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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Helena Smith

It’s now or never for Cyprus reunification, says top UN official

Corpl Anna Rowell from the British army's 71 Engineer Regiment, a member of the UN peacekeeping force, keeps watch from a rooftop.
A UN force has been on the island supervising ceasefire lines and buffer zones since 1964. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

Efforts to reunite Cyprus are approaching a decisive moment, a top UN official has said, as he urged leaders on both sides to show political courage and warned civil society groups: “It’s now or never.”

In a week marking 60 years since the arrival of a UN peacekeeping force on the eastern Mediterranean island, Colin Stewart, the UN’s special representative in Cyprus, said time was running out to settle the decades-long dispute.

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