29/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - Cypriot President Glafcos Clerides told the press, according to AFP, that President Prod's visit to Nicosia, last Friday, had been "full of encouraging messages for our country" (the Commission President told the Cypriot Parliament on this occasion that a political solution to the problem of Cyprus is preferable, while noting that "Cyprus will be one of the first countries to join the EU", states Agence France Presse). The Cypriot-Turk leader, Rauf Denktash, for...