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PRESIDENT DEMETRIS Christofias yesterday said he would not seek a second term in office if there was no solution to the Cyprus problem by 2013, responding to critics who claim he is delaying in the talks to get re-elected.
Speaking yesterday during a televised press conference on his two years in office, Christofias said the accusation that he was stalling in the talks so hardliner Dervis Eroglu could become the next Turkish Cypriot leader was “truly an affront and an insult”. He added that ending the Turkish occupation and reunifying the island’s people was “a vision and a lifetime goal” for him.
PRESIDENT Christofias yesterday said he had no intention of standing for re-election if he failed to solve the Cyprus problem. If, on the other hand, there was a settlement he implied that he could seek office again.
He could not have made his commitment to a settlement more convincing than by linking it directly to his political future. It backed his assertion that the main reason he stood for the presidency was to solve the Cyprus problem and that he would consider it a failure if he did not achieve his objective. Although he had said these things before, at different times, it was the first time he had been so persuasive.
PRESIDENT DEMETRIS Christofias yesterday urged Greek Cypriot refugees to “ignore” the Immovable Property Commission (IPC) in the north, saying that mass recourse to the commission would only harm the country politically.
Speaking during a press conference on his two years in power, the president was asked to comment on the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) latest decision to recognise the IPC as an effective domestic remedy.
“I don’t think mass appeals (to the IPC) will benefit the place politically, they would rather harm,” he said, adding, “My own call is for people to ignore the ‘commission’.”
DEPUTIES yesterday called for a coordinated effort to avert any football-related violence over the weekend, when Nicosia arch rivals APOEL and Omonia are set to meet in a crunch match.
The local derby, considered one of the most high-risk when it comes to policing, is of great significance for the championship and following last week’s violent outburst by APOEL fans in Limassol, it will take draconian measures to ensure all goes smoothly.
“We are nearing the end of a football championship that once again has been marred by violence,” Chairman of the House Legal Affairs Committee, DISY’s, Ionas Nicolaou said yesterday. “Yet again, we came dangerously close to mourning victims,” he said of last Sunday’s violence.
IN CYPRUS you stop being young when you reach 45 but you’re not considered old until you reach 67, according to a poll by the European Social Survey.
The organisation took in 21 European countries and more than 40,000 respondents to establish its findings, which indicated for the most part that age, like beauty, was based on the perception of the beholder.
According to the results youth was perceived to end earliest in Nordic countries such as Norway – at the age of 34 – compared to countries on the other end of the scale like Cyprus, where the average perception is that you stop being young at 45 but you don’t start being old until 67.
GOVERNMENT doctors yesterday nearly came to blows during a closed House Health Committee session, with MPs expressing shock at the medics “appalling behaviour”.
“I’ve never experienced anything like it. They were swearing and screaming at each other… they nearly came to blows,” one MP said after the meeting on condition of anonymity because it was a closed session.
The fight was sparked by disagreements between the doctors of Nicosia and Limassol General Hospitals’ Cardiology Units.
Their differences mainly concerned working hours and the units’ operation, as well as certain doctors’ refusal to be transferred to the Limassol unit.
THE STATUS of halloumi cheese, hanging in the balance for years, was yesterday definitively settled after lawmakers agreed to send the ‘halloumi file’ to the European Union.
In the European Union, halloumi is protected as an appellation of origin and has been registered as a trademark in the U.S. and Canada. However, the safety of the patent was brought into question due to a local dispute over the product’s recipe.
Mainly because of a shortage of milk, some insist that halloumi should be made of sheep and goats milk only, while the dairy industry argues that cows’ milk should be blended.
A CONVICTED murderer intends to sue the former prison governor for allegedly tarnishing his reputation by linking him with the theft of former president Tassos Papadopoulos’ body.
Andreas Aristodemou, also known as Yiouroukkis, made his intentions public yesterday through daily newspaper Politis.
In a letter passed on to Politis by his lawyers, Aristodemou said he intended to file a defamation lawsuit against former prison governor Panikos Kyriakou in the next few days.
In the letter his lawyers also conveyed their client’s dismay “for the unprovoked, unjustified and malicious attempts by some to link his name with the case of the theft of Papadopoulos’ body”.
AUTHORITIES are looking for a fourth suspect in connection with the theft of former president Tassos Papadopoulos’ body, recovered earlier this month, a court heard yesterday.
Police have three suspects in connection with the theft of Papadopoulos’ remains, including convicted murderer and rapist Antonis Prokopiou Kitas who is thought to to be the mastermind.
A court yesterday ordered the detention for a further eight days of Indian national Sabrjit Singh, 31, and Kita’s 48-year-old brother Mamas.
All three have admitted to carrying out the theft, though police are investigating certain claims the convict made, the court heard.
Singh also named a fourth suspect whom police are seeking for questioning.
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.
