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Article: Greek and Turkish Cypriot women demonstrate for peace as reunification talks continue
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- March 10, 2004
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AP Worldstream
03-10-2004
Dateline: NICOSIA, Cyprus
About 200 Greek and Turkish Cypriot women launched white doves of peace into the air Wednesday and urged their leaders, locked in negotiations, to get a move on and sign a U.N. plan for reuniting the island.
The women came together in the U.N. buffer zone that has divided Cyprus since the Turkish invasion of 1974 as the leaders of the two sides held their 13th meeting. News reports say the negotiations are failing to make the necessary progress.
"We, the mothers of Cyprus express our desire to live together in peace in our common country," the women said in a statement. They carried banners reading "Peace-Reunification-Equality."
They ...