"Talat expects progress in Cyprus this year
By Cemil Aybar in Northern Cyprus
The Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat has said that he expects upcoming negotiations process to yield a positive outcome by the end of this year.
“I expect important progress to be achieved by the end of this year and a solution by the beginning of 2009” he said, adding that there was sufficient accumulation of work carried out on the Cyprus Issue in order to achieve that goal."
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