Cyprus Mail2 Aug 2026

Did Gueterres bungle the Cyprus Peace Conference in 2017?

Or was the problem that a bicommunal bizonal federation with political equality was a vote loser?

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has been and gone. It was nice of him to visit Cyprus before his second five-year term ends in December 2026, but his visit reminded me of the effect of a visit by the BBC’s former war correspondent Martin Bell and his television crew....

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