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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 13-03-28
CONTENTS
[01] Foreign Minister: The times demand responsibility
[02] Communications Ministry: Business as usual for Cyprus shipping
industry
[01] Foreign Minister: The times demand responsibility
The times Cypriot Hellenism is going through are so difficult that they
demand responsibility, unity and collective action," Minister of Foreign
Affairs Ioannis Kasoulides said on Wednesday, noting that anyone who
thought the financial crisis would lead to the acceptance of any solution
to the Cyprus problem would be disappointed.
In a speech at the presentation of a book by Leonidas Leonidou on the
crimes of the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus and the national cleansing
in the Turkish occupied areas, Kasoulides said "in no case will Cyprus
fall victim of blackmail concerning the handling of the Cyprus problem."
"Let us make sure that the future generations will experience the goods
of peace and never the unbearable pain that our generation experienced,"
he said, noting that "the Cyprus problem, which is a problem of invasion
and occupation, was and is a top national priority of the political
leadership."
[02] Communications Ministry: Business as usual for Cyprus shipping
industry
The Department and the Registrar of Cyprus ships have been and will
continue to operate as usual, an announcement by the Ministry of
Communications and Works says.
Following the Eurogroup decision on Cyprus, and the "speculative
information which is currently circulating" the Ministry notes in the
announcement that "the situation which has emerged has no direct or
indirect effect on the Cyprus tonnage tax scheme".
"Unlike the other tonnage tax schemes, the Cyprus scheme is one of
the schemes for which the European Commission has determined that it
complies with the European Union State Aid policy" it is added, noting
that "the Cyprus tonnage tax scheme is ‘locked' for ten years".
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