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Article: Greek, Turkish Cypriot leaders meet over missing people issue
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- July 3, 2006
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Greek, Turkish Cypriot leaders meet over missing people issue
NICOSIA, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos
and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat met here on Monday over
the missing people issue.
The meeting, which began at around 10:00 a.m. (0800 GMT) and
lasted for one and a half hours, took place as Swiss diplomat
Christophe Girod assumed duty as the third member of the Committee of
Missing Persons (CMP).
It is the first meeting between the two leaders since April 2004
when a UN-sponsored reunification plan was put to public votes in
both sides on the island. The Turkish north accepted the plan while
Greek Cypriots rejected it, saying it did not meet their ...