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Monday, January 9, 2017

Cyprus leaders start week of crunch peace talks

[Cypriot President Anastasiades speaks during his meeting with Greek PM Tsipras at the Maximos Mansion in Athens]Leaders of ethnically split Cyprus are scheduled to launch a week of intensive talks from Monday to reach the outline of a peace deal to end decades of division. Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci and Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades were to meet at the United Nations' European headquarters in Geneva for three full days of discussions. New U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who was expected to attend the conference on Thursday, has described the talks as an "historic opportunity" for a breakthrough.


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