THE GOVERNMENT was the victim of a hoax yesterday when Turkish newspaper Hurriyet published a photo and article saying President Tassos Papadopoulos had met an envoy of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in Nicosia at the weekend.
Sir,
Can a President or Prime Minister of an EU country own a Solicitors Firm
while in office?
Could someone answer my question please?
N. Xenophontos, Larnaca
Sir,
I congratulate you on printing the article by Piers Morgan on the forthcoming royal wedding – it was much needed. But I suggest Mr Morgan replaces all the references to “the nation”, “everyone” and “people’ by a single word – Women.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos said yesterday the passage of time was not helping towards solving the Cyprus problem, but added that accepting the Annan plan would have been worse.
Papadopoulos was speaking before his departure for Brussels to participate in a meeting between EU heads of state and government and US President George Bush.
IN RESPONSE to the government’s drive to limit retail business working hours and merchandise, kiosks and convenience stores yesterday stopped selling state lottery tickets, but stopped short of warning of more drastic measures.
PARENTS of deaf children yesterday charged that the state’s refusal until five years ago to look into the potential of cochlear implants had left dozens of children completely deaf.
The deaf children’s parents association told the House Human Rights Committee that the authorities kept ignoring their calls for cochlear prosthesis for four years, between 1996 and 2000.
POLICE yesterday rubbished claims that a man investigated for selling stolen cruise missiles with nuclear capabilities to Iran was murdered in Cyprus.
Assistant to the Chief of Police Soteris Charalambous said the police had concluded without a doubt that 53-year-old Sarfraz Haider had died on January 24, 2004, from a quad motorbike accident.
THE government has sent inspectors to supermarkets and food importers in an effort to ensure consumers are not exposed to any products contaminated with the illegal dye, Sudan I.
BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair has asked Ankara to show more flexibility and not to raise obstacles in EU-NATO relations because Cyprus and Malta are members of the union but not the alliance, according to Turkish sources.
ALITHIA: “Euro-welcome” Commenting on the Turkish Cypriot elections the daily said the EU scrambled, just a few minutes after Mehmet Ali Talat’s triumph, not only to congratulate him but bring up accession of the occupied areas with the bloc and direct trade. At the same time, the US commended the fair and democratic elections, Alithia said.
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