent Secretary - UN CommissionNicosia, Mar 28 (CNA) -- Those responsible for detecting and castigating human rights violations should not turn a blind eye to powerful perpetrators, Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Ministry Michalis Attalides has said in his address at the 57th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights.With respect to Cyprus, Attalides expressed the government's grave disappointment with a UN report on human rights on the island, whose limited references to human rights issues "conceal more than they reveal." CNA MM/RM/20012030:CYPPRESS:02[02] Cyprus - Bicommunal FestivalNicosia, Mar 28 (CNA) -- Left-wing party AKEL's youth branch EDON and its Turkish Cypriot counterpart of the Republican Turkish Party (RTP) are organising a bicommunal festival on 31 March at the Ledra Palace hotel, in the UN- controlled buffer zone, as part of ten days of festivities to promote rapprochement between the island's two communities."We want to send a message of friendship and cooperation to our Turkish Cypriot compatriots and particularly to young Turkish Cypriots," Kostakis Koukos, of EDON central secretariat, told a press conference here today. CNA/RM/MM/2001 2110:CYPPRESS:03[03] EIF - UNIMED - SeminarNicosia, Mar 28 (CNA) -- The Employers and Industrialists Federation (EIF) will organise a two-day seminar between 30 - 31 March in Nicosia, on issues relating to financing small and medium enterprises.According to an EIF press release, the seminar will be organised within the framework of the European Programme UNIMED, a project co-financed by MEDA that brings together the 27 Euro-Mediterranean Partners' Employers' organisations. CNA/RM/MM/2001 2115:CYPPRESS:04[04] EPP/ED Group - SessionNicosia, Mar 28 (CNA) -- Cyprus' accession course into the European Union and the efforts to find a solution to the Cyprus issue will be the main issues discussed during a two-day session of the European Peoples Party - European Democrats Group Bureau, which begins here tomorrow.The delegation of the EPP - ED Group, headed by its President Hans-Gert Pottering, will be received by President Glafcos Clerides on 30 March and be briefed on the latest developments of the Cyprus question by Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides, Finance Minister Takis Klerides and by President of Democratic Rally (DISI) Nicos Anastassiades. CNA/RM/MM/2001 2125:CYPPRESS:05[05] Foreign Minister - BelgradeNicosia, Mar 28 (CNA) -- Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides and his Yugoslav counterpart Goran Svilanovic today reaffirmed the close bonds of friendship between their respective countries and reiterated their committment to international law, respect for UN resolutions and the peaceful solution of conflicts.Kasoulides who is in Belgrade on a two-day official visit at the invitation of his Yugoslav counterpart, was received today by President Voislav Kostunica to whom he conveyed a personal message from President Glafcos Clerides and later on met with Vice - President M. Labus and Patriarch of Serbia Pavlos. CNA RM/MM/2001CNA ENDSCyprus News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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