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CONTENTS

[01] Cyprus participates in EU Convention for Europe's future

[02] Kasoulides calls on Annan to assess behaviour of two sides

[03] Cyprus asks for special treatment for farmers from EU

[04] Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

[05] Cyprus Stock Exchange

[06] Government: Ship with migrants left Cyprus empty

[07] Germany is a very important tourist market for Cyprus

[08] US official says current period very propitious for Cyprus

[09] Cypriot political parties urge leaders to reach settlement

[10] Cyprus passports source of friction in occupied areas

[11] Cyprus ratifies dignity Convention and bans cloning

[12] Lanitis decorated by German Ambassador

[01] Cyprus participates in EU Convention for Europe's future

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Cyprus participates in EU Convention for Europe's future

by Maria Myles

Nicosia, Mar 20 (CNA) -- Cyprus has found itself for the first time, since it applied for European Union membership, on an almost equal par with member states through its participation in the Convention for the future of Europe, the government's representative to the Convention, Ambassador Mihalis Attalides, has told CNA in an interview.

[02] Kasoulides calls on Annan to assess behaviour of two sides

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Kasoulides calls on Annan to assess the behaviour of two sides

Larnaca, Mar 20 (CNA) -- Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides has urged the UN Secretary General to take seriously into consideration the behaviour of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot sides at the negotiating table, before he takes his next step.

He said Annan's statement on the direct talks, that started here mid January, was an encouragement to both sides to make some headway in the negotiations in the remaining two or three meetings before the UN chief is briefed in early April by his Special Adviser Alvaro de Soto, who conducts the talks.

"We hope that the UN Secretary General, in any future intervention, will take seriously into consideration the attitude of each side at the talks and will not act in the way he did in September 2000, bribing the side that causes difficulties at the expense of the side that does its job," Kasoulides said on his way to Sofia, to participate in a conference on European Union enlargement, organized by the British Foreign Office.

[03] Cyprus asks for special treatment for farmers from EU

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Cyprus asks for special treatment for farmers from EU

Brussels, Mar 20(CNA)--Cyprus Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Costas Themistocleous has called for special treatment of Cypriot producers by the European Union in order to avoid a reduction of their income.

Themistocleous, who was speaking at a meeting in Brussels of EU Agriculture Ministers with their counterparts from candidate countries, spoke of the peculiarities of Cyprus' agriculture and pointed out that the island does not receive any aid from other community programmes, like the rest of the candidate countries.

[04] Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

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Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

Nicosia, Mar 20 (CNA) -- Today's weather and temperatures for Cyprus,
according to the Meteorological Service at Larnaca International
Airport are:

Temperatures (degrees Celcius)
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Station               Maximum     Minimum       Weather
(At 1200 UTC)
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Nicosia                  22           9         FINE
Larnaca                  21           7         THUNDERSTORM
Limassol                 21          13         FINE
Paphos                   20          10         FAIR

[05] Cyprus Stock Exchange

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Cyprus Stock Exchange

Nicosia, Mar 20 (CNA) - The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) All Share
Index closed at today's stock exchange meeting as follows:

CSE General Index                              116.43  (-0,85)

Traded Value                  CYP  1.549.992

FTSE/CYSE 20                  CYP    802.783   485,58  (-0,64)

Sectoral Indices

Banks                         CYP    217.011   132,61  (-1,13)
Approved Investment
Companies                 CYP     58.483   103,86  (-0,24)
Insurance Companies           CYP      7.496    39,53  (-0,65)
Manufacturing Companies       CYP     20.621    59,28  (-0,27)
Tourism Companies             CYP    387.990    82,39  ( 0,24)
Trading Companies             CYP     42.991    28,43  (-0,42)
Building and Cement Companies CYP     59.719    57,02  ( 1,06)
�nformation Technology
Companies                 CYP     62.844     7,42  (-2,11)
Financial Services Companies  CYP    266.620    23,74  (-0,34)
Fish Culture Companies        CYP         20    19,90  (-0,50)
Hotels                        CYP     65.751    71,70  (-1,19)
Other Companies               CYP    294.606   118,16  (-1,57)

* The third column presents the percentage variation of

[06] Government: Ship with migrants left Cyprus empty

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Government: Ship with migrants left Cyprus empty

Nicosia, Mar 20 (CNA) -- Two government ministers denied that a ship, found off the Italian coast with some 1,000 migrants, had left Cyprus with its human cargo on board.

"The vessel was repaired at a local port some ten days ago and changed its name before leaving," Interior Minister Christodoulos Christodoulou said, commenting on press reports from Italy that the ship had sailed from either Lebanon or Cyprus' northern Turkish occupied areas.

[07] Germany is a very important tourist market for Cyprus

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Germany is a very important tourist market for Cyprus

Nicosia, Mar 20 (CNA) -- Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Nicos Rolandis has underlined the importance of Germany as a tourist market for Cyprus.

Rolandis, who was speaking at a press conference at the Berlin International Tourist Exhibition, said that many tourists from Germany visit Cyprus and there are prospects of increasing their number in the medium term.

[08] US official says current period very propitious for Cyprus

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US official says current period very propitious for Cyprus

Larnaca, Mar 20 (CNA) -- Face-to-face talks on the Cyprus problem are positive in themselves, according to a US official, who arrived in Cyprus today at this "very propitious time", adding his country would materialise its support to the talks in any way the parties asked for.

[09] Cypriot political parties urge leaders to reach settlement

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Cypriot political parties urge leaders to reach settlement

Nicosia, Mar 20 (CNA) -- Leaders and representatives of Greek and Turkish Cypriot political parties met today in Nicosia and issued a statement in which they "reiterate their support to the ongoing direct talks between the leaders of the two Cypriot communities under the auspices of the UN" and "urge the two leaders to reach a settlement the soonest possible".

During their meeting, which was organised as part of a series of meetings by the Slovak Embassy in Nicosia, the parties agreed to organise a bicommunal workshop of NGOs on April 6 at the Ledra Palace situated in the UN-controlled buffer zone in Nicosia, so as to give them the opportunity to come into contact.

[10] Cyprus passports source of friction in occupied areas

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Cyprus passports source of friction in occupied areas

Nicosia, Mar 20 (CNA) -- Turkish Cypriot organizations have protested against the introduction of a "bill" which makes it illegal for Turkish Cypriots to possess passports of the Republic of Cyprus and punishes the owners with two years imprisonment or heavy fine.

In their protest letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan which they sent by e-mail the partnership of 41 democratic establishments which call themselves "This country is ours Platform" state that the "bill" which aims to "liquidate the Turkish Cypriot community threatens our international identity, human rights, and the rights acquired in the negotiations of the 1960 Agreements for the establishment of the Republic of Cyprus".

[11] Cyprus ratifies dignity Convention and bans cloning

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Cyprus ratifies dignity Convention and bans cloning

Nicosia, Mar 20 (CNA) - Cyprus has ratified the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity regarding the practice of Biology and Medicine, which aims at protecting the dignity and identity of human beings and generally human rights in relation to biological and medicinal developments.

[12] Lanitis decorated by German Ambassador

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Lanitis decorated by German Ambassador

Nicosia, Mar 20 (CNA) - Honourary Consul of Germany in Limassol Costas Evagoras Lanitis was today decorated with the highest honour of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Cross of Merit, at a reception at the resident of the German Ambassador in Nicosia, in the presence of Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides.

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