Monday, October 31, 2005

Scrap the Annan plan

"�Scrap the Annan plan�
By Jean Christou

Former UN representative for the island says the Cyprus problem is going nowhere
FORMER UN Resident Representative and Chief of Mission, Gustave Feissel believes the Annan plan is unfixable and should be scrapped in favour of a new approach to a settlement.

In an interview with the Sunday Mail, Feissel, who was involved with the Cyprus issue from 1984 to 1998, the latter five years as Chief of Mission, said the bad feeling engendered by the plan was such that it could not be salvaged as a workable solution.

�I�m not knocking the Annan plan. A lot of work went into it and it�s a very sincere effort, but talking to people here� this has left such a bad taste in people�s mouths that trying to fix it would, in my view, be nearly impossible,� he said."

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