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The Cyprus government on Wednesday confirmed reports that it has given notice to all other European Union (EU) countries of its intention to block further progress in Turkey's negotiations on EU entry. Cyprus President Demetris Christofias has written to all other European heads of state or government, saying that Turkey must fulfill all its commitments under an agreement with the EU requiring that...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Cyprus has given notice to all other European Union countries that it will take action to block further progress in Turkey's negotiations to join the block, the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CYBC) reported on Tuesday night. It said the position of the Cyprus government on the issue was set out in a letter by President Demetris Christofias to all other European heads of state or governments, ahead...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Cyprus President Demetris Christofias said on Friday that social changes in recent years have affected many children's welfare, resulting in anti-social behavior, violence and the use of narcotic substances. "The institution of the traditional Cyprus family of two parents and their children has not remained untouched," he told a gathering organized by the Commissioner for Children's Rights...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Cyprus government rejected on Wednesday a Turkish proposal for a five-party conference under the United Nations' supervision to discuss a solution of the Cyprus problem. Cyprus President and Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias stated that the proposal was reminiscent of a procedure followed in 2003, which resulted in a UN plan rejected by 74 percent of Greek Cypriot voters as one-sided. He...
EPP ED (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The EPP Group in the European Parliament today conducted a public hearing on the need for a global solution to maritime piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the Somali Basin. "The specific nature of the Somali situation gives the EU a real opportunity to consolidate its political dimension. The EU must confirm its status as a global player on the world stage by making use of all of the tools at its...
EPP ED (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
With the launch of Operation Atalanta in December 2008, the European Union has declared itself the standard bearer of the international fight against piracy in the Gulf of Aden, thus also renewing the international community’s interest in Somalia. For the EPP Group in the European Parliament EPP Vice-President Ioannis Kasoulides is organising an in-depth expert hearing with the aim of searching...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Cyprus President Demetris Christofias has "noted positively" an offer by Britain to hand back part of its bases in Cyprus at a meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London. In a written statement issued in Nicosia on Wednesday night, the Greek Cypriot leader made not further comment on the British offer, but called for British efforts to find a solution to the Cyprus problem....
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Guyana’s Ambassador to Brussels, Patrick Gomes, has now been accredited as Guyana’s High Commissioner to Cyprus. The President of the Republic of Cyprus Mr. Demetris Christofias, Monday received, at a formal ceremony at the Presidential Palace, the credentials of the High Commissioner of Guyana, with residence in Brussels, Patrick Gomes. Gomes, in presenting his Letters of Credence, [...]...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali met Cyprus President Demetris Christofias on Monday and said he is confident that a solution to the long standing Cyprus problem is possible. Boutros-Ghali, on a private visit in Cyprus to meet law associates and old acquaintances, added that because there had been failures it does not mean that efforts to reach a settlement must stop. "There is...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Cyprus voiced its support Saturday for India's aspiration to be a permanent member in an expanded UN Security Council. Cyprus President Demetris Christofias told a state banquet in honor of visiting Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil that Cyprus considers India as a very important country, at the regional as well as at the international level. "Should a decision on the reform of the UN...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
CYPRUS: President of Cyprus Demetris Christofias on Saturday reiterated his country’s support for India’s claim for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council. Mr. Christofias said this at a meeting he had with ...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Cyprus President Demetris Christofias said on Friday that he had received European Union assurances that an exception on property issue afforded to the Czech Republic cannot in any way extended to Cyprus. The exception gives the Czech Republic an opt-out from a charter of fundamental rights that is attached to the Lisbon Treaty, so as to be protected from property claims from ethnic Germans who were...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
The president of Cyprus, Demetris Christofias, warned the European Union against appeasing Turkey in the way Germany was treated before World War II.
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Demetris Christofias, president of Cyprus, has painted a gloomy picture of the prospects for overcoming the island’s division, saying negotiations between Greek and Turkish Cypriots were making little progress
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias warns concessions to Ankara could backfire as talks on divided island hit trouble The president of Cyprus today urged Europe to get tough with Turkey, likening the EU's concessions to Ankara to the appeasement of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, and playing down expectations of any breakthrough in the quest for a settlement of 35 years of partition in Cyprus. Demetris...
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