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| Title: | Head of the United Nations Speaks of Recent Developments in Cyprus - (2008-06-11) |
| Description: | Taye-Brook Zerihoun, head of the United Nations mission on the ethnically divided island, briefed the council on the recent developments on the island in the council meeting, the Anatolian Agency reported. No statements were made following the meeting. In his latest report to the UNSC on the work of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), Ban recommended the extension of the UNFICYP’s mandate for an additional six months. Ban also called on Turkish and Greek Cypriots to build on the momentum and make great strides towards reunification in the report, and welcomed the recent progress. “What is especially encouraging is that the leaders reconfirmed, at their meeting on 23 May, the broad outline of a solution, based on a bizonal, bicommunal federation with political equality, as defined by the Security Council in its relevant resolutions,” he wrote in the report. The council is expected to prepare a draft resolution in line with Ban's report and adopt it in its meeting on June 13. The U.N. mission has been in place since 1964, and UNFICYP's mandate on the island will end on June 15.
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