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Whereas the representatives of the two communities in Cy-
prus, who met in Vienna, Austria, in August 1975 under
the auspices of the Secretary General of the United Na-
tions, reached a humanitarian agreement, known as the
Vienna III Agreement, which, inter alia, states that,
‘‘Greek-Cypriots in the north of the island [of Cyprus]
are free to stay and they will be given every help to lead
a normal life, including facilities for education and for
the practice of their religion, as well as medical care by
their own doctors and freedom of movement in the north
. . . [and] the United Nations will have free and normal
access to Greek-Cypriot villages and habitations in the
north’’;
Whereas the Secretary General of the United Nations, in his
December 10, 1995, report on the United Nations oper-
ation in Cyprus, set out the recommendations contained
in the humanitarian review of the United Nations Peace-
keeping Force in Cyprus (in this concurrent resolution
referred to as ‘‘UNFICYP’’), as endorsed by United Na-
tions Security Council Resolution 1032(95), regarding
the restrictions on the freedoms and human rights of the
enclaved people of Cyprus;
Whereas the Secretary General of the United Nations, in his
June 7, 1996, report on the United Nations Operation in
Cyprus, informed the Security Council that the Greek
Cypriots and Maronites living in the northern part of the
island ‘‘were subjected to severe restrictions and limita-
tions in many basic freedoms, which had the effect of en-
suring that inexorably, with the passage of time, the com-
munities would cease to exist’’;
Whereas 
United 
Nations 
Security 
Council 
Resolution
1062(96), inter alia, expressed regret that ‘‘the Turkish-
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Cypriot side has not responded more fully to the rec-
ommendations made by UNFICYP and calls upon the
Turkish-Cypriot side to respect more fully the basic free-
doms of the Greek-Cypriots and Maronites living in the
northern part of the island and to intensify its efforts to
improve their daily lives’’;
Whereas, on July 31, 1997, Cyprus President Glafcos
Clerides and Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash
agreed to further address this issue along with other hu-
manitarian issues;
Whereas those agreements and recommendations are still far
from being implemented, despite a number of measures
announced in May 2000 by the Turkish side to ease cer-
tain restrictions imposed on movement between the two
sides, which restrictions largely remain in effect;
Whereas the measures against the UNFICYP instituted by
the Turkish side since June 2000 have further com-
plicated the situation;
Whereas on January 22, 1990, Turkey recognized the com-
pulsory jurisdiction of the European Court of Human
Rights;
Whereas on May 10, 2001, the European Court of Human
Rights, in its judgment in the case of Cyprus v. Turkey,
held Turkey, by a vote of 16 to 1, responsible under the
European Convention of Human Rights for continuing
human rights violations committed throughout its 27-
year military occupation of the northern third of Cyprus
against, inter alia, the enclaved people in the occupied
area of Cyprus, and cited Turkey (1) on controlling and
restricting their movements, thus limiting access to their
places of worship and participation in other aspects of re-
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ligious life; (2) on exercising excessive measures of cen-
sorship on school books destined for use by the Karpas
Greek Cypriots; (3) on not securing the peaceful enjoy-
ment of their possessions and not recognizing the inherit-
ance rights of their relatives; (4) on not making available
appropriate secondary education school facilities; (5) on
preventing any prospect of renewing or developing their
community and subjecting them to inhuman living condi-
tions and violating the very notion of human dignity; (6)
on not respecting their private or family life or their
homes; (7) on denying effective remedies in respect of
their complaints; (8) on subjecting them to severe dis-
crimination amounting to degrading treatment; and (9)
on the absence of normal means of communication and
the unavailability in practice of the Greek Cypriot press;
and
Whereas the European Court of Human Rights also ruled
that Turkey’s responsibility cannot be confined under the
European Convention of Human Rights to the acts of its
own soldiers and officials operating in northern Cyprus
but also covers the acts of its subordinate local adminis-
tration, which survived by virtue of the Turkish military
and other support: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring), That Congress—
(1) strongly urges the President to undertake
efforts to end restrictions on the freedoms and
human rights of the enclaved people of Cyprus; and
(2) expresses its intention to remain actively in-
terested in the matter until the human rights and
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fundamental freedoms of the enclaved people of Cy-
prus are restored, respected, and safeguarded.
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