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[insan]

Turkish Cypriot ventures to get US aid


Saturday 12 February 2005, 8:37 Makka Time, 5:37 GMT


The plan is to ease the isolation of northern Cyprus

The United States will support businesses in breakaway northern Cyprus to ease the Turkish Cypriots' isolation.


The assistance programme is part of a $30.5 million aid package that Washington earmarked for the Turkish Cypriots last year as a reward for the strong "yes" vote they gave to a UN reunification plan in April.

The State Department on Friday announced that a US business delegation accompanied by an Ankara-based US diplomat would visit north Cyprus to boost business opportunities.

"Closing the economic gap between the sides will help pave the way toward a sustainable settlement," US ambassador Michael Klosson said.

US plan

Under the US initiative, Washington will provide expertise and technical assistance to Turkish Cypriot entrepreneurs to help them find new markets and identify new business opportunities.

"We plan to work with the banks and business community to help ensure that credit is readily available to small and medium Turkish Cypriot businesses."

The island's Greek Cypriot majority rejected the UN plan for reunification, ensuring that a divided island joined the European Union on 1 May and leaving Turkish Cypriots without the full benefits of membership.

Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkey occupied the northern third in response to an Athens-engineered military coup aimed at uniting the island with Greece.


http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/ ... 56E6E4.htm

[pantelis]

Under the US initiative, Washington will provide expertise and technical assistance to Turkish Cypriot entrepreneurs to help them find new markets and identify new business opportunities.

An "initiative" would also be useful and helpful to the people of my county, here in the US. Why don’t they help us also, instead of making cuts and more cuts, in domestic federal funding.
Most US states and counties are bankrupt! The US is going bankrupt. Each soul on this great USA, owes $36,000 to the bankers of the world, starting the minute he/she is born. Is dealing with "terrorists" and "evil enemies" a much easier task, than dealing with your debt?
I guess, it easier to borrow money these days, much easier than having to pay it back.
Remember one thing. No politician gives anything to anyone, without expecting anything in return. They do not have a soul, because gave it away as down-payment, when they entered politics.

[insan]

Nicosia voices intense displeasure over arrival on Thursday of U.S. delegation to Turkish-occupied north of Cyprus

NICOSIA (ANA/G. Leonidas) - The effort by the United States to promote direct business contacts with the Turkish-occupied north of Cyprus, with the arrival in the occupied north this coming Thursday, via the illegal airport at Tymbos, of a U.S. Commercial Attache and a business delegation, caused intense displeasure in Nicosia on Saturday.

The visit was announced at a press conference in the occupied north by U.S. Ambassador to Nicosia Michael Klosson and was confirmed by U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher. As stated by Klosson, the visit is included in the framework of the activities of an organisation which the U.S. set up especially for Cyprus, the Cyprus Program for Economic Growth-CyPEG.

The Cyprus government denounced the action of the Americans and lodged a demarche to the United States.

As wriiten in the newspaper "Fileleftheros" on Saturday, the foreign ministry lodged demarches in Nicosia and Washington, while the U.S. Ambassador was summoned late Friday to the Presidential Palace. According to the newspaper, President Tassos Papadopoulos expressed his displeasure to Klosson not only over the specific move, but also about "other matters which have recently arisen from American actions in relation with the Cyprus issue and the Turkish-occupied area."

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday stated that "the U.S. does not wish to see the Turkish Cypriots isolated" and termed as a bad result the fact that Cyprus was not reunited before Cyprus' accession to the European Union.

Rice's statements were made to European mass media, in which she also said that apart from economic aid "we are examining what more we can do."

On his part, Boucher confirmed on Friday that an American business delegation will visit the Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus, accompanied by the U.S. Commercial Attache of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.

Boucher noted that this delegation is consistent with our goal of easing the economic isolation of the Turkish Cypriots by expanding business contacts on an off the island."

Cyprus Commerce Minister George Lillikas described the move by the Americans as "an organised attempt by Washington aimed at sending political messages for the upgrading of the pseudo-state."



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TCs cannot wait Tassos forever It's time to move forward one way or another. Economic difficulties caused TCs to lose a lot.

[insan]

40 years of fruitless talks couldn't lead us way forward. To the contrary of that caused many TCs to flee from their homeland to other countries, brought them a vegetal life and bereaved them from many vital interests of life such as better health, better education, well nutrition, technological development, rugged individualism etc.


