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Cyprus News Agency: News in English (AM), 01-03-16
CONTENTS
[01] Cyprus - Luxembourg
[02] British Shadow Secretary of State - Cyprus
[03] Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus
[04] Cyprus Stock Exchange
[05] Cyprus - Armenia - Parliaments
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[01] Cyprus - Luxembourg
Nicosia, Mar 16 (CNA) -- Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Lydie Polfer will
visit Cyprus beginning of June for talks with the government of the
Republic on issues relating to its accession course to the European Union.
Polfer was briefed about the progress Cyprus is making towards EU
membership and developments in the effort to solve the Cyprus question by
the Republic's Ambassador to Belgium Popi Avraam, who prior to her meeting
with Polfer, had presented her credentials to the Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Henri.
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[02] British Shadow Secretary of State - Cyprus
Nicosia, Mar 16 (CNA) -- Conservative MP Francis Maude, Britain's shadow
Secretary of State, has said Cyprus should definitely be in the first wave
of European Union enlargement, noting that the Republic is well ahead of
other candidate countries.
Speaking after a meeting here today with Cyprus Foreign Minister Ioannis
Kasoulides, Maude said the illegal Turkish Cypriot regime must free Greek
Cypriot Panicos Tziakourmas, abducted from the territory of one of the
British Bases and illegally held by the self-styled Turkish Cypriot regime
in occupied Cyprus on the pretext of drug possession.
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Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus
Nicosia, Mar 16 (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 8 FAIR
Larnaca 21 10 FINE
Limassol 23 11 FINE
Paphos 21 11 FINE
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[04] Cyprus Stock Exchange
Nicosia, Mar 16 (CNA) - The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) All Share Index
closed at today's stock exchange meeting as follows:
CSE General Index 196,86 ( 0,19)
Traded Value CYP 3.859.756
FTCE/CYSE 20 CYP 1.526.838 825,47 (-0,09)
Sectural Indices
Banks CYP 749.060 208,05 (-0,12)
Approved Investment
Companies CYP 310.427 187,58 (-0,03)
Insurance Companies CYP 9.061 76,48 (-1,68)
Manufacturing Companies CYP 144.766 72,87 (-0,40)
Tourism Companies CYP 399.751 133,42 ( 0,87)
Trading Companies CYP 144.418 51,66 (-0,14)
Offshore Companies CYP 0 105,00 ( 0,00)
Building and Cement Companies CYP 145.546 67,18 ( 0,49)
Énformation Technology
Companies CYP 272.490 52,40 ( 0,48)
Financial Services Companies CYP 263.168 36,73 ( 1,66)
Fish Culture Companies CYP 27.933 67,35 (-2,46)
Hotels CYP 515.149 94,52 ( 1,35)
Other Companies CYP 624.217 238,01 ( 0,15)
The third column presents the percentage variation of the indices as
compared to the last meeting.
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[05] Cyprus - Armenia - Parliaments
Nicosia, Mar 16 (CNA) – The further development of relations between Cyprus
and Armenia was at the focus of a meeting today in Yerevan between the
Cyprus House President Spyros Kyprianou and Armenia's National Assembly
President Armen Khachatryan.
They also discussed ways of reinforcing relations between the two
parliaments, in a bid to strengthen relations between the two peoples,
while the Armenian side thanked the House President for the treatment of
the Armenian religious group on the island.
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