A new chance for peace in Cyprus?

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The Debates feature from Euro|Topics offers English (+ French and German) translations of a selections of articles in European news sources on this topic.

Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks0The chief negotiators of the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots met on 25 September 2016 with UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon. They had reached an agreement on four of the six chapters in the reunification negotiations and a deal on the reunification of the island was hopefully to be concluded by the end of 2016, according to media reports.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the joint commitment to intensify efforts even further, in line with the stated desire of the leaders of both communities to achieve a comprehensive settlement in 2016.

The Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot media, however, disagreed in their evaluation of the results.

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