Radio 4 Jan 31 13.oo hrs

newlad



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Message Posted:
31/01/2010 13:45

Lets hope its an impartial report today,

Paul.

newlad



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Message Posted:
31/01/2010 14:05

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8486789.stm



Dymond is a well respected reporter,

Paul.

andre 514


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Message Posted:
31/01/2010 14:29

a very fair report paul and I will certainly listen as well...



I'd agree pressure is mounting for a deal, but it will be nothing like enough to move the sides any

and it is not clear whether "a considerable time" before negociation happens again

is in itself a truly realistic proposition:



several commentators have pointed out that every time since 1974 a deal was even talked about,

the gc side are offered less and less in return for their signature



If I sympathised with the official gc position,

I'd only hear the chill beat of the metronome ticking ever more loudly as the years steadily slip away

arrry



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Message Posted:
31/01/2010 14:41

Does the UN General Secretary usually attend any of these meetings ? Sounds like somebody is getting a bit worried. I wonder how much pressure Mr K-moon can put on these two guys .

andre 514


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Message Posted:
31/01/2010 16:46

arry,



not very much surely!



...and even if he could, what possible "solution" could he ever really impose on the two sides?

make cyprus a sort of un colony? hardly!



as the un warned last year they have many more urgent responsibilities

(than unfreezing cyprus) ie to save people in war or from dying of hunger and thirst



the un tried to help cyprus by knocking heads together in 1959 and 2004 and where did that get us?



the un could only apply extreme pressure via military action, facing turkish forces of 600.000

...so understandably there is very little apetite for that among the membership,

perhaps only south cypriots accepting that body bags would inevitibility ship home,

even in the event of a "victory" (whatever "victory" means, as price charles would say)



paul,



unbiased report on world at one,

except the old mantra repeated again of "no cyprus deal, no turkey joining the eu"

...but there is evidence that france and germany want to block turkey regardless

millzer


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Message Posted:
31/01/2010 17:02

Link here to listen again



http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00q9kgh/The_World_This_Weekend_31_01_2010/

millzer


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Message Posted:
31/01/2010 17:05

It is 14 mins 48 secs into the 31 min programme

newlad



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Message Posted:
31/01/2010 21:33

The programme covered moret then one topic.

newlad



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Message Posted:
31/01/2010 21:38

Does anyone know who the reporter was talking to in the grapevine,

Paul.

Pipie


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Message Posted:
31/01/2010 22:06

I was wondering that as well

newlad



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Message Posted:
31/01/2010 22:09

Pipe,

Whats your yhoughts on the outcome,

Paul.

newlad



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Message Posted:
31/01/2010 22:26

Typo sorry typing in the dark,

Paul.