Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 05-01-07

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CONTENTS

[01] Cyprus FM leaves for Brussels to attend EU meeting on Asia disaster

[02] Cypriot FM: Illegal regime’s proposal on exports an election firework

[03] Cypriot FM hopes excavations for missing persons will yield results

[04] Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

[05] Cyprus Stock Exchange

[06] Cyprus government: Israel’s position remains unchanged

[07] Cyprus government would welcome progress in issue of missing

[08] Cyprus government continues demining

[09] G/C representative to CMP: if grave located, exhumation should begin

[10] Semi-government sector to go on 24-hour strike on Monday

[11] AKEL and RÔP discuss prospects for solution

[12] Two socialist MEPs call for aid to Turkish Cypriots

[13] Government issues instructions about clearing of mines

[14] Cyprus to be represented at UN small island states meeting

[01] Cyprus FM leaves for Brussels to attend EU meeting on Asia disaster

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Cyprus FM leaves for Brussels to attend EU meeting on Asia disaster

Larnaca, Jan 7 (CNA) -- Cyprus Foreign Minister George Iacovou left for Brussels today to take part in the extraordinary meeting of the General Affairs and External Relations Council in Brussels to address the consequences of the tidal wave in Asia.

[02] Cypriot FM: Illegal regime’s proposal on exports an election firework

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Cypriot FM: Illegal regimes proposal on exports an election firework

Larnaca, Jan 7 (CNA) -- Cyprus Foreign Minister George Iacovou has described as a pre-election firework a proposal by so called prime minister in the Turkish-occupied areas Mehmet Ali Talat for the export of Greek Cypriot products through the illegal ports in the occupied areas to Turkey.

[03] Cypriot FM hopes excavations for missing persons will yield results

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Cypriot FM hopes excavations for missing persons will yield results

[04] Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

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Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

Nicosia, Jan 7 (CNA) -- Today's weather and temperatures for Cyprus,
according to the Meteorological Service at Larnaca International
Airport are:

Temperatures (degrees Celcius)
---------------------------------------------------------------
Station               Maximum     Minimum       Weather
(At 1200 UTC)
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Nicosia                 16            4           CLOUDY
Larnaca                 17            5           FAIR
Limassol                17            6           CLOUDY
Paphos                  18            7           CLOUDY

[05] Cyprus Stock Exchange

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Cyprus Stock Exchange

Nicosia, Jan 7 (CNA) -- The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) All Share
Index closed at today's stock exchange meeting as follows:

INDICES BASE VALUES: FTSEMed=5000, OTHERS=1000

TRADED VALUE                       288.814,03

GSE GENERAL INDEX                       73,51     1,30    269.359,89
FTSE/CySE 20                           341,99     1,21    214.050,90
MAIN MARKET INDEX                    1.024,33     1,11    203.404,78
PARALLEL MARKET INDEX                  925,60    -0,98      4.200,55
INVESTMENT COMPANIES MARKET INDEX      922,32     0,67     22.849,84
MAIN AND PARALLEL MARKETS INDEX      1.020,45     1,04    207.605,33
BANKS INDEX                          1.037,37     1,18    158.407,63
HOTELS INDEX                           896,79     2,01      5.838,00
ALTERNATIVE MARKET INDEX               876,48     1,98     49.890,44
FTSE Med (06/01/2005)                6.920,71     0,62

* The second column presents the percentage variation of the indices

[06] Cyprus government: Israel’s position remains unchanged

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Cyprus government: Israels position remains unchanged

Nicosia, Jan 7 (CNA) Israels policy on Cyprus has not changed, the Cyprus government has said today, following contacts with the countrys Ambassador in Nicosia and the Foreign Ministry in Tel Aviv.

[07] Cyprus government would welcome progress in issue of missing

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Cyprus government would welcome progress in issue of missing

Nicosia, Jan 7 (CNA) -- The Cyprus government would welcome as a positive step any progress in the issue of missing persons, government spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides has said, adding that no mass graves have been located so far in the northern Turkish occupied areas.

[08] Cyprus government continues demining

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Cyprus government continues demining

Nicosia, Jan 7 (CNA) -- The Greek Cypriot side, having cleared landmines in a specific area near the capital within the UN-controlled buffer zone, will proceed with further demining in Kaimakli, a Nicosia suburb, Government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides said here today.

[09] G/C representative to CMP: if grave located, exhumation should begin

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G/C representative to CMP: if grave located, exhumation should begin

Nicosia, Jan 7 (CNA) -- Actual exhumation of remains of persons listed as missing should begin, if current exploratory investigation in northern Turkish occupied Cyprus locates a mass grave, Elias Georgiades, representative of the Greek Cypriot side to the Committee of Missing Persons (CMP) has said.

[10] Semi-government sector to go on 24-hour strike on Monday

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Semi-government sector to go on 24-hour strike

Nicosia, Jan 7 (CNA) -- A total of 9.200 employees at 21 semi-government organizations will go on a 24-hour warning strike on Monday following a deadlock in negotiations to renew the collective agreements between them and the government.

The trade unions, representing workers at these organizations, have called their members to participate in Monday's strike by picketing outside their offices and to go on an indefinite strike as of 20 January.

[11] AKEL and RÔP discuss prospects for solution

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AKEL and RÔP discuss prospects for solution

Nicosia, Jan 7 (CNA) -- Representatives from the Greek Cypriot left-wing AKEL party and the Turkish Cypriot Republican Turkish Party (RTP) discussed today for about two hours the prospects for a political settlement within 2005.

[12] Two socialist MEPs call for aid to Turkish Cypriots

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Two Socialist MEPs call for aid to Turkish Cypriots

by Nicos Bellos

Brussels, Jan 7 (CNA) -- The vice-president of the socialist group in the European Parliament, responsible for ''a wider Europe'', Jan Marinus Wiersma and the Cyprus expert and rapporteur on the financial package for north Cyprus Mechtild Rothe have called for the allocation of EU aid to the Turkish Cypriots.

[13] Government issues instructions about clearing of mines

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Government issues instructions about clearing of mines

Nicosia, Jan 7 (CNA) -- The Cyprus government issued today instructions to the public with regard to clearing of mines that continues on Monday within the UN-controlled buffer zone, near built-up areas.

Mick Raine, director of the demining programme, said clearing of mines will take place Monday to Friday from 0700 until 1430 and controlled explosions to destroy the landmines will take place in early afternoon on each day, either on site or elsewhere if the mines can be transported.

[14] Cyprus to be represented at UN small island states meeting

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Cyprus to be represented at UN small island states meeting

Nicosia, Jan 7 (CNA) -- Foreign Ministry Permanent Secretary Ambassador Sotos Zakheos will represent Cyprus at the International Meeting for the 10-Year Review of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of the Small Island Developing States, which takes place in Mauritius from 10-14 January.

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