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UN Envoy Warns of Consequences if Cyprus Reunification Talks Collapse
Date: 12/1/2011 8:48:14 AM Sender: VOA
UN Envoy Warns of Consequences if Cyprus Reunification Talks Collapse

The United Nations envoy for Cyprus says it is unlikely the ethnically divided island will ever be reunified if the latest peace talks aimed at creating a federation collapse.

Alexander Downer says if the three-year negotiations between internationally recognized Greek Cypriots and the breakaway Turkish Cypriots reach a complete deadlock, it would end the process of trying to reunify Cyprus as a federation.

Downer said the latest round of reconciliation talks has not broken down. But he told Cyprus＇ state-run television Wednesday night that there is no functional alternative to such a deal.

Some progress has been made in the ongoing talks, which began in 2008, but important differences remain on issues that have been holding up a final settlement, including power-sharing and property rights.

Cyprus has been divided since 1974 between the Turkish-controlled north and Greek Cypriot south. The island was split when Turkish troops invaded in response to a military coup aimed at uniting all of Cyprus with Greece.

Turkey is the only country in the world that recognizes the Turkish Cypriot north of the island.

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