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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Telegraph | News | Straw visit prompts snub from Cypriots

"Straw visit prompts snub from Cypriots
By Tabitha Morgan in Nicosia and Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor
(Filed: 26/01/2006)

Jack Straw was snubbed yesterday by the Cypriot president, who refused to see him because he had met the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriot statelet.

Greek Cypriot protesters in Nicosia greeted the Foreign Secretary with mock gallows and jeers of 'Jack Straw go home'. One woman hurled her umbrella on to a car in his motorcade."

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