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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 11-07-06
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[01] BARROSO - GENEVA MEETING
[01] BARROSO - GENEVA MEETING
President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso has call on
both leaders, President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader
Dervis Eroglu, to intensify the negotiations so as to ensure a
successful outcome of the Geneva meeting and to rapidly take the next
steps towards a settlement. They can count on the strong support of the
European Commission, he said, noting that all the citizens of Cyprus
and the European Union as a whole will benefit from a united Cyprus.
In a statement ahead of the meeting of UN SG Ban Ki-moon with the
leaders of the two communities in Cyprus, Demetris Christofias and
Dervis Eroglu, on 7 July in Geneva, Barroso said that more than seven
years after Cyprus` accession to the European Union a comprehensive
settlement of the Cyprus problem is overdue. A mutually agreed
settlement will be the basis for the long expected reunification of the
country and end one of the oldest conflicts on European soil, he
stressed.
Barroso pointed out that in order to achieve this goal, a breakthrough
in the talks is necessary. I am confident on the political will of the
leaders of the two communities in making all the necessary efforts to
progress towards a satisfactory final solution, he added.
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