"Cypriot speaker slams US allegations as 'not objective'
www.chinaview.cn 2005-03-03 05:12:08
NICOSIA, March 2 (Xinhuanet) -- President of the Cypriot House of Representatives Dimitris Christofias on Wednesday reprimanded the US allegations in its annual human rights report as 'not objective and arbitrary.'
Christofias said such allegations would not help maintain good bilateral relations and indicated that the United States continues its punitive measures on the Greek Cypriots 'because they dared reject a UN-proposed solution plan which the US fully backed.'
The plan, sponsored by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, was rejected by Greek-Cypriots in an referendum last April because the Cypriot government held that it would solidify the island's division and meet the interests of the Turkish side. "
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