Cem to visit the north tomorrow

TURKISH Foreign Minister Ismail Cem is to pay a previously unscheduled visit to the occupied north of Cyprus tomorrow.

A Turkish Foreign Ministry announcement in Ankara yesterday said that during his one-day visit to the north, Cem will hold talks with Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash and other ‘officials’.

Cem’s unscheduled visit will follow the talks this week in Athens between President Glafcos Clerides and Prime Minister Costas Simitis, which focused primarily on the question of deployment of the controversial S-300 missile system on the island.

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