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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 07-02-08
CONTENTS
[01] BRITAIN - TURKISH CYPRIOTS
[02] CYPRUS - CoE SEMINAR
[01] BRITAIN - TURKISH CYPRIOTS
The UK and its EU partners remain committed to lifting the so-called
economic isolation of the Turkish Cypriots through targeted financial
aid and trade liberation, Foreign Office Parliamentary Under-Secretary
of State Lord Triesman has said.
Replying to questions by Lord Kilclooney at the House of Lords,
Triesman said the British government continues to review the legal
position in respect of direct flights to Cyprus` Turkish occupied
areas, assuring that the UK does not intend to take action that would
be in contravention of international law.
Asked what is being done in respect of the EU assurance to end the
isolation of the Turkish Cypriots, Triesman replied: the UK and its EU
partners remain committed to lifting the economic isolation of the
Turkish Cypriots through targeted financial aid and trade liberation.
[02] CYPRUS - CoE SEMINAR
Cyprus will be hosting the sixth regional seminar to fight human
trafficking and to promote the signature and ratification of its
Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings.
The seminar, which will be held on 15 and 16 February at Hilton Park
Hotel in Nicosia, is organised by the Equality Division Directorate
General of Human Rights of the 46-member Council of Europe in
cooperation with the Cypriot Ministry of Interior and will focus on all
three aspects of the Convention, namely Prevention, Protection and
Prosecution.
Up to 150 seminar participants, including Council of Europe speakers,
national officials with expertise in human rights and criminal law and
NGO representatives from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Italy,
Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine, will examine methods of stopping this
"modern form of slavery."
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