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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 09-01-10
CONTENTS
[01] AKEL - GAZA VISIT
[01] AKEL - GAZA VISIT
A multi-party delegation from the left-wing AKEL party intends to visit
the Palestinian Territories and Israel on Monday, party spokesman
Andros Kyprianou has said. Heads of the delegation are MP Skevi
Koukouma and Christos Christofides, General Secretary of AKEL youth
branch EDON, who will carry a message of peace that the war in Gaza
must stop, Kyprianou added.
This offensive is not just against Hamas. Today most of the victims are
children about 300 - and non combatants and it is an affront to
humanity to allow the murder of innocent children for the sake of
political or other expediencies, he stressed. Kyprianou expressed
regret that the leadership of Hamas and of Israel has not accepted the
Security Council proposal for a ceasefire. The war must end as soon as
possible to allow peace efforts to yield results, he added.
The AKEL delegation will visit Israel and the Palestinian Territories
on Monday and Tuesday to meet parties, womens associations, youth
organisations while attempts are underway to meet representatives of
the Palestinian Authority. The message we want to convey is that this
war must end. We support efforts by those who wish for peace and oppose
war. We should all protect and work on the basis of international law
and the UN Charter if we want to have a better future with peace,
security and stability for everybody and not selectively, Kyprianou
said.
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