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Article: Turkish Cypriot's decision on movement illegal: Cypriot government
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- April 22, 2003
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Turkish Cypriot's decision on movement illegal: Cypriot government
NICOSIA, April 22 (Xinhua) -- The Cypriot government on Tuesday
termed as "illegal" a decision by the Turkish Cypriot side to lift
most restrictions on the movement of people between the island's two
sides.
"This decision is illegal, it is an attempt to divert the
attention of the international community from the negative stance of
the Turkish side with regard to the UN peace effort to find a
negotiated settlement," government spokesman Kypros Chrisostomides
said.
Chrisostomides made the comment after an extraordinary meeting of
the National Council, the top advisory body of the country's
president on the handling of the ...