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The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly had a very important debate on the Cyprus issue, on October 1st 2008.

The Assembly had been addressed by President Christofias on the previous day, and by Mehmet Ali Talat immediately preceding the debate itself, This is a video of the debate and also of the voting which followed before Resolution 1628 was passed at the end of the debate, by 99 'yes' votes and 20 'no' votes. The impact of watching the video, rather than just reading press reports only can not be overemphasised ...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4662851023561262099


The comments for the above video on its google page contain a link to video of the speech by President Demetris Christofias (in Greek) as well as the important question and answer session spoken in English.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4557342163624483756&hl=en


There is a link also to the English translation of the President's speech,

http://www.coe.int/t/dc/files/pa_session/sept_2008/20080930_disc_christofias_en.asp

and yet another link to the actual resolution which was so favourable for Cyprus.

http://assembly.coe.int/Mainf.asp?link=/Documents/AdoptedText/ta08/ERES1628.htm

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As a supplementary, there are links below to the verbatim texts of the Cyprus debate at the Council of Europe, provided in English at
the PACE website:

Verbatim text of proceeidngs on 30th September, with the section
of Presient Christofias' speech and QnA, at the very end of the
morning session:

http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Documents/Records/2008/E/0809301000E.htm

Verbatim text of the proceedings on 1st October. speech by
Turkish Cypriot leader, Mehmet Ali Talat, of the Report by the
Rapporteur on Cyprus, and comments by the legal committee, and
all other speeches:

http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Documents/Records/2008/E/0810011000E.htm

Report by Political Affairs Committee
Rapporteur: Mr Joachim HÖRSTER, Germany, Group of the European
People's Party
DOCUMENT 11699:
12 September 2008 - Situation in Cyprus

http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc08/EDOC11699.htm