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New strategy
The twin referenda on the UN reunification blueprint for Cyprus were followed by conflicting interpretations, promises and warnings. Despite cautionary statements that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's plan would be the «last chance» for a solution, and notwithstanding that such warnings were used as a means of pressure on Greek Cypriots to endorse the deal, it is certain that the referenda will not be the end of efforts to overcome the longstanding division on the island. |
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Case not closed
There was a time when enthusiasm and patriotism were not seen as an anachronism and the Greek Cypriots' passion for a union with the motherland shook Greece's political system which, exhausted from war, was unable to deal with the revolutionary momentum.
As a result, instead of a union with Greece, the Cypriots got a never-before-seen form of independence (in 1960) with guarantor powers and no right to self-rule.
When (the elder) George Papandreou, assisted by the US, revived the demand for union, the Acheson plan was finally torpedoed by Nicosia and Athens.
Cyprus remained divided and continued interference by the so-called «national center» in the island's domestic affairs, which culminated in the 1974 coup against Makarios, gave Turkey a pretext for invading the island. |
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