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Article: Cypriot leaders hold reunification talks hours after bomb explodes near home of Turkish Cypriot PM
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- Al Bawaba
- Article date:
- February 19, 2004
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Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders met with a UN mediator Thursday,
launching talks to reunify the divided island hours after a small
bomb exploded in front of the home of the Turkish Cypriot prime
minister.UN special envoy Alvaro de Soto greeted chief Turkish
Cypriot negotiator Rauf Denktash and his Greek Cypriot counterpart,
President Tassos Papadopoulos, as they arrived at the UN conference
center in the abandoned Nicosia airport in the buffer zone that
divides Cyprus. Hours earlier, a bomb broke the front door and
windows of the ...