Original sentence: Had there  been a positive vote on both sides, a unified Cyprus would have acceeded to the European Union on 1 May 2004.The plan was placed before the two communities in a simultaneous vote in the reunification referendum of 24 April 2004.Whilst the proposal received a 65% favorable vote from the Turkish community, the Greek Cypriot community rejected it by three to one
Edited sentence: Had there  been a positive vote on both sides, a unified Cyprus would have acceded to the European Union on 1 May 2004.The plan was placed before the two communities and 116,000 Turkish settlers in a parallel and simultaneous crossborder vote in the reunification referendum of 24 April 2004.Whilst the proposal received a 65% favorable vote from the Turkish community mainly because it gave them the effective right of veto in the federal government and parliament and allowed all the Turkish settlers to stay and prevented most of the Greek Cypriot refugees from returning to their homes in the north, the Greek Cypriot community rejected it by three to one because they considered it to be undemocratic, unworkable and unviable and it did not provide for true reunification and sufficient security guarantees nor did it respect their basic human rights including the right to property and the freedoms of movement and settlement thereby cementing Cyprus division permanently