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[bill cobbett]

Seems that GB will continue in Illegal Occupation of large tracts of CY, post any settlement.

From the GB BBC site.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/mobile/uk/8353712.stm



Britain is "formally renewing" an offer to hand over half of its sovereign territory in Cyprus to facilitate a peace deal, the United Nations says.
Britain controls 3% of territory on Cyprus, which was a UK colony until 1960 and has since seen conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
The renewal of the offer came as the Cypriot president Demetris Christofias arrived on a visit to London.
Downing Street said it would issue a statement after he met Gordon Brown.
"The offer would be conditional on a comprehensive agreement being agreed by the leaders of the two communities and then accepted by a majority of their populations and formally ratified by both sides," the UN said in a statement.

[YFred]

I am confused. How is an EU country allowed to occupy territory of another. There must be laws against it or somfink.

[bill cobbett]

I am confused. How is an EU country allowed to occupy territory of another. There must be laws against it or somfink.

Good point mate. .... if I may say so.

[Get Real!]

I am confused. How is an EU country allowed to occupy territory of another. There must be laws against it or somfink.

Good point mate. .... if I may say so.

No, no, no..... don't let the fool confuse you and start an endless exchange of junk posts please!

The SBA's are an "agreed" exchange for "independence" made pre-EU and the daft oaf should know that.

Go to bed Y-Fronts, because your input in the CyProb is as interesting and as useful as the chewing gum you stepped on last year.

[YFred]

I am confused. How is an EU country allowed to occupy territory of another. There must be laws against it or somfink.

Good point mate. .... if I may say so.

No, no, no..... don't let the fool confuse you and start an endless exchange of junk posts please!

The SBA's are an "agreed" exchange for "independence" made pre-EU and the daft oaf should know that.

Go to bed Y-Fronts, because your input in the CyProb is as interesting and as useful as the chewing gum you stepped on last year.

If you can chew up and spit out the 1959 agreement with the TCs as being unfair, how do you accept the SBA's so readily. Lan casus kopek seni.


Honestly you cant trust the Turks, they should have attacked in 63, it would have been alright then.

[AWE]

"The offer would be conditional on a comprehensive agreement being agreed by the leaders of the two communities and then accepted by a majority of their populations and formally ratified by both sides," the UN said in a statement.

You think they know there wont be an agreement?

If so what happens next?

[YFred]

"The offer would be conditional on a comprehensive agreement being agreed by the leaders of the two communities and then accepted by a majority of their populations and formally ratified by both sides," the UN said in a statement.

You think they know there wont be an agreement?

Why should GCs accept this one? They turned down every single gift horse in the mouth they have been given to this point, why should they change now. They will first refuse it and then start a campaign to ask for it again. Old habits die hard.

[Get Real!]

If you can chew up and spit out the 1959 agreement with the TCs as being unfair, how do you accept the SBA's so readily. Lan casus kopek seni

What makes you think I like and accept it? The fact remains that Makarios was fooled pretty bad despite international decolonization law!

[Milo]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5A93XE20091110


'NICOSIA (Reuters) - Britain has offered to hand over almost half of its sovereign territory in Cyprus to facilitate a peace deal between the island's estranged Greek and Turkish Cypriots, the United Nations said on Tuesday.'



I completely disagree with any territory in Cyprus belonging to the UK so don,t understand how they can hand back anything, BUT it sounds like something is going on.

[halil]

Turkish Cypriot Side is to open a quadruple Cyprus summit, involving the two sides in Cyprus as well as Turkey and Greece.

At his weekly press briefing today, the Presidential Spokesperson Hasan Ercakica also left the door open for a quintet meeting on the Cyprus issue, involving Britain too.

The statements on a possible quintet meeting came amid today’s private meeting held between President Mehmet Ali Talat and the British High Commissioner in Cyprus Peter Millet at the Presidential Palace.
Yet, Mr Ercakica noted that there has been no certainty reached over the organization of such a summit.

The TRNC Presidential Spokesperson Ercakica said that Britain, one of the guarantor powers in Cyprus, seems to own a more active role in the Cyprus solution process recently.

http://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus27291.html