THE EU President yesterday underlined the need for a serious and frank discussion on Turkey’s accession and for the first time referred to the fact that the negotiations scheduled to open on October 3 were “open ended”. He said this meant there was no commitment regarding the conclusion of the process.
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The time has come for both Greek and Turkish communities to put aside their historical differences and get into the business of constructive reconciliation.
AFTER years of delays, work to restore Apostolos Andreas Monastery is due to commence at the beginning of next month.
Recent visitors to the monastery, at the tip of the Karpas peninsula, have come back with serious concerns about the state of the building, warning that if something is not done soon, it may become too late.
MEDICAL officials said yesterday that Archbishop Chrysostomos was making a steady recovery and that his operation for a broken hip joint bone had gone smoothly.
They added that the Church leader was in a stable condition and was being kept under observation at the Nicosia General Hospital.
E.U. HEALTH and Consumer Affairs Commissioner Markos Kyprianou yesterday discussed the state of play in extending the Green Line regulation to cover animal products with a delegation from the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TCCI), led by the group’s chief Ali Erel.
POLICE ARE investigating reports that a number of crocodiles have been set loose in the Kouris Dam in Limassol.
The Agriculture Ministry held an emergency meeting yesterday to discuss ways to remove the crocodiles from the dam in the event that the reports prove true.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday suspended for six months the execution of arrest warrants for people who failed to pay their debts.
Using the authority bestowed on him by the Constitution, Papadopoulos signed a six-month suspension order for pending warrants against debtors.
NINE Turkish Cypriot artists who received awards for their contribution to art and culture by the north’s Turkish Bank were outraged to hear the same awards had also been given to former leader Rauf Denktash and have protested by returning their awards.
U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Sir Kieran Prendergast has advised against re-launching an intensive new process on Cyprus saying that such an action would be “premature and inadvisable”.
THREE Larnaca men remanded in custody last week in connection with the burglary of a house in Nicosia are to be kept in for a further eight days, after it emerged that they were suspected of carrying out five further burglaries.
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