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    Cyprus hopes Azeris will reconsider direct flights

    Financial Mirror, Cyprus
    Aug 2 2005

    The Cyprus Government is looking into the spectrum of its relations
    with Azerbaijan, hoping that it will review its decision for direct
    flights to the occupied areas and will respect international law and
    the sovereignty of the Cyprus Government, Cyprus Foreign Ministry
    Permanent Secretary Sotos Zackheos has told CN?.

    Invited to comment on the illegal landing of an Azerbaijani aircraft
    at the airport in Turkish occupied Tymbou, Zackheos noted that Cyprus
    President Tassos Papadopoulos and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and
    Communications and Works George Iacovou and Haris Thrasou respectively,
    have sent letters of representation to their Azerbaijani counterparts.|

    The Cyprus Government has also informed the International Organisation
    of Civil Aviation and Eurocontrol on the issue and these organisations
    and countries, which are friendly to Cyprus, have made representations
    to Baku.

    "The Cyprus Government is also looking into Baku's relations with the
    EU and has already stated and decided that the EU's action plan with
    Azerbaijan cannot proceed until this country respects international
    law," he added.

    Eurocontrol has also postponed a scheduled meeting of regional
    cooperation that was due to take place in Ukraine with the
    participation of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine because of the
    illegal flights to the pseudostate.

    Cyprus has also expressed its disagreement with Azerbaijan's intention
    to become member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

    Asked how the issue of the political conflict between Armenia and
    Azerbaijan over the Nagorno Karabah region is associated, Zackheos
    said "the Cyprus Government is examining the whole spectrum of its
    relations with Azerbaijan, hoping that this country will review its
    decision on the direct flights and will respect international law
    and the sovereignty of the Cyprus Republic."

    "The Cyprus Government wants the development of relations (with
    Baku). The Republic of Cyprus depends its policy on the development of
    bilateral relations with all countries on the basis of the respect of
    international law and the principles of the UN Charter. At the same
    time, the principle of mutuality is taken into consideration at the
    countries' interstate relations," he concluded.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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