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Friday, January 13, 2017

Cyprus talks to resume on Jan 18, UN hopes for 'last effort'

[UN Secretary General Guterres addresses a news conference after the Conference on Cyprus in Geneva]GENEVA (Reuters) - Talks to resolve the decades-old division of Cyprus ended without agreement on Thursday but with a plan for officials to reconvene on Jan. 18 to tackle the thorny security question, before a fresh attempt to forge a political deal. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Reuters he was confident that the participants were determined to make a "last effort" to find a solution. There was no precise date set for the guarantors of the process - the Greek, Turkish and British foreign ministers - to meet again. . ...


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