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http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=31629

Larnaca port to get special area for Turkish Cypriot exports
By Nassos Stylianou
FOREIGN MINISTER Giorgos Lillikas has put forward a new government proposal regarding direct trade with the north in a meeting he had with his German counterpart yesterday.

The government claims the plan is part of a continuing initiative to enhance financial support for Turkish Cypriots.

An important part of the proposal is the assignment of a designated area at Larnaca port for the export of Turkish Cypriot products, providing that they have been checked and cleared from Turkish Cypriot employees. Turkish Cypriots will also be exempt from paying additional taxation.

The move has been welcomed by government officials, with House Chairman Demetris Christofias, who said his party is behind any government initiative to increase financial support for Turkish Cypriots in the north.

“My party is fully behind any move by the government for enhancing the financial situation of the Turkish Cypriots. The state has an obligation to provide alternative suggestions on legally and politically wrong position on direct trade,” the AKEL General Secretary said yesterday.

The government has consistently opposed the package on direct trade that was devised in June 2004, saying that if the EU allowed its implementation, it could lead to political recognition for the illegal state in the north.

Opposition party leader Nicos Anastassiades was a little more sceptical of the plan, saying that concessions should not be made without receiving anything in return.

“As a matter of principle, our party is not against any progress in the matter of financially boosting the Turkish Cypriot community, but if there is no dialogue about these measures, they could have a detrimental outcome.

“When decisions are taken without anything given back, then the other side will continue to demand more and more things,” he said.

This development comes in a week that the government was accused by the Turkish Cypriot side of using UN-sponsored talks aimed at setting up technical and working committees, known as the July 8 process, to block EU trade with the north.

On Tuesday, the UN Security Council had called on the two sides in Cyprus to implement the July 8 agreement and urged the crossing at the end of Ledra Street to be opened, two moves that would prepare the ground for negotiations for a comprehensive solution.

Christofias said that the talks were moving forward before Ankara appeared to have pulled the plug on the discussions for the time being.
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Good to see the RoC has taken a step forward re trade issue. I hope this is an interinm recomendation till a unifed Cyprus is created where we all share one united Commerce of Trade.