NICOSIA REPORTS COMMUNIQUE ON VIENNA CYPRUS TALKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-126-3-20-6
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: May 3, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/09/23: LOC-HAK-126-3-20-6
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NICOSIA REPORTS COMMUNIQUE ON VIENNA CYPRUS TALKS
TA031226 NICOSIA DOMESTIC SERVICE IN ENGLISH 1200 GMT 3 MAY 75 TA
(TEXT) THE WEEK-LONG CYPRUS INTERCOMMUNAL TALKS IN VIENNA
HAVE JUST ENDED WITH AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE FOR THE. R-E-gPENING OF
NICOSIA AIRPORT. IT WAS AL ---A -E-EW T}T T THE NEXT ROUND OF TALKS
WILL TAKE PLACE I ANNA."nET-WEEK 5 AND 9 JUNE. NOW HERE'S THE
FULL TEXT OF T~INAL COMMUNIQUE:
THE CYPRUS NEGOTIATIONS WERE HELD IN VIENNA FROM APRIL 28 TO
MAY 3. ONE OPEN AND EIGHT CLOSED MEETINGS WERE HELD WITH THE
PARTICIPATION OF THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL, MR WALDHEIM. MR GLAVKOS
KLIRIDHIS REPRESENTED THE GREEK CYPRIOT COMMUNITY AND MR RAUF DENKTAS
REPRESENTED THE TURKISH CYPRIOT COMMUNITY. ALSO PRESENT WERE THE
t1NDER SECRETARY GENERAL FOR SPECIAL POLITICAL AFFAIRS, MR UROUHART,
ANT) MR WALDHEIM'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE TN CYPRUS, MR WECKMANN.
THE DISCUSSIONS WERE HELD IN A FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE.
AS PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED, THE COMMUNIQUE ADDS, THERE WAS AN
EXCHANGE OF VIEWS ON THE POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE CENTRAL
GOVERNMENT, AND CERTAIN PAPERS WERE SUBMITTED. IN ORDER TO
FACILITATE FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF THIS MATTER IT WAS AGREED TO
SET UP AN EXPERT COMMITTEE OF THE TWO PARTIES TO EXAMINE DETAILED
PROPOSALS AND TO REPORT BACK TO THE NEGOTIATORS AT THEIR NEXT MEETING
WITH THE SECRETARY GENERAL IN VIENNA.
THERE WAS ALSO A DETAILED EXAMINATION OF THE QUESTION OF DISPLACED
PERSONS AND OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS OF A POSSIBLE FUTURE
SETTLEMENT IN CYPRUS. IN THIS CONNECTION, THE COMMUNIQUE SAYS,
A NUMBER OF SOLUTIONS OF PRINCIPLE WERE SET FORTH, AND CERTAIN
SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS WERE OUTLINED. SUGGESTIONS WERE ALSO MADE
FOR CERTAIN SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS WERE OUTLINED. SUGGESTIONS
WERE ALSO MADE FOR CERTAIN POSSIBLE INITIAL STEPS I N THIS REGARD.
THE INTERLOCUTORS UNDERTOOK TO GIVE CAREFUL CONSIDERATION TO
ALL THE SUGGESTIONS THAT WERE MADE, WITH A VIEW TO SETTING FORTH
CONCRETE POSITIONS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE SIDES AT THEIR MEETIN3 WITH
MR WALDHEIM IN JUNE.
THE QUESTION OF MISSING PERSONS WAS ALSO DISCUSSED. ALTHOUGH BOTH
SIDES AGAIN AFFIRMED THAT THEY WERE NOT HOLDING UNDECLARED PRISONERS
OF WAR OR OTHER DETAINEES, IT WAS AGREED THAT WHENEVER SUBSTANTIAL
INFORMATION REACHED MR KLIRIDHIS OR MR DENKTAS, A SEARCH WOULD BE
CONDUCTED THROUGH JOINT TEAMS FOR WHICH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS WOULD BE REQUESTED.
REGARDING THE AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE FOR THE REOPENING OF NICOSIA
AIRPORT, THE COMMUNIQUE SAYS THAT AS A FIRST MEASURE THE AIRPORT
WOULD RE REPAIRED BY THE UNITED NATIONS. A JOINT COMMITTEE WILL
'F SFT UIP IN CYFRUy RY THE LEADERS OF TI{E TWO COMMUNITIES FOR THE
I"IIIZI'~lS OF 'OPF.N1 N i THE AIRPORT FOR FULL CIVILIAN I.ISE.
MAY 1t;{1i TFF/CAJ
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/09/23: LOC-HAK-126-3-20-6