{"id":120865,"date":"2021-05-01T12:51:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T04:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120865"},"modified":"2021-05-01T12:51:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T04:51:55","slug":"new-round-of-un-mediated-cyprus-talks-fail-to-make-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120865","title":{"rendered":"New round of UN-mediated Cyprus talks fail to make breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/world\/New-round-of-UN-mediated-Cyprus-talks-fail-to-make-breakthrough-1247425?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/459\/45970935.295.jpg\" alt=\"Cyprus was a British colony until 1960\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Cyprus was a British colony until 1960<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GENEVA, May 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A new round of UN-mediated talks to find a lasting solution to the decades-old dispute over the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus have failed like so many others before it.<br><br>Informal meetings that began on Tuesday were ended on Thursday after the Greek and Turkish Cypriot sides were unable to find enough common ground to open official negotiations, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I do not give up,&#8221; Guterres said in Geneva, where the discussions were held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he would convene a new round of informal talks, which would again include representatives from all sides.<br><br>Guterres had Greek-Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiades and Turkish-Cypriot President Ersin Tatar meet in person, in a fresh bid to jump-start negotiations on the political status of Cyprus since it was split almost 50 years ago.<br><br>The Turkish Cypriot side is still insisting on a two-state solution, Guterres said, while the Greek Cypriot side is in favour of a federation comprising two states with a strong central government, a goal shared by previous UN resolutions.<br><br>Cyprus was a British colony until 1960.<br><br>It has been divided into a Greek-Cypriot and a smaller Turkish-Cypriot part in the north since a Greek coup and a Turkish military intervention in 1974. Only Turkey recognizes Northern Cyprus as a full state.<br><br>The whole of Cyprus became a member of the European Union in 2004, but EU law is only valid in the southern part of the island until a possible reunification. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyprus was a British colony until 1960 GENEVA, May 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A new round of UN-mediated talks to find a lasting solution to the decades-old dispute over the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus have failed like so many others before it. Informal meetings that began on Tuesday were ended on Thursday after the Greek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":120867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120865"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}