Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation: News in English, 02-11-11

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From: The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation at <http://www.cybc.com.cy/>

CONTENTS

[01] HEADLINES

[02] PLAN UN

[03] SPOKESMAN PLAN

[04] DENKTASH RETURN

[05] PHILIPPINES CRASH

[06] MIDEAST NETANYAHU

[07] SWEDEN RUSSIA

[08] USA WEATHER

[09] WEATHER MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2002

[01] HEADLINES

All indications are that Mr. de Soto will hand to the President a UN blueprint on a solution of the Cyprus question.

-- Government Spokesman Michalis Papapetrou said Athens and Nicosia are making the last preparations in view of this afternoon's meeting and said it is a time of responsibility, requiring the greatest possible unity.

-- Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash is expected to return to the Turkish occupied north from New York on November 15.

-- A passenger plane, trailing smoke from its left engine, plunged into Manila Bay shortly after taking off from the Philippine capital today, with 18 of 34 people aboard killed or missing and presumed dead. And,

Israeli Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called today for the removal of Yasser Arafat's "terror regime" after a Palestinian gunman killed five Israelis, including a mother and her two children, in a kibbutz.

[02] PLAN UN

All indications are that Mr. de Soto will hand to the President a UN blueprint on a solution of the Cyprus question.

At the same time, the document will be handed by UN Deputy Secretary-General, Sir Kieran Prendergast to the Turkish Cypriot side in New York, where Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash is recovering from heart surgery.

The UN will also give the document to the permanent representatives to the UN of the three guarantor powers of Cyprus' independence, namely Britain, Greece and Turkey.

Earlier this morning, the President met with his close advisors, Attorney-General Alecos Markides, foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides, Government Spokesman Michalis Papapetrou and Undersecretary to the President, Pantelis Kouros.

The meeting was again repeated in the presence of Greece's Ambassador in Nicosia, Christos Panagopoulos during which the President had a telephone conversation with Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis. To

CyBC will air a special live broadcast from four fifty to six in the afternoon with news and link up with the Presidential Palace.

[03] SPOKESMAN PLAN

In statements to CyBC, Mr. Papapetrou said the situation whould be handled with patience, calm and firmness. He said it is a time of responsibility, requiring the greatest possible unity.

He expressed the view that after the plan is submitted there will be a period for negotiation but it will not be unlimited. He estimated it to be around one week.

Mr. Papapetrou said he hoped that if the Turkish side is not intransigent, then the remaining 28 days before the Copenhagen European Council are enough to find a settlement on all the issues which have been discussed a myriad of times.

[04] DENKTASH RETURN

According to the Turkish Cypriot press, doctors are expected to remove the second tube which is draining his lungs.

Commenting about the Annan plan, his close advisor, Ergun Olgun said there are points which do not satisfy the Turkish side.

He said Mr. Denktash will begin studying the plan in New York and when he returns to the occupied part of Cyprus, he will confer with Turkish officials, members of his illegal regime and Turkish Cypriot political parties.

[05] PHILIPPINES CRASH

Sixteen people, including two Australians, were rescued.

More than eight hours after the Fokker plane crashed into murky waters around 11 metres deep, only 14 bodies -- some still strapped in their seats -- had been recovered by rescue teams.

All hope of finding four others still missing had been abandoned. They were feared to have been trapped inside the plane, which was immediately filled with water as it sank into the muddy bottom of the bay.

Amateur video footage showed a trail of smoke from the left engine on the high-winged Fokker 27 plane just before it crashed into the bay, after taking off from Manila for the gambling centre of Laoag, 400 km north of the capital.

[06] MIDEAST NETANYAHU

A gunman slipped into Kibbutz Metzer, near the dividing line between northern Israel and the West Bank, and opened fire overnight, killing a woman visitor and the kibbutz's chief administrator who had been on guard duty.

The attacker then burst into a house and shot dead a 34-year-old woman and her two children, aged four and five, before fleeing.

The raid came just hours before the scheduled arrival of U.S. envoy David Satterfield to push a new peace "roadmap".

The proposal, part of efforts by an international "Quartet" made up of U.S., European Union, United Nations and Russian mediators, has drawn reservations from Palestinian officials and Israeli cabinet ministers, including Netanyahu.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the Metzer raid.

[07] SWEDEN RUSSIA

The Russian foreign ministry refused to comment on the report of the expulsions.

On Friday a court ordered three Swedes, seized by the police on Wednesday, to be held in custody on suspicion of passing secret documents to an unnamed foreign intelligence service.

Loss-making Telefon AB LM Ericsson is the world's biggest producer of mobile phone networks and is also involved in developing radar and missile guiding systems for the high-tech JAS 39 Gripen fighter plane, Sweden's main strike warplane.

Ericsson would not say what documents had been leaked, but a senior company source said they did not appear to have been linked to any military projects.

[08] USA WEATHER

State emergency management officials reported many people trapped and injured, homes flattened, trees uprooted and power lines downed, leaving thousands without electricity.

The storms left at least six people dead, including a young boy, in Tennessee and another five in Ohio, according to state officials and U.S. media reports.

Authorities said the number of victims was expected to grow as emergency workers sifted through the damage spread widely across the region.

The twisters, accompanied in some cases by fierce storms, swept northward during the day, moving from west Tennessee into middle northern counties of the state and into Kentucky.

[09] WEATHER

Winds will be south-westerly fresh breezes five beaufort, becoming locally strong, six beaufort. The sea will be moderate to locally rough.

Temperatures will rise to 23 C inland and on the coasts and 10 over the mountains.

Tonight, there will be local rain and isolated storms, gradually improving.

Winds will be westerly to north-westerly light to moderate, three to four beaufort and the sea moderate.

Temperatures will fall to nine degrees inland, 13 on the coasts and five over the mountains. einai taragmenh.

The fire hazard remains very high in all forest areas.

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