|
|
|
Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 09-11-26
CONTENTS
[01] PRESIDENT CHRISTOFIAS LONDON
[02] DROUTSAS - CYPRUS PROBLEM
[01] PRESIDENT CHRISTOFIAS LONDON
PRESIDENT - BRITISH MPs - TURKEY President of the Republic Demetris
Christofias has called on members of the British Parliament to exert
pressure on Turkey to abandon policies of partition and expansion and
cooperate constructively towards a just, functional and viable
solution.
The President made the statement during an address at the opening of
the Photographic Exhibition Faces of Cyprus by Doros Partasides, at the
House of Commons, in London on Wednesday evening.
Assuring that he will continue efforts to put an end to the occupation
and to achieve the reunification our country and our people and to do
my utmost to turn our peoples hope into a reality, President
Christofias turned his attention to the Members of Parliament and said
we need your assistance for the smile to blossom on our faces. I urge
you to exert pressure on the occupying power to abandon policies of
partition and expansion and cooperate constructively towards a just,
functional and viable solution.
[02] DROUTSAS - CYPRUS PROBLEM
Alternate Greek Foreign Minister Demetris Droutsas has repeated the
Greek position on a solution to the Cyprus issue, which, as he points
out, must be within the framework of UN decisions and must respect EU
principles and values as well as the acquis communautaire.
He also said that a solution should be European but also Cypriot, in
the sense that Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots must be allowed to
discuss freely their common future as a member state of the EU, without
artificial deadlines, external pressure or threats and warnings that
this is the last chance for a solution to the Cyprus issue.
Speaking on Wednesday after a meeting with NATO General Secretary,
Anders Fogh Rasmussen at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Droutsas
referred to the recent meeting between Greek Prime Minister George
Papandreou with his Turkish counterpart Tayip Erdogan and said they
discussed the UN-led negotiations currently underway for a Cyprus
settlement.
|
