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Cypriot president: reunification solution to meet people's concerns

Xinhua, December 3, 2016 Adjust font size:

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades vowed on Friday that any agreement on the reunification of the partitioned eastern Mediterranean island will meet all expectations and concerns of the people.

"I want to stress and assure Greek Cypriots that no solution will be put before them if it does not satisfy their expectations and does not answer all their reasonable anxieties," said Anastasiades in a televised address.

Anastasiades was commenting on fears that the procedure decided overnight with Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci will offer Turkey the opportunity to maintain guarantee rights over Cyprus.

The leaders of Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities met on a UN-hosted dinner for the two in Nicosia's UN-controlled buffer zone late on Thursday.

During the dinner, the leaders agreed to resume their stalled negotiations for reunification and drew a roadmap, putting off their conclusion from the end of this month to mid-January. Endit