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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 11-04-17
CONTENTS
[01] EU INTERIOR MINISTERS - IMMIGRATION
[02] PRESIDENT CYPRUS WINE COMPETITION
[01] EU INTERIOR MINISTERS - IMMIGRATION
A Ministerial meeting will take place next week in Cyprus with the
participation of EU Ministers from the six Mediterranean states, which
are faced with disproportionate mass immigration flows. EU Ministers
from Cyprus, Greece, Malta, France, Spain and Italy, responsible for
immigration issues, will gather in Nicosia on April 19th, at the
invitation of the Minister of the Interior Neoclis Sylikiotis.
The Nicosia meeting will focus on the situation in North Africa and the
Middle East and immigration flows which exert disproportionate pressure
on the six EU Mediterranean countries.
According to an official press release, the meeting will discuss the
need for a comprehensive management of immigration flows in the EU
framework, based on the principle of solidarity among EU member states.
During the meeting, the Ministers will put forward common proposals in
a Joint Communique, which will then be submitted to the next EU Council
of Justice and Interior Ministers.
[02] PRESIDENT CYPRUS WINE COMPETITION
The annual Cyprus Wine Competition sends a message of optimism that
local wine production can actually find its place high on the world
wine map, President Demetris Christofias has said.
Addressing Saturday evening a gala dinner organized to mark the 6th
Cyprus Wine Competition, in the southern coastal town of Limassol,
President Christofias said that the wine-making sector in Cyprus is
going through a transitional period, having to adjust to new
circumstances, but noted that any problems faced in the wine industry
are being dealt with.
President Christofias said that serious efforts are being made, through
long lasting strategies, to resolve any problems that could hinder the
evolution of a healthy and sustainable wine making sector.
Addressing the 6th Cyprus Wine Competition event, Minister of
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Enviroment, Demetris Eliades,
said the government has a strategy which aims to upgrade the quality
and enhance the competitiveness of the wine sector to the best benefit
of the economy, the wine producers and the consumers.
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