"US pledges support for Turkish Cypriot businesses
AFP: 2/11/2005
NICOSIA, Feb 11 (AFP) - The United States will support businesses in breakaway north Cyprus in a bid to ease the Turkish Cypriots' isolation and boost efforts to reunify the island, the US ambassador said Friday.
The assistance programme is part of a 30.5-million-dollar 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, ambassador Michael Klosson told a news conference. "
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