Markos Kyprianou

Markos Kyprianou
Márkos Kyprianoúis a Cypriot politician who served as a Minister of Foreign Affairs until his official resignation on 19 July 2011, following the events of the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base explosion. A member of the Democratic Party, he was formerly Cyprus's Finance Minister and the European Commissioner for Health. He tendered his resignation as Commissioner on 29 February 2008 to become Foreign Minister in the government of newly elected President Dimitris Christofias; the resignation took effect on 3 March 2008,...
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We have already taken all steps necessary. Once it has touched European soil, then we have raised all the measures we should take,
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It is a highly pathogenic and aggressive virus and we in the European Union have to deal with that.
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The message is that it's safe to consume poultry meat and eggs in the European Union.
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The fact we have avian flu in Europe does not affect the possibility of a human influenza pandemic.
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A global threat needs a global response. The European Commission will play an important role in that respect. We have to take the health and economic impact into account.
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The European Union (EU), we're dedicating a pledge of 100 million euros.
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The European Union can easily be described as the best prepared region in the world.
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We want a temporary ban. The proposal of the Commission today will be for one month so we have the time for further studies and research,
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There should be enough to cover the percentage of the population that each member state decides needs protection.
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We have offered assistance to Turkey and the measures we have taken against imports will be reviewed in the coming days, when we have the final test results.
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We hope this will never happen. In any event we will prepare properly,
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We have surpassed expectations by considerably exceeding the estimated overall financing gap of around US$1.2 billion, of which $1 billion is in grants.
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We have not yet reached the level of preparedness that we should have. This is a global threat and there is need for international action.
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We have not reached the level of (vaccination) preparedness that we should have,