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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 06-07-07
CONTENTS
[01] SPOKESMAN - CYPRUS QUESTION - PAPADOPOULOS-TALAT MEETING
[01] SPOKESMAN - CYPRUS QUESTION - PAPADOPOULOS-TALAT MEETING
A proposal by President Papadopoulos to the leader of the Turkish
Cypriot community aims at the immediate start of talks, at a technical
level, on core issues of the Cyprus question, with a view to prepare
with substantive prospects of success, overall negotiations, under UN
auspices, Government Spokesman Christodoulos Pashiardes has said.
Speaking after a meeting here between President Papadopoulos and UN
Undersecretary General for political affairs Imbrahim Gambari,
Pashiardes also said that Papadopoulos has accepted a proposal by
Gambari for a joint meeting with Mehmet Ali Talat.
``Our consent to the UN proposal for a joint meeting is yet another
proof of the political will on our part for a Cyprus settlement, and
evidence of our readiness to prepare, the soonest possible, and allow
substantive talks to begin, under the UN Secretary Generals auspices,
the spokesman said.
He said today President Papadopoulos and Gabari continued their
discussion and exchange of views on the prospects to break the current
deadlock in the Cyprus question.
Furthermore they discussed how to prepare the ground to create the
necessary preconditions for substantive negotiations, aiming at a final
settlement, he added.
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