"Experts almost finished de-mining Nicosia airport area
By George Psyllides
DE-MINING of the area near Nicosia airport has almost finished and work would be starting in the Kaimakli area next week, it was announced yesterday.
Work to clear 3,000 anti-personnel and anti-tank mines in eight minefields, laid in the buffer zone by the National Guard in 1974, started late in November.
According to an official announcement, 1,203 mines � 874 anti-tank and 329 anti-personnel � have been removed from the minefield northwest of the Nicosia airport.
Work was expected to finish within the next few days and clearing of a minefield in the suburb of Kaimakli northeast of Nicosia.
Government spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides renewed the government�s call to the Turkish side to follow suit."
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