Cyprus leaders agree to speed up peace talks

Leaders of ethnically-split Cyprus agreed to try to speed up slow-moving peace talks to resolve outstanding issues in the decades-old conflict in the island, United Nations envoy Espen Barth Eide said on the 17 September 2014.

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