UN General Assembly
1978

Turkish Cypriot leadership. Negotiations between the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots cannot really be freely conducted, as experience has demonstrated, while .. the occupation troops remain on the island. This has the effect of making the negotiations nugatory, as has been confirmed by the official proposals prepared in Ankara and submitted to the Secretary-General in April 1978. These proposals render manifest the design of partition and the concern of the. aggressor to legalize the faits accomplis created by the. aggression. We would have been entitled to refuse any negotiations until the occupation troops were withdrawn from Cyprus in conformity with the United Nations resolutions. We would have been entitled to refuse to talk to anyone until the United Nations resolutions were implemented. We would have been entitled to refuse to do anything at all until at least paragraph 2 of resolution 3212 (X?,IX), calling for the. withdrawal of the foreign troops from Cyprus, was implemented. But in a spirit of goodwill, we did not do so. On the contrary, we went well