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Quo Vadis Cyprus Forever?
16/02/2012
Author : Global Political Trends Center (GPoT - Turkey)
By Sylvia Tiryaki | Published February 2012
 
A brief glance at the outcome of the latest round of negotiations between the leaders of the two communities in New York in late January, the so-called Greentree Summit, shows us that the two Cypriot communities still agree approximately on what they did in the period before the Annan Plan. At the summit neither side came up with innovative ideas or new proposals. This should not come as a surprise: if there were no incentives for the Greek Cypriots to compromise with the Turkish Cypriots on the issues of governance or property prior to their EU membership, it is difficult to see why there would be now, five months before their EU presidency. Indeed, it does not seem very exaggerated to say that with a couple of differences, the prospects for a solution to the Cyprus problem in 2012 are the same as they were after the failure of the Annan Plan Referendum on the Greek Cypriot side in 2004.

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