Annan plan downloads bring website to a crawl

THE CYPRUS News Agency website ground to a halt yesterday as the site was flooded by people trying to download the Greek translation of the final Annan plan. A spokeswoman from the semi-government organisation said the increase in traffic was due to huge numbers of people logging on to see the Greek version of the plan for the first time.

The huge interest made it impossible to access the site, forcing CNA to put the bulky plan elsewhere.

The spokeswoman said the plan would be redirected to another site today to avoid blocking access to the CNA internet site, a news service provider for subscribers.

The translation has also been posted on the PIO website at http://www.moi.gov.cy/pio
and on the government’s official website on http://www.cyprus.gov.cy/

The UN has also posted the original English version of the plan on htttp://www.annanplan.org

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.