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12 May 2011, Thursday / REUTERS, NICOSIA

The United Nations wants the two sides in ethnically split Cyprus to adopt a game plan to resolve outstanding issues in peace talks this year and is hoping for a deal by mid 2012, its main envoy to the island said on Thursday.


With little over a year to go before Greek Cyprus assumes the rotating European Union presidency, UN diplomats overseeing reunification negotiations say a deal -- in a conflict which has defied decades of mediation -- would be preferable before then.

"We don't have a deadline as such, but obviously everybody is working to try to get the agreement done before Greek Cyprus takes over the presidency of the EU," said Alexander Downer, special adviser of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Cyprus.

That position had been adopted by a number of EU leaders and Dimitris Christofias, the Greek Cypriot leader who represented the Greek Cypriot side in talks, he said.

Ban was scheduled to meet with Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders in late June or early July, Downer said. The UN has been overseeing slow-moving talks between the two sides since September 2008.

Christofias told Greek Cypriot media on Thursday that the trilateral meeting will be on July 3 in Geneva.

"We will want this meeting to be a meeting that really helps to drive the process forward towards the end of the year, for the rest of the year," Downer told Reuters in an interview.

"We want it to be a bit more than a routine stock taking."

Cyprus has been split since a 1974 Turkish intervention after a brief Greek-inspired coup. The conflict is one obstacle to Turkey's admission to the EU as Greek Cypriots who represent the whole island say Ankara cannot join the bloc until Cyprus's division is resolved.

Turkish Cyprus, where Turkish Cypriots live with about 30,000 Turkish troops, is a breakaway state recognised only by Ankara. It is hobbled economically by its inability to trade with the outside world.

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Mediators are trying to reunify the island as a two-zone federation of two communities linked by a strong central government. Among the most contentious issues are property claims from thousands of internally displaced people, security arrangements and redrawing boundaries between the sides.

Any agreement the sides reach must go to referendum.

Speaking at a UN compound which forms part of a buffer zone splitting Cyprus's Greeks and Turks, Downer said he had been discussing ideas for what he described as an "action plan" with the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders before meeting Ban.

"I think they are quite responsive to those ideas... our ideal would be for the two leaders to go to the meeting with an agreed approach," Downer said. "I'm hoping for an action plan to be agreed."

"They obviously haven't agreed on everything (in negotiations) so the question is how we are going to encourage them to agree on all of the outstanding issues from now on."

Greek Cyprus assumes the EU presidency in June 2012 and holds its own domestic presidential elections in February 2013. It is unclear whether Christofias will seek re-election.

"If they haven't pretty much done it by the time you get to the lead-up to Greek Cypriot presidency then it's hard to believe during Greek Cypriot presidency or the presidential elections you are going to be making great strides forward in these negotiations," Downer said.

"It stands to reason that it would be for the best to try to get everything signed and sealed - not delivered - but signed and sealed before then."

http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/news ... sId=243750

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Why are you quoting a Turkish Newspaper? They are lying and misquoting. I am sure Downer didn't say "We don't have a deadline as such, but obviously everybody is working to try to get the agreement done before Greek Cyprus takes over the presidency of the EU". This is just what the Turkish newspaper says misquoting Downer. What will assume the presidency of EU will be the Republic of Cyprus. http://www.cy2012eu.gov.cy/

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http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/downe ... 2/20110513

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erolz he said no turkish newspapers cyprus mail should be excluded.

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Re kurupetos, you don't think it is a good idea to know what the buggers are saying?

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CBBB is a driveller.

Re kurupetos, you don't think it is a good idea to know what the buggers are saying?

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