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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 10-03-08
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[01] SPOKESMAN - TURKEY - ECHR DECISION
[01] SPOKESMAN - TURKEY - ECHR DECISION
The government has stressed that the European Court of Human Rights
(ECHR) should have been more careful and should have taken into
account, in a ruling it issued on Friday relating to Turkish occupied
Greek Cypriot properties, the fact there is a negotiations process
going on, with a view to solve the Cyprus problem, divided since the
Turkish invasion in 1974.
Asked to give the government position on the view that there has been
political intervention with the Court, Stephanou said that bearing in
mind that we are involved in a negotiating process, with all due
respect to the ECHR, the Court should have been more careful and should
have taken into account that fact.
The European Court (ECHR), in Strasbourg, said that the Immovable
Property Commission set up in the Turkish occupied areas of Cyprus is
an effective domestic remedy as far as property claims are concerned,
and urged Greek Cypriots to address their claims to the IPC. It also
said that Greek Cypriots must first exhaust all domestic remedies
before resorting to the ECHR, including applying to the so-called high
administrative court in the occupied areas of Cyprus, if the IPC remedy
is not to their satisfaction.
President Christofias is engaged in talks with the leader of the
Turkish Cypriot community Mehmet Ali Talat since 2008 with a view to
find a political settlement of the Cyprus problem.
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