Cyprus parliament votes yes to Lisbon

1.07.24pm BST (GMT +0100) Wed 9th Jul 2008

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The House of Representatives of the Republic of Cyprus approved as 20th EU member state the Lisbon Treaty on Thursday 3 July. Cyprus is the first EU country to ratify the Treaty following Ireland's rejection of it.

Only a few days prior to the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty the Leaders of the Greek (Christofias) and Turkish (Talat) Cypriot communities met in a positive and cooperative atmosphere to review the work of the Working Groups and Technical Committees that were set up in March of 2008 with a view to start full fledged negotiations under the auspices of the UN. It is expected that these will start on 1 September.

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