Cypriot President attends Orthodox Church ceremony marking national day

Описание: (1 Apr 2013)
1. Wide of soldiers standing to attention at ceremony marking Greek Cypriot National Day
2. Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades inspecting soldiers
3. Wide tilt down of interior of church, congregation crossing themselves
4. Mid of Anastasiades sitting with priests in church, crossing himself
5. Wide pan from Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Cyprus to church officials singing
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicos Anastasiades, President of Cyprus:
"We're not expecting anything from Greece. Therefore we have to, I mean, it is not a duty of Greece, or, they owe nothing to us. So, we have to fight ourselves. And to build up the new era."
7. Low angle of service inside church
8. Close-up of men singing
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicos Anastasiades, President of Cyprus:
"Growth, incentives for growth, and we are going to work towards that end. Thank you."
10. Close-up of top of church with Greek flag flying
11. Wide pan of church
STORYLINE:
Cyprus' president Nicos Anastasiades attended a church service on Monday to mark Greek Cypriot National Day - a bank holiday in Cyprus.
April 1 is the anniversary of the start of a guerilla campaign against British colonial rule, which ended after Cyprus gained independence in 1960.
Speaking after the Orthodox Christian service, Anastasiades said that Cyprus was not seeking any emergency aid from Greece to help deal with the country's banking crisis.
"We're not expecting anything from Greece," he said, adding: "They owe nothing to us, so, we have to fight ourselves."
Anastasiades said the nation's priority was finding incentives for growth.
Stock markets across Europe have been closed since Friday for the Easter holiday.
It will not be until Tuesday that investors will see how markets react to events in Cyprus, where banks reopened on Thursday for the first time in nearly two weeks.
Fearing that savers would rush to pull their money out once banks reopened, Cypriot authorities have imposed a raft of restrictions on financial transactions, including daily withdrawal limits of 300 euros (384 US dollars) for individuals and 5,000 euros for businesses.
These are the first so-called capital controls that any country has applied in the eurozone's 14-year history.
The bank run didn't materialise on Thursday as Cypriots appeared to take the measures in their stride, lining up patiently to do their business and defying dire predictions of scenes of pandemonium.
Cyprus accepted a bailout deal last week that would safeguard small savers, but in which depositors with more than 100-thousand euros in the country's two most troubled banks would lose a big chunk of their money.
Officials said on Saturday that big depositors at the Cyprus' largest bank - Bank of Cyprus - may be forced to accept losses of up to 60 percent, far more than initially estimated under the European rescue package to save the country from bankruptcy.


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