UN / BAN CYPRUS

Following the latest round of UN-facilitated talks between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that he will call a multilateral conference in late April or early May, providing the review of his report to the Security Council on the status of negotiations are positive. UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:35
• Production Date: 25 January 2012
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: POLITICAL AFFAIRS; LAW; INTERNATIONAL LAW; POLITICAL CONDITIONS; POLITICAL CONDITIONS; POLITICAL MOVEMENTS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
• Geographic Subject: CYPRUS
• MAMS Id: U120125d

Description

STORY: UN / BAN CYPRUS
TRT: 1:35
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 25 JANUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations headquarters
2. Various shots, meeting with Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias, Turkish Cypriot Dervis Eroglu and Ban at headquarters
3. Wide shot, Ban with two leaders at stakeout
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The two sides came to Greentree with three main challenges to resolve. The election of the objective, property and citizenship. I asked the two leaders tat this time to make the decisive moves. Discussions over these two days were robust and intensive although limited progress was achieved. I reminded the leaders that this process was
Cypriot-owned and Cypriot-led. The UN is not here to impose solutions upon the sides.”
5. Cutaway, reporter taking notes
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“At this stage of the talks to maintain the momentum and continue negotiations even in an intensive manner is not enough. I have urged the leaders to make decisive steps to move to a final agreement.”
7. Cutaway, reporter taking notes
8. Med shot, Ban two leaders shaking hands

Storyline

Following the latest round of United Nations-facilitated talks between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that he will call a multilateral conference in late April or early May, providing the review of his report to the Security Council on the status of negotiations are positive.

He described the talks that ended yesterday in New York as “robust and intensive”
and called for a decisive move to reach a final agreement.

Ban, who attended the two-day talks between Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias and his Turkish Cypriot counterpart Dervis Eroglu at the Greetree Estate in Long Island said “limited progress” was achieved during the meeting.

He also reminded both parties that the process is Cypriot-owned and Cypriot-led.

“The UN is not here to impose solutions upon the sides,” Ban told reporters at UN Headquarters, adding that the two sides had come to the meeting to make an effort to resolve the main challenges in the process – the issues of the election of the executive, property and citizenship.

He stressed that at this stage of the talks, even maintaining the momentum and continuing negotiations in an intensive manner is not sufficient. “I have urged the leaders to make decisive steps to move to a final agreement,” he added.

In 2008, both sides agreed to work towards “a bicommunal, bizonal federation with political equality, as defined by relevant Security Council resolutions.”

The partnership will comprise a Federal Government with a single international personality, along with a Turkish Cypriot Constituent State and a Greek Cypriot Constituent State, which will be of equal status.