The government announced yesterday that the instrument of ratification of the EU Constitutional Treaty was submitted by the Cypriot Ambassador to Italy Stavros Epaminondas to the Legal Department of the Italian Foreign Ministry on October 6. The House of Representatives ratified the Constitutional Treaty on June 30, 2005 without a referendum by a 60% majority,

The International Police Association festivities began in Limassol on Wednesday. Welcoming delegates Justice and Public Order Minister Doros Theodorou said that the main aim of the police is to offer services to their fellow human beings and to their country and that this is achieved under difficult and adverse conditions. Police Chief Tasos Panayiotou said

Deputy President of the opposition party Democratic Rally (DISY) Averof Neophytou said that “things are getting worse at all levels” in the climate between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities. His remarks came after a regular meeting of leaders and representatives of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot political parties on Wednesday. The regular meetings

The initiative for the setting up of a coalition against discrimination, consisting of 12 Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot organisations, invites all NGOs and persons active or interested in combating discrimination, to a meeting for the purpose of setting up a Pancyprian confederation of all organisations against discrimination on the ground of gender, racial or ethnic origin,