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[gus]

I want to share with you this journalist's opinion about the Cyprus problem and the role played by Mr.Annan. Not to be missed!

I will apreciate your comments. Thanks!

[gus]

Sorry, I forgot about the link:

http://www.webcommentary.com/asp/ShowAr ... ate=051220

Thank you!

[Simon]

Gus, it is just as I have been saying all along. Cyprus has not only been betrayed by the United Nations, but also, as the article says, by the USA. Oh, and not forgetting the role Britain had to play, by merely causing the divide in the first place.

The USA and United Nations are not interested in human rights or anything like that. They're just trying to get the best deal for themselves. That's all.

[pantheman]

Gus,

10/10 mate, its what i have been saying all long. America wants cyprus the way it is, otherwise it would have been settled by now.

pantheman

[gus]

Simon, Pantheman:

The sad history about Annan's Plan is that the rest of the world blame Papadopoulos and the Greek Cypriots for rejecting that specific too biased plan... This is the way USA "use" the international public opinion, now the GC are the bad guys and TC the ones that offer their hands to the south....

Very sad history. The only thing we can't do is to get used to see Cyprus like it is today, since 1974....

[Viewpoint]

Very biased and one sided report, that surname sounds Greek, could there be a connection?. The bitter fact is that the opportunity was not used and GCs are sour about what not happening and wont be happening in the fore seeable future, well done guys you played the game into stalemate......and now you are trying to find justification from a few reporters who obviously know where their "bread is buttered" ho sorry priorities "lie".

Isnt it about time GCs got their fingers out of their ears and open their eyes calling upon their leaders to return to the negotiating table or is the EU leverage game preferable? which dont forget is dangling on a shoe string meaning Turkeys EU accession, doyou really want to wait another 10/15 years after ehich it may not even happen.

[zan]

Viewpoint

I have taken out all the unnecessary Greek propaganda from that piece of writing that was supposed to be about Kofi Annans failings, in order to show what reporting should be. If you can be bothered, perhaps you could rewrite it with the Turkish propaganda put in place and mail it to the author on his site.

U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, who staked his reputation as a diplomat on bringing an end of the Cypriot conflict but failed — again. Annan has solidified his place as the worst leader in the U.N.'s 60-year history
Millions of people have died of starvation and disease or have been murdered by militias during Kofi Annan's tenure as head of the United Nations, the most corrupt organization on the face of the Earth. I'm waiting for Annan to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his contributions to humanity — death, pestilence, war and destruction. Annan's good friend, Jimmy Carter, the worst president in U.S. history, will probably present the award.
One of the major failings of the Annan Plan was the refusal to compensate Greek-Cypriots for the loss of their homes, farms and businesses.
Claire Palley details Kofi Annan's many failures on the Cyprus issue in a new book, "An International Relations Debacle: The U.N. Secretary-General's Mission of Good Offices in Cyprus 1999-2004." Don't look for the book on the best seller list. It's not exactly a Stephen King page-turner, although at 604 pages, it might rival one of those Harry Potter books in weight.
Christopher Hitchens, a columnist for Vanity Fair magazine and one of the best investigative journalists around today, gave Palley's book some play in a recent edition of the Weekly Standard.
Hitchens — author of "Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger" — is not a Kofi Annan fan. Writing in the Weekly Standard, Hitchens concludes, "The case of Cyprus involves both the failure of the United Nations as an organization and the individual shortcomings of the present secretary general."
Both books go into detail about how the United Nations has bungled the Cyprus issue since the island gained its independence from Great Britain in 1960.
Hitchens’ book on Cyprus is fascinating read for anyone who has an interest in geopolitical machinations. Henry Kissinger, who was brought to the White House by Richard Nixon, ran American foreign policy after Nixon resigned and the hapless Gerald Ford became president.
The Berlin Wall fell, but the Green Line still divides Nicosia, the Cypriot capital. Kofi Annan's legacy as head of the U.N. is one of failure as long as Cyprus remains a divided nation

[cypezokyli]

he is a gc all the way. from the name and from the way he writes
if a journalists starts the story at 1974 then he is a gc all the way.
he sais nothing new, other than rechewing the same things.

cyprus remaines divided not because the US wants it to be.
cyprus remaines devided because we dont want /& we are unable to find a solution.
and if we found anan plan not good enough, then we should be sitting our asses on the negotiating table since the OXI day.

as for the personal attack on anan... on what grounds does he judges success , and on what grounds he is worse than all the rest of the GS ? just tell me which proposal of any general secretary we didnt reject.

plus the annan plan being a personal diplomatic failure shows how much he knows about the subject. as if it is annan who prepaired the plan - despite the fact that it carries his name. that plan carries a number of things we have negotiated and its time to start digesting that.

[Piratis]

cyprus remaines divided not because the US wants it to be.
cyprus remaines devided because we dont want /& we are unable to find a solution.

Aren't there UN resolutions calling for all foreign troops to withdraw from Cyprus and the respect of the sovereignty of RoC?
Aren't the UN supposed to help enforce their own resolutions? Didn't they do that in the cases of Iraq (and every other case it suited the Americans)?

Since when our human rights are negotiable? Yes, we can negotiate some things and we do, but not to the degree to accept violations of our human and democratic rights!

Shouldn't the UN plan be based on the UN principles, such as this: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html ?

The UN role is not just to be mediators. They are supposed to hold to their own principles. Unfortunately they remember their principles only when it suits their main patrons (US, UK etc)

The UN proposing something like the Annan plan was indeed one more proof that the UN have failed to fulfill the reason they were created.

If a country of half a million people is left undefended to be illegally occupied by a country of 60 million and the only thing that the UN can propose is legalization of the results of the invasion, something which is against their own resolutions and principles, then there is no reason for the UN to exist.

If all we needed was a mediator that would simply be in the middle of the two sides, without caring about international law, human rights etc, this mediator could be the EU, or some country.
UN's role is not to be a mere mediator who will allow the powerful to impose his unfair demands on the weak.

Cyprus remains divided because we don't have the power to liberate it, and the UN who were supposed to protect the weak and help enforce their own resolutions and principles did nothing in this direction.

[zan]

Aren't there UN resolutions calling for all foreign troops to withdraw from Cyprus and the respect of the sovereignty of RoC?
Aren't the UN supposed to help enforce their own resolutions? Didn't they do that in the cases of Iraq (and every other case it suited the Americans)?

So doesn't that tell you that the TCs might have a case and that the UN cannot justify moving on this issue? Or is it that the UN is going against the GCs. If it’s the latter then the UN can’t be trusted and their first decision is wrong as well. Nothing makes sense if you keep up with your present attitude. You keep saying you have extreme views because you want to find a middle ground and you keep telling lies to achieve your aim.

More later, I have to go to work know.