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Article: UN envoy says no model imposed on Cyprus
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- June 3, 2009
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UN envoy says no model imposed on Cyprus
NICOSIA, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations can help Greek and
Turkish Cypriots during the peace talks but will not impose any
reunification model on Cyprus, UN envoy Alexander Downer said here
on Wednesday.
"The role of the United Nations is to do what it can to help the
two sides," said Downer. "But the United Nations isn't in the game
of writing blueprints."
The UN Secretary General's Special Advisor on Cyprus made the
remarks following the 31th meeting between the leaders of the two
rival communities since last September in the UN-controlled buffer
zone, which has separated the eastern Mediterranean island for
decades.
"I don't have any ...