UN General Assembly
1976

165. In Cyprus, too, a just settlement as a basis for a stable peace, is urgently required. The European Community is closely associated with the three countries directly involved with this problem and it has on several occasions manifested its support for the maintenance of the Republic's freedom and unity in conditions of peace. But to achieve these aims it is obviously necessary that substantive negotiations should begin between the representatives of the two communities involved, under the aegis of the United Nations. I believe that I am echoing the feelings of the vast majority of my fellow representatives in calling for an end to the frustrating delays which have dogged the negotiations on Cyprus so far and in expressing our full rapport for the efforts of our Secretary-General and of his representative in Nicosia, Ambassador Perez ds Cuellar, to bring the parties together in a forum of genuine negotiation.