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Cyprus says to resume stalled peace negotiations

Xinhua, May 27, 2016 Adjust font size:

The stalled Cyprus peace talks will resume after the UN offered explanations about a protocol slip that implied recognition of a breakaway state in the occupied part of Cyprus, the Cypriot government said on Friday.

Government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said in a written statement that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called President Nicos Anastasiades telling him that the UN recognizes only the Cyprus Republic and its government under Anastasiades.

The Cypriot president pulled out of a meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci scheduled for Friday and canceled a meeting with a UN official after Akinci's presence at an official dinner in Istanbul which was offered to world leaders attending the World Humanitarian Summit. Endit