Eu/cyprus : Nicosia Ready to Challenge Trnc Direct Trade Regulation

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The Cypriot government has expressed its readiness to appeal to the European Court of Justice in order to avert the implementation of the regulation on direct trade of the EU with the Northern part of Cyprus. "We will use all the institutional and political procedures we have at our disposal, and even if the regulation is promoted in the end, we will appeal to the Court of the European Communities," Cypriot Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou said, on 21 April, after attending a meeting of the Committee on Foreign and European Affairs in the Cypriot parliament.

The statement comes as a reaction to the re-launch of an adoption procedure for the Council regulation on direct trade …