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UN envoy cautiously optimistic on Cyprus peace talks

NICOSIA, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary General's special advisor on Cyprus expressed on Friday his optimism about the newly launched substantive negotiations aimed at reunifying the east Mediterranean island.

Alexander Downer, the former Australian Foreign Minister, however, stressed that there was no doubt that this would be a very difficult process after all.

"There has not been any successful conclusion to the Cyprus problem for many years, therefore it is not going to be a simple and easy process," Downer told a press conference.

He described the atmosphere of the first substantive talks on Thursday between the Greek and ...

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