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UK's Straw says international community should discuss permanent partition of divided Cyprus

By The Associated Press (CP)

LONDON — Britain's former foreign secretary says a formal partition of Cyprus should be considered if current peace talks fail to agree a reunification plan.

Jack Straw wrote Monday in an op-ed article for the Times of London that the international community must break "a taboo" and consider the creation of two permanent states on the divided island.

Straw was Britain's foreign minister between 2001 and 2006, and a senior Cabinet member until May.

Cyprus was split into an internationally recognized Greek Cypriot south and a breakaway Turkish Cypriot north in 1974, when Turkey invaded after a coup by supporters of union with Greece.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is hosting a meeting Nov. 18 in New York aimed at advancing slow-moving peace talks.

[CyprusNewsReport]

He's entitled to his opinion, even if it is ill-founded. But partition would not solve anything. In fact, it could be even more difficult and dangerous than the current situation.

The best answer is reunification and friendship between all communities on the island. Partition in this situation would mean even more fighting over trade, territory, rights, that's what I think. It would settle nothing.

[Hermes]

Here we go again. Straw was the UK Foreign secretary during the British drafting of the Annan Plan. Seems like he's never got over its rejection.

Nothing's changed. Only he's finally laid down the thinking behind the Annan Plan. Jack Straw is prepared to partition Cyprus in order to facilitate Turkey's EU entry. In other words, you can fuck human rights and international law in exchange for Britain's strategic goal of undermining the French/German axis in Europe.

If you can't get an agreed partition via the Annan Plan then let's try a forced partition. See if we can divide Cyprus that way. That'll get those pesky Greek Cypriots off Turkey's back. No word on whether the people of Cyprus have a say on their country's future. Words fail me.

What an incredible fuck-wit and typical of the moronic breed of unprincipled and degenerate Labour politicians in Britain that got their asses kicked at the last election. Thankfully, they are unlikely to see power again for many years.

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UK's Straw says international community should discuss permanent partition of divided Cyprus

By The Associated Press (CP)

LONDON — Britain's former foreign secretary says a formal partition of Cyprus should be considered if current peace talks fail to agree a reunification plan.

Jack Straw wrote Monday in an op-ed article for the Times of London that the international community must break "a taboo" and consider the creation of two permanent states on the divided island.

Straw was Britain's foreign minister between 2001 and 2006, and a senior Cabinet member until May.

Cyprus was split into an internationally recognized Greek Cypriot south and a breakaway Turkish Cypriot north in 1974, when Turkey invaded after a coup by supporters of union with Greece.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is hosting a meeting Nov. 18 in New York aimed at advancing slow-moving peace talks.

jack straw's already condemned to spend the rest of eternity in hell (alongside blair) for his role in taking britain to war with iraq - so this statement won't make a blind bit of difference.