Minimal Free Passage in Cyprus

Speaking at the Peace Operation anniversary ceremony yesterday, TRNC President Rauf Denktas pressured the opposition regarding their attitudes toward the Annan Plan and called for the people to punish the opposition at the October elections.

Meanwhile, Greek Cypriot Minister of Defense Kiriakos Mavronikolas stated that the gradual disarmament, urged by the US, was out of the question. Mavronikolas told the Athens newspaper To Vima that America had pressured Greece and the Cypriot Greek Side to disarm for a long time. Mavronikolas warned that with the Greece’s full membership to the European Union (EU) in May 2004, "’extremely dangerous" developments might occur in the region.

aa / Lefkosa (Nicosia) / CYPRUS