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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Turkey says UN lost neutrality after world body condemns Cyprus roadwork, assault on peacekeepers

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Turkey's foreign minister accused the United Nations of abandoning its neutrality on Tuesday, a day after the U.N. Security Council criticized construction work by Turkish Cypriots inside the buffer zone dividing Cyprus and condemned their assault on U.N. peacekeepers.

In a statement issued Monday, the Security Council described the construction of a road as a violation of the status quo that is contrary to council resolutions. The statement came at the end of emergency closed consultations by the council's 15 members.

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