On Tuesday, the UN Security Council urged Greek and Turkish community leaders on the divided island of Cyprus to continue direct talks, saying their goal of reaching agreement by June was feasible.
Greek Cypriot leader Glafcos Clerides and his Turkish Cypriot counterpart Rauf Denktash ended five weeks of talks on February 19th and said they would meet again on March 1st, according to AFP.
The Security Council president, Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, stated that council members called upon the two men to resume talks "in a spirit of compromise and with a sense of urgency and political determination, so as to narrow the differences between them."
Zinser, Mexico's ambassador to the United Nations, was speaking to reporters after the council was briefed by the UN envoy to Cyprus, Alvaro De Soto, who participated in the talks on Cyprus.
"Members of the council share the view expressed by each of the two leaders that it should be the objective to reach agreement by June 2002 and that this objective is a feasible one," Zinser said. (Albawaba.com)
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