UN General Assembly
1979

38. We have accepted federation—although in the past such a solution was considered by many constitutional experts as completely unacceptable for a small island like Cyprus. But when we speak of "federation", we mean true federation, a federation that would function properly and within which the right to move freely, the right of settlement and the right of property would be safeguarded and where human rights would be fully and uniformly applied and respected. 39. What the other side apparently wants is not a federation but the creation of two separate States with separate borders, separate armies, separate treaty- making capacity and permits and visas to move from one region of such so-called federation to the other. Such "federation" would be tantamount to complete partition.