UN calls for Cyprus ‘peace summit’

EurActiv reported that the United Nations on the 1 November 2011 called for a summit to be held in January 2012 between leaders of ethnically split Cyprus aimed at settling a decades-old conflict that has blocked Turkey's bid to join the EU. Cyprus will hold the rotating EU Presidency in the send half of 2012.

ESO: Background information: Talks on Cyprus reunification take a turn for the better, says UN chief http://www.europeansources.info/record/talks-on-cyprus-reunification-take-a-turn-for-the-better-says-un-chief/

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