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Cyprus PIO: News Update in English, 01-05-25
From: The Republic of Cyprus Press and Information Office Server at <http://www.pio.gov.cy/>
Friday, 25 May 2001
CONTENTS
- [01] Foreign Minister on developments in occupied area
- [02] Greek parliament calls for sanctions if Turkey doesn't comply with
Human Rights Court ruling
[01] Foreign Minister on developments in occupied area
Cyprus' Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides has said that the collapse of
the illegal government in the Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus will only
reinforce the Turkish side's intransigence in efforts for a settlement of
the Cyprus problem.
He also expressed regret and concern over a bomb attack yesterday against a
Turkish Cypriot opposition daily newspaper, "Avrupa".
[02] Greek parliament calls for sanctions if Turkey doesn't comply with
Human Rights Court ruling
The Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of the Greek parliament has
called on the Council of Europe to ask the Turkish government to conform
fully with the ruling and to make it clear to Turkey that if it does not do
so it will have to face sanctions.
In a resolution adopted unanimously on Wednesday, the Committee welcomed
the recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights which found Turkey
guilty of human rights violations in Cyprus, saying it constitutes an
official recognition of Turkey's responsibility internationally for the
violation of human rights in the part of Cyprus under its occupation.
Moreover, Greece's Deputy Foreign Minister Ms Elizabeth Papazoe, asked in
the Greek Parliament whether Greece intends to bring up the issue of
Turkey's non-compliance with the ruling of the European Court of Human
Rights at the next meeting of the EU Foreign Ministers, said that Greeece
would like the issue to be included in the common position adopted by the
EU member-states so that this would be one of the parametres that would be
taken into consideration when Turkey's relationship with the EU is
evaluated.
She said that the ruling was important firstly because it puts the
responsibility for human rights violations squarely on Turkey, which has
always tried to shift the responsibility onto the illegal regime in the
occupied area, and secondly because it stressed that there is only one
legal government on the island, that of the Republic of Cyprus.
From the Republic of Cyprus Press and Information Office (PIO) Server at http://www.pio.gov.cy/
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