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Article: Annan urges Security Council to help end isolation of Turkish Cypriots
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 3, 2004
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Annan urges Security Council to help end isolation of Turkish
Cypriots
UNITED NATIONS, June 3 (Xinhua) -- United Nations Secretary-
General Kofi Annan urged Thursday the Security Council to help end
the isolation of Turkish Cypriots as a reward for their support for
reunification.
Annan made the appeal in a report on his efforts to help end the
three-decade division of Cyprus. His mediation ended after Greek
Cypriots rejected a reunification plan, proposed by him, in the April
24 referendum. But the plan was favored by a majority of Turkish
Cypriots.
"The Turkish Cypriot vote has undone any rationale for pressuring
and isolating them," he said. "The members of the council should ...