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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 08-03-27
CONTENTS
[01] BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY - CYPRUS PROBLEM
[02] HOUSE PRESIDENT - CYPRUS QUESTION
[01] BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY - CYPRUS PROBLEM
Decisions about the settlement of the Cyprus problem must be taken by
the leadership and the people of Cyprus, British Foreign Secretary
David Miliband told a press conference on Human Rights.
Noting that he had already referred in his speech before the House of
Commons about the bi-zonal, bi-communal solution and that the role of
the UN, is absolutely essential to the Process, Miliband said,
responding to a question about the violation of human rights in Cyprus
by Turkey, that a settlement has to be made by people locally.
We can support it, but it is going to have to be done locally by
leadership, which is why the immediate meeting on his election of
President Christofias and Mr Talat that is important, that leadership
is important. But in the end it has to change people`s minds as well
because they have to vote for it in a referendum and I think that is
where the right balance has got to be struck, Miliband noted.
[02] HOUSE PRESIDENT - CYPRUS QUESTION
The House President has described as positive the climate following
last weeks meeting between the leaders of the Greek Cypriot and the
Turkish Cypriot communities.
The first meeting between Cyprus President Demetris Christofias and
Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat has created a positive climate,
House President Marios Karoyian has said, adding however that there is
still a long way to go.
Speaking to students of the Philosophical Schools of the Universities
of Athens and Palermo, Karoyian noted that as long as the Turkish
establishment dictates its terms on the Turkish Cypriot community,
things will be difficult.
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