Nicosia: ‘No’ to five-party talks
The Cypriot government yesterday rejected a proposal by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a “five-way meeting” of talks on uniting the divided island of Cyprus, but reiterated that it is ready to resume negotiations under United Nations’ auspices.
Erdogan had called for Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos, Mehmet Ali Talat, the head of the government of the Turkish-occupied part of the island, Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and, “if necessary,” a representative of the government of the United Kingdom to join him in talks. Greece, Turkey and the UK are the Cypriot state’s guarantor powers.
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