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[bill cobbett]

Philenews reporting that Two Types of Halloumi Two Sovereignties Eroglu and "trnc" have rejected the latest proposal for a joint statement without coming up with own version.

"... NICOSIA - The Turkish Cypriot side has rejected the latest proposal by the government on the wording of a joint declaration to pave the way for UN-brokered Cyprus peace talks to resume.

And it has submitted no new one which means that the final whistle appears to have been blown, insiders said yesterday..."

Ball's in the UN court.

http://incyprus.philenews.com/en-gb/Blo ... al-whistle

[Lordo]

yep they are about to pack up and go home i hope. fat load of good they have done in cyprus in the last 50 years. every time a gc fired a shot they scarpered under their beds till the firing stopped.

[repulsewarrior]

...a few commas, it was said, don't panic.

in any case what is needed is the recognition that in this case, Cyprus, defining a State requires the consideration of People as Persons, and in that regard it is beneficial to consider the benefits of a Society that is Bicommunal. what is needed is a Republic of Cyprus, a Unitary State, where within there is a level of Government that consolidates this idea that beyond Individual Expression, there is the desire to sustain distinct ideas that are National.

...it is not hard. what is needed is a Greek Constituency, since there is a Republic (albeit in need of Constitutional reform), and a Turkish Constituency who have expressed this one desire, that "Greeks" share, that in some way, "Greeks" and "Turks" are equal.

now, may be the time for new thinking...

[repulsewarrior]

yep they are about to pack up and go home i hope. fat load of good they have done in cyprus in the last 50 years. every time a gc fired a shot they scarpered under their beds till the firing stopped.

...pardon me if i don't take the same view, and there are many UN soldiers, because one would be more than enough, who died in service, here; i cannot recall a one, killed in action from the hand of a "Greek"/Greek, you?

...and since we are on topic, help me out here someone, how many UN troops were injured, how many died, not in horrible road accidents, but in their role as Peacekeepers in Cyprus?

[Demonax]

Pres. Anastasiades has revealed what Turkey and Eroglu have objected to in the joint statement:

[Anastasiades] said that it was with deep regret that he was informed on 27 December 2013 that the Turkish Cypriot side has rejected the Greek Cypriot side’s most recent draft of the joint declaration submitted on 18 December 2013, the provisions of which benefit jointly Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots and in no case favour the one community vis-à-vis the other.

He said that “our only two added suggestions were: ‘Union in whole or in part with any other country or any form of partition or secession is excluded’ and ‘Any dispute as regards federal laws’ or constituent states’ laws will be adjudicated finally by the Federal Supreme Court’.”, adding that these two proposals had been incorporated in all previous proposals or plans for the Cyprus problem.

http://famagusta-gazette.com/president- ... 052-69.htm