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Article: Cyprus President Rejects Turkish Cypriot
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- July 23, 1996
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Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides said here today that the Greek
Cypriot side will not participate in military talks between the
commanders of the Cypriot National Guard and the Turkish forces in
Cyprus if the so-called commander of the Turkish Cypriot forces takes
part in the talks.
The president made the remarks one day after U.S. permanent
representative to the U.N. Madeleine Albright told a press conference
in New York that Turkish Cypriot participation in the military talks
is a "subject under discussion" following a request to that effect by
the Turkish Cypriot side.
President Clerides told reporters that he made his position clear
to U.S. presidential emissary Richard Beattie during a ...