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repulsewarrior
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UN-backed talks for a solution to the Cyprus problem resumed this morning after a two week holiday break.
http://m.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/talks-resume-between-leaders-after-holiday-break/20120104
In their last meeting on December 19, President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu discussed EU matters and, according to UNSG Special Representative Lisa Buttenheim, they: 'clarified their positions in a sincere manner''. |
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BRITISH parliamentarians have drafted a resolution on the Cyprus problem, calling on the UK government to exert pressure on Ankara to change its stance and show good will at the negotiating table.
The resolution was presented before the House of Commons and so far 17 MPs have signed it. It was prepared by MPs Sir Alan Meale and Jim Sheridan.
In the resolution, the House expresses its continuous concern about the illegal occupation of the northern part of the island of Cyprus by Turkey following its invasion in 1974.
The House notes that despite international efforts, Turkey refuses to withdraw its military forces or allow Greek Cypriot citizens to return to their homes and properties, whilst encouraging wrongful settlement in the area by immigrants whom they allow to exploit land and properties expropriated from their rightful owners without any regard for national Cypriot cultural heritage.
The parliamentarians call on the British government, as a guarantor power of Cyprus’ independence, to insist that Turkey adopts a more constructive attitude in negotiations aimed at establishing a viable, fair and lasting solution to the problem, and that as a gesture of goodwill it should agree to allow refugees from the ghost town of Famagusta and surrounding areas to return to their homes as outlined in United Nations Security Council Resolutions 550 (1984) and 789 (1992). (CNA)
http://m.cyprus-mail.com/resolution/british-mps-sign-cyprus-resolution/20120101 |
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repulsewarrior
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Accompanied by their wives, Greek Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias and breakaway Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu braved midwinter drizzle to greet villagers and exchange New Year's wishes in the village square before sitting down for a meal at a Greek Cypriot fish tavern, followed by coffee at a Turkish Cypriot cafe.
The event was effectively a photo-op designed to underscore the leaders' commitment to a peace deal, even though there has been scant progress in recent months.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=144749367 |
...apparently Erdogan invites Christofias to the Bosphorus, for fish. |
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repulsewarrior
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The leaders of the two communities in Cyprus held Monday morning a meeting in the framework of ongoing talks for the solution of the Cyprus issue, during which they prepared for their meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at Green Tree, Long Island between January 22 and 24, UN SG Special Advisor on the Cyprus issue Alexander Downer has said.
In a statement he made to the press after the meeting, Downer said that “the leaders have met this morning for an hour and a half and this has been a meeting where we are preparing for the Green Tree meeting, which as you know is taking place from the 22nd to the 24th”.
http://famagusta-gazette.com/downer-cyprus-leaders-preparing-for-green-tree-p14095-69.htm
Asked whether he has seen in the leaders the determination necessary to overcome existing obstacles he said that “they are working at it very hard”. As I have said, he added, “their representatives and their teams are going to meet again twice this week, there are quite clear plans for those meetings and we hope that those meetings will make a solid contribution to the process”. |
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repulsewarrior
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Reverse peace-keeping
The UN peacekeeping forces in Cyprus have asked the people squatting on the Ledras/Lokmaci buffer zone to evict the premises for security and hygiene reasons or someting like that. I went there today and spent about half hour. I felt pretty secure and the place was as clean as it could possibly be under the circumstances; no electricity, no running water, no toilet or kitchen. It was a bit muddy because the protesters embarked on a "Green up the Green Line" project that inevitably included earth being moved around... The people that have actually been living in there for the past couple of months are doing a great job. Just surviving there and hanging on is not easy and that's not all they are doing. They inform passers-by, they organise discussions, screenings or musical events. They have opened up the adjacent shops and are trying to turn them into a kitchen, a library and an exhibition centre. A few days ago the Turkish Cypriot authorities with the help of UNFICYP removed a generator the protesters were using. They are thinking to get pedal-powered generators.
It is the most valid and honest rapprochement effort to ever happen in our country. In my humble opinion it is the most important event that happened to the Cyprus Problem since 1974. These people are practicing what everyone else just likes to muse about and what politicians are saying we should dream about when we vote for them.
So I'm wondering: if the Occupy the Buffer Zone movement gets evicted from the buffer zone who will win? Whose success will it be?
One answer is UNFICYP. They will have successfully "cleaned up" the buffer zone and regained control of it, as is their mandate. But is it? Are the occupiers really a hazard to themselves or to others? No. A visit easily proves this and if you ask me UNFICYP should provide them with adequate means to survive there since they are Cypriot citizens trying to survive in their own country while police and armies are hindering their efforts. Are they likely to cause a military standoff? Erm...No. UNFICYP is doing its best to avoid responsibility and keep the politicians on both sides happy. Removing Occupy will not be "Peacekeeping" in any remotely imaginable way and definetely not a success for the UN.
