Sunday, November 06, 2005

Wishful thinking to hope for a settlement

"Wishful thinking to hope for a settlement
By Loucas Charalambous

FORMER President of the House of Representatives, Alexis Galanos, in a speech he made at seminar recently held in Nicosia, listed four factors, which, in his opinion, dashed any hope of a settlement of the Cyprus problem. These are:

1) Turkey has no incentive whatsoever to allow a solution to the Cyprus problem before she joins the EU and this is still a distant prospect, if it exists at all.

2) The two communities are learning to live and prosper side by side and security is perceived (wrongly I believe), to be achieved with the status quo. "

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By Loucas Charalambous