SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES REGRET THAT TURKISH CYPRIOT LEADER
CANNOT ATTEND NEW YORK TALKS
Following is the text of a statement issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
His Excellency, Mr. Rauf Denktash, has today informed the United Nations that he is unable to accept the Secretary-General’s invitation conveyed to him at the beginning of this week.� This is a regrettable development.� We hope that it is not Mr. Denktash’s final position.� There is much work to be done and efforts must get back on track without delay and in earnest.� We hope Mr. Denktash will see fit to support the Secretary-General’s good offices by engaging in a new and reinvigorated phase of a search for a comprehensive settlement, starting next week in New York.
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