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![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2823 W: 611 N: 5603]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (24319) | will cyprus manage to unite this time?...
for a better future for everyone living on the island?...
"...UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday (March 24th) congratulated Demetris Christofias and Mehmet Ali Talat on the agreement they reached last week to resume re-unification talks within three months. The deal was reached Friday during the two leaders' first face-to-face talks since Christofias won the February 24th presidential runoff.
During the talks, Christofias and Talat decided that a number of working groups and technical committees would be established "in the most expeditious way possible" to work out the details of a re-unification agreement. The two leaders are due to meet again after three months to review the progress achieved by those panels, and "using their results, to start full-fledged negotiations" under Ban's auspices.
The two sides are also focusing on another element of Friday's agreement between Christofias and Talat, concerning the re-opening of a key crossing point on Ledra Street, the main commercial road in Nicosia. It is a major symbol of the island's 34-year long division.
The Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot mayors of Europe's last divided capital, Eleni Mavrou and Cemal Metin Bulutoglulari, met on Monday to discuss preparations for opening the crossing, which has been closed since 1963. Both said they were ready to take the necessary steps once they get the green light from the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, which has to first clear the area of any unexploded mines.
"We are waiting for the UN to give us the go ahead and we will decide the same day," Bulutoglulari said. "We need five days together to finish the area for the construction and the safety work and, hopefully, once we get the go ahead, we will start together helping each other and we will finish it at the beginning of the month (of April). But we do not know the date," he added..."
...fingers crossed!...
...a turkish cypriot girl playing with friends on the back streets of kyrenia... |
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