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"en.20141113.24.4-406-000"2
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"Mr President, in the early 1990s the two sides in Cyprus were inching towards a deal. The essence of the deal was pretty clear. It would be a land for peace deal. Turkish Cypriots would give up an amount of territory in exchange for recognition as equal partners in a bizonal, bicommunal federation. As that deal was on the point of being signed, in blundered the European Union with its unilateral recognition of one side claiming jurisdiction over the whole island. Immediately one side lost the incentive to negotiate, and the chance for a peaceful confederation was lost.
It is not Turkey whose actions are causing tensions in Cyprus, it is the European Union by its one-sided intervention. One of the two communities voted for the EU peace plan and has been blockaded and punished. The other side voted against it and has been recognised and rewarded. There is a basic injustice here, not only for the people of Turkish Cyprus, but there is a real injustice to Turkey, a friend and ally which in NATO guarded our flank against the Bolshevists for a generation and which we may one day ask to do the same against the Jihadis beyond. This is no way to treat an ally."@en1
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