Bananiot wrote: I said in the begining that our options are very limited. An agreed solution can only be based on bizonal, bicommunal federation and we can blame our past for this for as much as we like, but things cannot change. In real life, mistakes are paid for. Especially when you are a midget who pretended to be goliath and tried to play ball with the big boys. Annan plan was not ideal but it provided the basis for a new start which if we took we could have made things work with good faith, patience and prudence. We rejected it and in effect we voted for the Turkish army to stay for ever in Cyprus and for our country to be partitioned for good. Unless you believe that Papadopoulos will solve a predominantly political issue with his stupid legalistic jargon.
The Annan plan was not a bi-zonal and a bi-communal Federation, but only in name! The Annan plan was a confederation between two (via an ill-conceived and ill-defined "virgin-birth" approach,) separate and pre-existing Nation /States, fully in line with the Turkish philosophy and aims!