TCs have no time to waste for fruitless talks anymore.

[insan]

US Business Entourage Visits Northern Cyprus
Saturday, February 12 2005 @ 06:41 AM Central Standard Time
A delegation including Amer Kayani, the Counselor for Commercial Affairs of the US Embassy, and representatives of ten US companies will participate in a tour of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) on February 17th that was organized by the American Business Forum in Turkey (ABFT).


The delegation will meet with the chamber of commerce and industry representatives during their one-day visit. ABFT Chairman Halim Neyzi said yesterday this visit will be the first official step toward recognition of the TRNC.

The ABFT Chairman explained that the Forum is trying to develop Turkey's commercial relations with the third world countries and others adding: "US Ambassador to Ankara Eric Edelman had said at a news conference that the US administration had allocated $30 million for Northern Cyprus. We will try to help with that issue. If an electricity plant is needed or some innovations in the banking sector or investments in telecommunication are required, we will try to set up the infrastructure of these developments." The contact will be ongoing, Neyzi said as he drew attention to the importance of the inflow of US commodities and services to Northern Cyprus. This trip is a "first" Neyzi underlined. The companies participating in the delegation and their fields of operation are as follows: Shaw/Stone & Webster (infrastructure and energy), El Paso (energy), FedEx Express (mail and cargo), Cushman & Wakefield (real estate), Comcast (telecommunication), Oracle (software), GNC (vitamin and health products), World Trade Center (funding for small and medium sized enterprises), Raymond James (investment), American Express Bank (banking).


http://www.turks.us/article.php?story=2 ... mode=print

[boulio]

40 years of fruitless talks couldn't lead us way forward. To the contrary of that caused many TCs to flee from their homeland to other countries, brought them a vegetal life and bereaved them from many vital interests of life such as better health, better education, well nutrition, technological development, rugged individualism etc.


TCs have no time to waste for fruitless talks anymore.

take it up with turkey,some fanatics on the g/c side may have started this however turkey has continued it for the last 30 years.

[insan]

take it up with turkey,some fanatics on the g/c side may have started this however turkey has continued it for the last 30 years

Yeah, bullikkamu!


"Thanks" for your "fanatics" insisting on "majority rule" and denying TC existence as a "politically equal" state partner of GC community, in the last 30 years.

It was not the fanatics of GC side who started it. The ones who started it were those who believed that only the GC community had the right to self-determination. They believed they had the right to anything even the whole TC community have opposed it. Nothing has changed. The same groups of GCs and many of the Hellenic groups still have the same stance. The GC and Hellen fanatics are the ones who wrote the bloody side of this story. It didn't start with them, it didn't stop with them and it won't stop with them.

[boulio]

IF I HAD a dollar for all the times you mention hellene i would be a millionaire it seems you use it to deflect the truth about your miserable lives-TURKEY.

[insan]

You like it or not, agree with or not; there are two major groups of people in Cyprus. Group "A" constitutes %80 and Group "B" %20 of the citizens of Cyprus. The people of group "A" have much in common within likewise Group "B" have much in common within when compared to each other. Both groups had a bloody fight with each other in the past. While group "A" was fighting to be the sole ruler of Cyprus; group "B" was demanding to be the "politically equal" partner of group "A" otherwise seperating the roads for each groups respectively. It was and is obvious that anything less than giving them the full control of Cyprus and 5 millennium aged ancestral lands wouldn't be and won't be satisfactory for themselves. Considerably crowdy groups in Group "A" have always treated TCs differently for instance "Ottoman collonists", "Barbarian, ignorant Turks", "Trojans of Turkey", "Dogs" etc, they prohibitted the inter-marriage but nevertheless the same sub groups of Group "A" have claimed that there was/is only one group of people in Cyprus therefor majority rule; minority obey... The fact is that, "minority" have never obeyed and will never obey such "majority" in their homeland. Either Group "A" will acknowledge Group "B" as its "politically equal" state partner or otherwise the roads will be seperated...

[insan]

IF I HAD a dollar for all the times you mention Hellene i would be a millionaire it seems you use it to deflect the truth about your miserable lives-TURKEY.

Bulli,

Whad ya mean maan?

All Hellenes are free to think whatever they want and get orginized to strugle, fight for what they believe is right; so do the Turks. Watz yer prob widh it?