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Cyprus News Agency: News in English (AM), 99-10-22Cyprus News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Cyprus News Agency at <http://www.cyna.org.cy>CONTENTS
0830:CYPPRESS:01[01] US - Cyprus - Peace effortWashington, Oct 22 (CNA) -- Top US envoys for Cyprus still have a lot of work to do to bring the Greek and Turkish Cypriot sides to the negotiating table under UN auspices, Jim Folley, State Department spokesman has said.He said meetings which Presidential Emissary Alfred Moses and Cyprus Coordinator Thomas Weston had in Ankara, Athens and Nicosia for this purpose were "productive and helpful". CNA DA/MM/GP/19991050:CYPPRESS:02[02] Italy - Cyprus - ResolutionNicosia, Oct 22 (CNA) -- Italian parliamentarians have called on their government to back Cyprus' accession to the European Union, irrespective of a solution to the island's continuing division and Turkish occupation.Rome is also urged to support the resumption of negotiations on the basis of UN Security Council resolution 1250 and help towards reconciliation of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities through bicommunal contact. CNA MM/GP/19991220:CYPPRESS:03[03] Cyprus - UN - Top envoyNicosia, Oct 22 (CNA) -- The Cyprus government is considering a proposal by the UN for the appointment of Peruvian diplomat Alvaro de Soto to the vacant post of UN Secretary-General's special representative for Cyprus, diplomatic sources told CNA today."The government has been informed in the past few days of Annan's intention and is looking into the matter," the sources said, noting that the government of the Republic wishes to facilitate the UN chief's task in this respect. CNA MM/GP/19991230:CYPPRESS:04[04] Finance Minister - House Finance CommitteeNicosia, Oct 22 (CNA) -- Prospects for the local economy in 2000 are "encouraging" Finance Minister Takis Klerides said, noting that all the basic macroeconomic indices present a satisfactory development and public finance divert from the desired direction.Addressing the House Finance Committee on next year's budget, he said the growth rate will range around four per cent, unemployment around 3,5 per cent, and inflation will mark a marginal increase which will depend on the adoption of a package of measures to increase public revenues. CNA GG/MM/GP/19991240:CYPPRESS:05[05] Sex education - BBC programmeNicosia, Oct 22 (CNA) -- A series of 15-minute radio programmes on sexual issues prepared by the BBC World Service in cooperation with the International Parenthood Federation (IPPF) go on air on local radio station "ANT1 FM" today at the initiative of the Cyprus Planning Association.The Greek language version of "Sexwise", running in 11 European countries, was produced in Cyprus and Greece this summer and will be aired on ANT1 programme "The citizen speaks" every Friday until December 24. CNA MA/GP/1999CNA ENDSCyprus News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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