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Cyprus News Agency: News in English (AM), 00-01-28
CONTENTS
[01] President Clerides - Lord Owen
[02] Clinton - Cyprus - State of the Union address
[03] UN Cyprus talks - Geneva
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[01] President Clerides - Lord Owen
Nicosia, Jan 28 (CNA) -- Former British Foreign Secretary Lord David Owen
expressed today the view that there are "good omens" in regards to
prospects for a solution to the Cyprus problem, expressing at the same time
certainty for the successful outcome of Cyprus-European Union accession
talks.
Owen, who is visiting Cyprus to speak at a conference organised by
"The Economist" on the theme "Cyprus and European Union: Priorities in
defence and foreign policy issues", was received today by President Glafcos
Clerides. Later today he will cross to the Turkish-occupied areas of the
island to meet Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash.
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[02] Clinton - Cyprus - State of the Union address
Washington, Jan 28 (CNA) - Cyprus was one of the issues US President Bill
Clinton referred to in his state of the union address, saying that his
country should be proud of its role. We should be proud of America's role
in promoting reconciliation between Greece and Turkey and in Cyprus,"
Clinton said. Clinton's presidential emissary Alfred Moses and other high
ranking US officials have been involved in efforts to settle the Cyprus
question for quite some time now.
Next week, Moses, State Department Coordinator Thomas Weston and US
Ambassador to Cyprus Donald Bandler will be in Geneva on the sidelines of
the second round of UN-led proximity talks.
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by Maria Myles
Nicosia, Jan 28 (CNA) - The UN will continue next week their probing
into the positions of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot sides on the four key
aspects of the Cyprus question (constitution, territory, distribution of
powers and security) with a view to ascertain whether there is any
consensus that would take the talks forward to a third round.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his special advisor Alvaro de Soto
will seek clarifications from both sides on the positions they outlined in
the first round of talks, in December in New York, in an attempt to "get
separate agreements on the iss ues under discussion with each side."
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