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CYPRUS
1. Migration Information.
2. A Human Rights Report on Trafficking of Persons, Especially Women and Children, The Protection
Project, March 2002.
3. “Cyprus and Syria clamp down on illegal immigrants”, Reuters, 20 April 1999.
4. Statement by the Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr. Christodoulos Christodoulou at
the Ministerial Meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers of the Candidate Countries in the margin
of the Council of the EU Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs Brussels, 16 March 2001, http//:pio.gov.
cy/news/special _issues/special_issue040.htm.
5. Foreigners are all persons who are not nationals of Cyprus, except British and Irish nationals.
6. “The legislation relating to aliens and immigration in Cyprus”, Andreas Pavlakis in Migrazioni internazionali
e piccoli Stati europei: dalla storia all’attualità, Editor Ercole Sori.
7. Ibid.
8. Centre for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Austria: International Immigration and Nationality Law,
George Yiangou, Cyprus, Section 4 – Editors: Dennis Campbell and Susan Meek, Kluwn Law International
2002.
9. George Yiangou, Cyprus; Section 4.
10. Statement by the Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr. Christodoulos Christodoulou at
the Ministerial Meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Ministers of the Candidate Countries in the margin
of the Council of the EU Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs Brussels, 16 March 2001.
11. “Cyprus and Syria clamp down on illegal immigrants”, Reuters, 20 April 1999.
12. When Cyprus tried to return the migrants to Lebanon, gun boats initially prevented the Cypriot police boat
from docking. After this, Cyprus sentenced the 29 illegally entered migrants to 45 days jail for unlawful
entry, and concluded an agreement with Lebanon. Lebanon agreed to do more to prevent transiting of
migrants. Cyprus has, since then, significantly improved its border monitoring system. Source: “Cyprus
jails 23 boatpeople as deterrent”, Agence France Presse, 21 January 1999, and “Lebanon pledges
clampdown on illegal immigration”, Xinhau News Agency, 22 January 1999.
13. Statement of Mr Takis Hadjidemetriou, Coordinator for Harmonisation, in the first Euro-Mediterranean
Parliamentary Forum on Migration, Le Meridien – Limassol, 20 October 2003.
14. Justice and home affairs in the EU enlargement process – Cyprus; Justice and Home Affairs of the Republic
of Cyprus official website, http://www.cyprus-eu.org.cy/eng/09_position_papers/chapter_24.htm.
15. US Committee for Refugees, World Refugee Survey 2002 and World Refugee Survey 2003.
16. Ibid. The British base was created under the Treaty of Establishment in 1960 and spans some 98 square
miles of land in Cyprus.
17. Permanent Mission of the Republic of Cyprus to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe,
Vienna; Cyprus Situation Report on the Trafficking in Human Beings; PC.DEL/662/02; 5 September
2002.
* UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and its Smuggling and Trafficking Protocols:
Cyprus signed the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime on 12 December 2000, and
ratified the Convention on 22 April 2003. It signed the Trafficking Protocol on 12 December 2002, and
ratified the Protocol on 6 August 2003. Cyprus also signed the Smuggling Protocol on 12 December 2002,
and ratified this Protocol on 6 August 2003.