Will it be a success for Mr Eroglu or Mr Christofias? I don't feel I need to argue this. Any sensible person would expect the two people allegedly trying to solve the CyProb to be the biggest supporters of the OBZ. Istead they ignore it. It's kind of understandable coming from the nationalist Eroglu but truly baffling coming from the Marxist-Leninist Christofias.
An eviction would be a success only for the system that created the Green Line and needs it to continue being there. Unfortunately this system includes all the political forces on both sides plus armies in Cyprus and outside it. And I am not afraid to say it: this system includes the great majority of the inhabitants of Cyprus. If that were not so the Green Line would have gone the way of the Berlin Wall already.
Our friends at Occupy the Buffer Zone are fighting a losing battle. The weird thing is that they will not be the losers. The rest of us will be.
http://mplongk.blogspot.com/2012/01/reverse-peace-keeping.html
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...so it is damned if you do, damned if you don't for the interlocutors.
they fear how much this movement will grow. it is not pie in the sky, it is easy to understand; there are "Greeks", there are "Turks", there are Cypriots. the public will start to recognise that their representation as citizens of a State called Cyprus for the last fifty years have been on their own track, that the debate is invalid, that their leadership have been struggling to maintain a balance of power which keeps us as adversaries within their control.
if the youth reject the thinking that they are from mutually exclusive sets, it may be possible for them to break the cycle of their exploitation as markets (and as taxpayers). they may realise the benefit of their cooperation and other notions which represent a way of life which ends their impotence, that they are a power which is loathed by the established order as it has been defined. don't forget that what was destroyed by the Problem was a society that was very socialised, able to sustain itself mostly as village dwellers without external influences, who identified with their land and not their culture. they may realise the value of the island, and its relationship to the geography which surrounds it, they may realise that the example that they represent may be emulated; something clearly, the interlocutors wish to stop.
do not despair, it is good news. we now know that these puny nobodies cannot be ignored, and that their idea is a dangerous thing to those who wish things stay the same. i hope and pray that the bonds between them will remain, and it is my opinion the forces against them have started something which will not stop. better for the powers that exist if they had coddled the protesters, and corrupted them, but soon it will be too late for that.
...i see flags of Cyprus driving around the whole island this summer, and not hundreds but thousands who will join them. |
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25 January 2012 –
The latest round of United Nations-facilitated talks between the leaders of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities aimed at the reunification of Cyprus have ended in New York after “robust and intensive” discussions, Secretary-Ban Ki-moon said today, calling for a decisive move to reach a final agreement.
Mr. Ban, who attended the talks between Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias and his Turkish Cypriot counterpart, Dervis Eroglu, on Monday and Tuesday, said “limited progress” was achieved during the meeting.
He also reminded both parties that the process is Cypriot-owned and Cypriot-led.
“The UN is not here to impose solutions upon the sides,” Mr. Ban told reporters at UN Headquarters, adding that the two sides had come to the meeting to make an effort to resolve the main challenges in the process – the issues of the election of the executive, property and citizenship.
“In terms of next steps, I have proposed that the sides complete the exchange of data on property within the next two weeks to which they agreed,” said Mr. Ban, whose Special Adviser on Cyprus, Alexander Downer, will brief the Security Council later today on the talks.
“I will be providing a report to the Security Council on the status of the negotiations at the end of February [and] at the end of March I will seek a review of the process from my Special Adviser.
“If his report is positive, consistent with relevant Security Council resolutions and following consultations with the two sides, I intend to call a multilateral conference in late April or early May,” said the Secretary-General.
He stressed that, at this stage of the talks, even maintaining the momentum and continuing negotiations in an intensive manner is not sufficient. “I have urged the leaders to make decisive steps to move to a final agreement,” he added.
“The United Nations remains convinced that it is in the interest of all Cypriots to reach a durable settlement,” he said.
In 2008, both sides agreed to work towards “a bicommunal, bizonal federation with political equality, as defined by relevant Security Council resolutions.” The partnership will comprise a Federal Government with a single international personality, along with a Turkish Cypriot Constituent State and a Greek Cypriot Constituent State, which will be of equal status.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41035&Cr=Cyprus&Cr1= |
...little news on the meeting, other news sources are just as vague. |
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Leaders meet for the first time after Greentree
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2012/02/14/visualizza_new.html_98601785.html
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| (ANSAmed) - NICOSIA, FEBRUARY 14 - UN-led peace talks for a political settlement in Cyprus continue on Tuesday between the leaders of the island's two communities, as CNA reports. President of the Republic Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu will meet this morning, their first meeting after their meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at Greentree in New York. |
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...nothing about the meeting's results in todays papers. |
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