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Azerbaijan
Senator to visit Ankara, Cyprus on special tour
17.02.09 16:47
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Turkey, Ankara, Feb. 17/ Trend News A. Aleskerov/
U.S. Senator Richard Durbin will visit the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Greece and Turkey as part of a special tour.
During the trip, he will become familiar with the positions of both sides regarding the conflict.
Durbin will visit Ankara to discuss the Cyprus issue on Feb. 18. He will be met by Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Durbin recently met with President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Mehmet Ali Talat, the Milliyet daily newspaper reported.
He will visit Greece on Feb. 17.
http://news-en.trend.az/azerbaijan/1426334.html
US senator offers help in Cyprus peace talks
The Associated PressPublished: February 17, 2009
NICOSIA, Cyprus: A U.S. senator made an unofficial offer Tuesday to help the leaders of Cyprus' rival communities in peace talks to reunify the divided island.
Sen. Richard Durbin said he has offered assistance to President Dimitris Christofias, a Greek Cypriot, and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat. He did not elaborate.
"We don't have a specific offer. I mean, what we said was we're available to help. And again, it is for both sides to decide what that help might be," the Illinois Democrat told The Associated Press after talks with Christofias.
Durbin, who will travel on to Greece and Turkey this week, said his three-day Cyprus visit is not as an official representative of President Barack Obama.
But he added he will convey to both the U.S. president and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton the message that the peace talks are "an opportunity in history that we shouldn't miss."
"We should do everything we can if we're asked or called on to make this work," he said.
Cyprus was split into a breakaway Turkish Cypriot north and an internationally-recognized Greek Cypriot south in 1974 when Turkey invaded in response to a coup by supporters of union with Greece.
Cyprus joined the European Union in 2004, but only Greek Cypriots enjoy the bloc's benefits.
Numerous U.N.-sponsored initiatives to reunify the island have failed over the last 35 years, including the most comprehensive bid in 2004 when Greek Cypriots rejected — and Turkish Cypriots approved — a U.N.-backed plan.
Christofias and Talat ended a four-year stalemate last year when they agreed to restart peace talks.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/ ... -Talks.php