Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 07-05-30
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[01] COMMISSION RESUMPTION OF UN PROCEDURE FOR CYPRUS
[01] COMMISSION RESUMPTION OF UN PROCEDURE FOR CYPRUS
Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn has said the Commission underlines
the significance in the resumption of the procedure which will promptly
lead to complete negotiations under UN auspices to achieve an overall
settlement and is ready to help the UN achieve this aim.
The Commissioner was replying to a question by Cypriot Euro MP Marios
Matsakis in response to Turkeys non-compliance to the decision of the
European Court of May 2001 which ruled that Turkey is guilty for a wide
range of mass, systematic and continued violations of human rights in
Cyprus.
In his reply, Rehn said that the compliance of a signatory state to the
European Convention of Human Rights with a decision of the European
Court of Human Rights is monitored by the Council of Ministers which is
the relevant EU institution.
He said that fundamental issues which are pending are those such as
missing persons issue and the property issue whereby with the draft
resolution of the Council of Ministers of 3-4 April 2007, Turkey was
called to give immediate information on the issue.
The Commission, he added, underlines the significance of the resumption
of the procedure which will promptly lead to complete negotiations
under UN auspices for an overall settlement and is ready to help the UN
achieve this goal.
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