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Cyprus leaders continue UN-backed talks on property issue
The leaders of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities continued their United Nations-facilitated discussions on the property issue, part of efforts to reunify the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, the UN News Service said on August 4 2010.
The meetings began in 2008 after the then-leaders of the two communities committed themselves to working towards a bi-communal, bi-zonal federation with political equality, as defined by relevant UN Security Council resolutions.
The property aspect of the talks tries to resolve numerous complex claims between the two sides on property seized decades ago.
Turkish Cypriot leader Derviş Eroğlu and Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias are slated to meet again next week for talks, even though August is a holiday month in the country, the UN News Service said.
"The fact that these meetings are taking place between the leaders and at the Representatives’ level so many times in August is a very positive sign," Lisa Buttenheim, the Special Representative of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, told reporters after the August 4 meeting.
Buttenheim, who most recently served as Director of the Middle East and West Asia Division in the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) in the UN Secretariat in New York, was appointed to her new position last month, succeeding Tayé-Brook Zerihoun of Ethiopia.
She will now also serve as the head of the UN peacekeeping mission known asUNFICYP, which has been stationed in Cyprus since 1964 after an outbreak of inter-communal violence.
The meetings began in 2008 after the then-leaders of the two communities committed themselves to working towards a bi-communal, bi-zonal federation with political equality, as defined by relevant UN Security Council resolutions.
The property aspect of the talks tries to resolve numerous complex claims between the two sides on property seized decades ago.
Turkish Cypriot leader Derviş Eroğlu and Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias are slated to meet again next week for talks, even though August is a holiday month in the country, the UN News Service said.
"The fact that these meetings are taking place between the leaders and at the Representatives’ level so many times in August is a very positive sign," Lisa Buttenheim, the Special Representative of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, told reporters after the August 4 meeting.
Buttenheim, who most recently served as Director of the Middle East and West Asia Division in the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) in the UN Secretariat in New York, was appointed to her new position last month, succeeding Tayé-Brook Zerihoun of Ethiopia.
She will now also serve as the head of the UN peacekeeping mission known asUNFICYP, which has been stationed in Cyprus since 1964 after an outbreak of inter-communal violence.
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The meeting is taking place in the framework of the ongoing negotiation process to achieve a comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus problem, conducted by the two communities under the auspices of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon's office said.
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Economic and social ties could spur progress on Cyprus talks, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says.
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Back in the late 1970 I made a prediction which still alas holds
"the Cyprus and the Palestine issues go in tandem and one cannot be resolved with the other pending"
in 2010 my prediction still holds
in spite of the myriads of UN resolutions issued on both cases,
What we do not understand is about the effectiveness of UN , is that while the "reunification talks for Cyprus " are taking place,Turkey still occupies 37% of Cyprus. Cyprus is an independent state old UN member and EU member since 2004 presently is under Turkey's occupation and pressure to accept not Functional solution but a two state confederation solution dictated by Turkey's military chiefs via its "elected "Turkish Cypriot puppet hard liner Dervis Eroglou".If the UN was an effective organization it shouldn't accept Dervis Eroglu election ,simply because only 80,000 Turkish Cypriots remain on [...]
Read the full comment the Island and two hundred thousand Anatolian settlers from Turkey voted illegally Eroglou in as their Turkey's leader.
One big unanswered question and concern is ,why the countless UN resolutions for Cyprus were never enforced , and why Turkey remains unpunished for violating the UN charter of rights,200,000 Greek Cypriots ethnic cleansing done by Turkey ,and for the destruction of the religious and Cultural Heritage of the Greek Cypriots destroyed by Turkey . Turkey is permitted to violate all UN security council and EU resolutions for Cyprus,and Turkey wands us to believe that wants a Just Functional and viable Cyprus settlement while building on stolen Greek Cypriot land hotels and houses which Turkey sells to outsiders, and prohibits any Greek Cypriot to buy live in any of these properties. Turkey's Barbarism and racial discrimination against the Greek Cypriots which is the same and longer lasting (thirty six years so far ) than world war two holocaust. The people Greek Cypriots were uprooted from their ancestral homes and land in Famagusta sea resort area by the Turkey's Attila army of occupation since the summer of 1974 Turkey's barbaric invasion ad occupation of Cyprus . Since 1974, Turkey keeps the Town of Famagusta within barbed wires and does not allow its legitimate Greek Cypriot EU Citizens to return to their homes and land ,Turkey continues to punish for thirty six years the Greek Cypriots and keeps them out of their homeland which is the same, as the crimes committed by Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany.
sincerely . E . Nondas
Turkey's Crimes Against Greek Cypriots Must stop
What we do not understand is about the effectiveness of UN , is that while the so called "reunification talks for Cyprus " are taking place,Turkey still occupies 37% of Cyprus. Cyprus is an independent state old UN member and EU member since 2004 presently is under Turkey's occupation and pressure to accept not Functional solution but a two state confederation solution dictated by Turkey's military chiefs via its "elected "Turkish Cypriot puppet hard liner Dervis Eroglou". If the UN was a meaning full and effective organization it shouldn't [...]
Read the full comment accept Dervis Eroglu election ,simply because only 80,000 Turkish Cypriots remain on the Island and two hundred thousand Anatolian Alliens from Turkey voted illegally Eroglou in as their Turkey's leader.
As far as we know there were no major problems solved by the so called "peace talks" which are almost two years old so far.One big unanswered question and concern is ,why the countless UN resolutions for Cyprus were never enforced , and why Turkey remains unpunished for violating the UN charter of rights,200,000 Greek Cypriots ethnic cleansing done by Turkey ,and for the destruction of the religious and Cultural Heritage of the Greek Cypriots destroyed by Turkey . Turkey is permitted to violate all UN security council and EU resolutions for Cyprus,and Turkey wands us to believe that wants a Just Functional and viable Cyprus settlement while building on stolen Greek Cypriot land hotels and houses which Turkey sells to outsiders, and prohibits any Greek Cypriot to buy live in any of these properties. Turkey's Barbarism and racial discrimination against the Greek Cypriots which is the same and longer lasting (thirty six years so far ) than world war two holocaust. The people Greek Cypriots were uprooted from their ancestral homes and land in Famagusta sea resort area by the Turkey's Attila army of occupation since the summer of 1974 Turkey's barbaric invasion ad occupation of Cyprus . Since 1974, Turkey keeps the Town of Famagusta within barbed wires and does not allow its legitimate Greek Cypriot EU Citizens to return to their homes and land ,Turkey continues to punish for thirty six years the Greek Cypriots and keeps them out of their homeland which is the same, as the crimes committed by Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany.
sincerely . E . Nondas