NICOSIA: A Cypriot publisher has pledged to remain on hunger strike

until authorities cancel plans to give the Queen the key to Nicosia

later this month. Christos Andreou, 45, who began his protest on Friday

in Nicosia's central square, said: ''I will stay here until the Queen

comes. I won't move even when she is here. I will only leave if they

decide not to give her the key.'' The Queen is visiting to head the

Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting on October 21 and Nicosia's

Council last week voted to present her with the golden key of the

divided city.

Yesterday relatives of nine Greek Cypriot guerrillas hanged by Britain

during the pre-independence struggle in the 1950s demanded an apology

from the Queen and stood in front of a mock gallows with nine nooses.

Andreou, who has published books on the Eoka fighters, says the Queen

should pay her respects at their graves. But President Glafcos Clerides

said any action expressing disapproval at her presence would harm

efforts towards a settlement on the divided island and ran contrary to

the traditional hospitality of Greek Cypriots.