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David Hannay,
(2005), “Cyprus – The Search for Solution”, I.B. Tauris, London – New
York, ISBN: 1850436657, pp. 256, h/b, d/j. |
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Cyprus Problem has defeated all attempts to resolve it for more than forty
years. From 1996 onwards the UN, with strong support from the US, the UK and
other EU members, mounted the most sustained of all the efforts to reach an
agreement, so that a re-united Cyprus could join the EU in May 2004. Although it
came closer to success than any previous attempt, this one failed too.
From his unique position as the former British Special
Representative for Cyprus, David Hannay examines the underlying
difficulty of finding a basis which both sides could accept; and the complex
inter-relationships between these negotiations and the applications to join the
European Union of both Cyprus and Turkey. Hannay concludes that the Cyprus
problem, for all its complexity and intractability, is not insoluble; and that
Turkey's attempts at European Union membership, by definition, require a Cyprus
solution.
This is the story of a very modern, multi-dimensional
negotiation which came close to success but in the end, as so many previous
Cyprus negotiations had done, failed. In the process of telling, Lord Hannay has
produced a revealing, first-hand account of a profoundly complex situation which
is an exceptional reference tool for all those interested in the modern history
of the region. |
October Review
/ Ekim