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able and the Karpas Greek-Cypriots should be permitted
to make private telephone calls from locations in the
Karpas other than police stations without the presence
of any official or other person’’;
(5) ‘‘Restrictions on hand-carried mail and news-
papers should be lifted’’;
(6) ‘‘Secondary schooling for Greek-Cypriots should
be facilitated in the Karpas, and teachers and school
supplies for the Greek-Cypriots should be allowed to be
provided from the south without hindrance’’;
(7) ‘‘All Karpas Greek-Cypriot students attending
secondary schools or third-level institutions in the south
should be allowed to return to their homes on weekends
and holidays’’;
(8) ‘‘Access to and religious use of the monastery
at Apostolos Andreas and the church there by the Greek-
Cypriots of the Karpas peninsula and their clergy should
be unrestricted’’;
(9) ‘‘Provision of funds from outside the northern
area should be permitted for the renovation and mainte-
nance of Greek-Cypriot schools and churches in the
Karpas area’’;
(10) ‘‘Karpas Greek-Cypriots should be permitted
visits by Greek-Cypriot doctors and medical staff’’;
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(11) ‘‘There should be no hindrance at any time to
children of Karpas Greek-Cypriots returning to their
family homes without formality’’;
(12) Karpas Greek-Cypriots should be allowed visits
from close relatives who normally reside outside the
northern part of Cyprus’’;
(13) ‘‘Karpas Greek-Cypriots should be allowed to
bequeath fixed property in Karpas to their next of kin
and in the event that such beneficiaries normally reside
outside the northern part of the island, they should be
allowed to visit bequeathed properties without hindrance
or formality’’;
(14) ‘‘Restrictions on UNFICYP’s freedom of
movement to and from as well as within the Karpas area
should be lifted’’;
(15) ‘‘Restrictions on the discharge by UNFICYP
of its humanitarian and other functions with regard to
Karpas Greek-Cypriots should be lifted and liaison posts
should be established where the greatest number of
Greek-Cypriots live in the north at the villages of
Rizokarpaso and Ayias Trias’’; ‘‘(The sole remaining
permanent UNFICYP presence in the Karpas, a small
liaison post, remains confined, with no freedom of move-
ment, in the village of Leonarisso, where only 9 Greek-
Cypriots still reside)’’; and
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(16) ‘‘All restrictions preventing offshore fishing by
the Greek-Cypriots of the Karpas should be lifted’’;
Whereas other restrictions on the freedom and human rights
of the enclaved include—
(1) a requirement that enclaved males aged 18 to
50 report once a week to those in control;
(2) harassment, beating, rape, and murder without
investigation; and
(3) lack of compensation for work performed;
Whereas 
United 
Nations 
Security 
Council 
Resolution
1062(96), inter alia, expressed regret that ‘‘the Turkish-
Cypriot side has not responded more fully to the rec-
ommendations made by UNFICYP and calls upon the
Turkish-Cypriot side to respect more fully the basic free-
doms of the Greek-Cypriots and Maronites living in the
northern part of the island and to intensify its efforts to
improve their daily lives’’; and
Whereas on July 31, 1997, Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides
and Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash agreed to fur-
ther address this issue along with other humanitarian is-
sues: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring), That the Congress—
(1) strongly urges the President to undertake
efforts to end restrictions on the freedoms and
human rights of the enclaved people of Cyprus; and
(2) will remain actively interested in the matter
until the human rights and fundamental freedoms of
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the enclaved people of Cyprus are restored, re-
spected, and safeguarded.
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