Baroody was commenting on the suspension of all Turkish Cypriot participation in bicommunal activities, by edict of Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktash, in reprisal for the European Union's mid-December rebuff of Turkey's membership bid.
Rapprochement requires more deeds and less words.
Britain also criticised the Turkish move. The United Nations are making efforts to persuade the Turkish Cypriots to resume bicommunal contacts. He said there is a generation of people on both sides of the divide, who do not know the other. Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkish troops invaded and occupied 37 per cent of its territory. An HRI Project.