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Saturday, November 5, 2016

AP Explains: Rival Cyprus leaders talk land in Switzerland

[FILE - In this Friday, May 15, 2015 file photo, Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades, left, Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, right, and United Nations envoy Espen Barth Eide symbolically join hands after their talks at a UN compound in the Cypriot divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus. Past efforts to solve the ethnical division of Cyprus have failed, but details are revealed Saturday Nov. 5, 2016, the leaders are heading to the Swiss resort of Mont Pelerin for meetings next week that could be the precursor to one last summit to sort out the final details of a deal. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, FILE)]NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — We've been here before. Whether it was Geneva, Switzerland, Troutbeck in New York, or Greentree, Pennsylvania, the leaders of Cyprus' rival Greek- and Turkish-speaking communities have in the past locked horns in plush foreign resorts to thrash out a deal that would end this tiny, east Mediterranean island's ethnic division. And they have failed.


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