UN General Assembly
2008

implemented. However, the moral support and resolute 08-51839 12 stance provided Cyprus with a sword and shield that have ensured that it has remained and will continue to remain an undivided independent country with a single sovereignty, single citizenship and single international personality. In addition, the resolutions of the United Nations on Cyprus contain two other important elements. They provide for a process of negotiations in the form of a good offices mission of the Secretary-General and, very importantly, they define the legal and political framework on which the discussions for the federal architecture of the Cypriot State will be built. Both of those elements are crucial. I firmly believe that our success in the new effort that is now beginning will depend upon respecting those essential conditions. The President returned to the Chair. With regard to the process of the Secretary- General’s good offices mission, it entails negotiations with the Cypriots themselves in which they are the principal players. They are the owners of the process. The Cypriots themselves must build the State they