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Cyprus: Turkey

Volume 497: debated on Thursday 22 October 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what his most recent estimate is of the number of settlers from mainland Turkey who are resident in the north of Cyprus who took residence in that region (a) following the invasion of Cyprus in 1974 and (b) since the referendum in 2004; and if he will make a statement. (293697)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information his Department holds on the (a) volume and (b) monetary value of trade between Turkey and Cyprus; and if he will make a statement. (293706)

The Government do not hold any information on trade between Turkey and Cyprus. The most recent publicly available figures are from the Turkish Foreign Trade Under-Secretariat in 2007. Exports from Turkey to the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) equalled US Dollars ($)1.394 million, and imports from RoC to Turkey equalled $8,615 million. Volume of trade equalled $10.01 million.