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TSY34 SSS IMMEDli\TE NICOSIA 625 22 13112:
ETATPRIORITE
UNAT IONS
NEvJYORK
CODE CABLE
TO:
FROM:
SECRETARY-GENERAL
PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATE: 22 JULY 1976
IMMED i ATE
UNNUMBERED
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1 DISTRIBUT -· I ... ·- ••· .. -- .. [i $ecretary-Gene:r-al
□ >mned [1',Guy er
Buffum D Tar,g □ Sr.r,,chenko □ y,1:·· QI':' r thart 0 Ry.,.:.1
I,5 ::
O Jackson
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1. lN LIGHT OF MY CABLES ON MY VISITS IN ANKARA AND ATHENS AND
SUBSEQUENT CONSULTATIONS IN NICOSIA, MY EVALUATION NEED NOT BE
AS DETAILED AS ORIGINALLY THOUGHT.
2. AS FAR AS SIXTH ROUND OF TALKS UNDER YOUR AUSPICES IS CONC
ERNED, WE CLEARLY LACK SCENARIO WHICH WOULD GIVE REASONABLE
CHANCE FOR NEGOTIATING PROCESS TO BE MAINTAINED THEREAFTER.
BASED ON WHAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD NOT ONLY IN ANKARA AND ATHENS
BUT ALSO BY ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS AND THIS MOf<NING BY DENKTASH,
THERE IS INDEED NO HORE OF REACH I NG AT SIXTH ROUND COMMON Bl\S IS
~D THUS MIXEO COMMITTEE STAGE. TURKISH SIDES REFUSAL TO SUBMIT
~D EXAMINE CONCRETE PROPOSALS AT SIXTH ROUND AND GKCYP SIDES
3. IT IS SIGNIFICANT TH,~T /l.LTHOUGH PM<TIE~ A0<E PHEPr.F:ED TO
SEND THEIR REPf<ESENTATIVES TO SIXTH ROUi'i\! IF CONI/E:-::::D BY YOU,
MAKARIO•S, DENKTASH, BITSIOS AND CHAGLAYANGIL ALL C/1UTION YOU
FROM DOING SO WITHOUT \\!ELL-PREPARED SCENARIO. IN ADDITION,
GKCYP SIDE HAS REPEATED ITS VJARNIGN THAT IN CASE OF FJ\ILURE
Cf' s I XTH ROUND TH Is hlOULD BE MADE PUBL I CL y KNOvm BY THEM.
DENOUNCING TURKEY IN PROCESS.
' THERE IS ALSO AEGEAN CRISIS WHICH APPEARS TO GATHER MOMENTUM.
Q.IITE APART FROM CONSIDERATIONS IN 2 AND 3 ABOVE, IT \-JOULD SEEM
WISE TO AWAIT OUTCOME OF CRISIS IN COMING DAYS OR WEEKS BEFORE
MAKING ATTEMPT TO BRING CYPRIOT COMMUNITIES TOGETHER UNDER
YOUR AUSP l CES AT NEW ROUND.
5. LARGELY BASED ON THEIR OWN SOURCES, REPRESENTATIVES OF
NINE HERE AND ALSO US AMBASSADOR GAVE ME TO UNDERSTAND THESE LAST
FEW DAYS THAT IT WOULD BE UNFAIR AND INP.PPROPRIATE TO URGE
YOU TO CONVENE SIXTH ROUND AT THIS JUNCTURE, REGARDLESS OF
RISKS JNVOLVED IN REGARD TO NEGOTIATING PROCESS AND CREDIBILITY
OF YOUR HIGH OFFICE •
. 6. THEREFORE FULLY SHARE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN YOUR UNNUMBERED
. Cf 19 JULY THAT IT i·JOULD BE COUNTER-PRODUCT I VE TO CONVENE
SIXTH ROUND IN NEAR FUTURE.
1. \ HA~E BEEM PURSUING IDEA THAT l CONTINUE TO PaEPARE AT
LEDRA WITHIN FRAME-WORK OF HUMANITARIAN ENCOUNTERS GROUND FOR
SIXTH ROUND. THIS ALSO PROVES DIFFICULT. AS FAR AS GKCYPS ARE
CONCERNED THEY AGREE THAT TH 1.S BE DONE BUT ONLY AFTER NON
PllGNED CONFERENCE IN COLOMBO. IT tS EVIDENT THAT MAKARIOS
IN PERSON WANTS TO LAUNCH THERE STRONG ATTACK ON TURKEY AND
OOES NOT VJ ANT TO BE STOPPED IN HIS TRACKS BY ANYONE \'JHO COULl;
SAY QUOTE LET US NOT cm,i JJt::f•Jii TURKEY S l!~GE Sr,
HIS CONSULTATIONS ON BEHALF OF SECGEN TO CG~VENE SIXTH HOUND.
UNQUOTE
AS FAR AS ~ENKTASH IS CONCERNED, HE FELT THIS MORNING THAT BECAUSE
a= GKCYP RENEWED OFFENSIVE (l>Y INSCRIBING ITEM ON GA AGENDA,
BY TRYING TO vJITHHOLD SRI LANKA VISA FOR CELIK AND BY MAKARIOS
2J JULY SPEECH), N_O REPEAT NO HUMANITARIAN MEETINGS SHOULD BE
HELD AND EVEN LESS SHOULD CONSULTATIONS TAKE PLACE AT LEDRA ~ - _,. _,_____ - - -
·--.......,
IN PREPARATION FOR SIXTH ROUND. WHEN REMINDED THAT LATTER HAD
BEEN CHAGLAYANGlLS OWN IDEA, DENKTASH RETORTED THAT INSCRIPTION
OF CYP:<US ITEM ON GA AGENDA AND GKCYP MANOEUVRING FOR NON-
~ I GNED CONFERENCE WAS NOT KNOWN TO TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER
\:JHEN HE MADE THAT SUGGESTION. EVENTUALLY, DENKTASH AGREED TO
CONSULT \\/ITH ANKARA ON PROPOSED LEDHA MEETINGS.
TENTATIVELY, IT HAS BEEN AGREED THAT I CALL ON HIM IN ONE WEEKS
TIME.
a I REGRET THAT MY EVALUATION LACKS HOPEFUL ELEMENTS BUT IT
lS FACT THAT GRECO/TURKISH CONTENTIEUX AND INTERC0MMUNAL REL
ATIONS, WHICH CANNOT BE DIVORCED FROM EACH OTHER, ARE GOING
THROUGH VERY DIFFICULT AND POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS PERIOD. ENDALL
READ WELL PAR 2 SIXTH LINE
THERE IS INDEED NO HOPE •••••••••
SY36 SSS IMMEDIATE NICOSIA 532 22 13112:
ETATPRIORITE
UNAT IONS
NEWYORK:
IMMEDIATE
CODE CABLE
TO: SECRETARY-GENERAL
FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATE: 22 JULY 1976
IMMEDIATE
UNNUMBERED BBB
.· !? I STg l/1.UTi: 0 N Q/.Secretary-Go~eral 0,,A:hmed ff ,Guyer 0 Buffum 0 Tang D Shevchenko DJ1uy (?"Urquhart 0 Rya:1 D Liu 0 Ko~o 0 Lansky
• B Jack~son .·
g =--------·--"-- ----~~ .. ~""'-
____ _,
L DENKTASH INFORMED ME MORNING 22 JULY THAT FROM NOW ON HE,
(INCLUDING HIS PRIME MIN!STER AND MEMBERS OF CABINET), WOULD
NO LOFGER ACCEPT ANY LETTERS OR OTHER WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS
FROM ANY UN OR DIPLOMATIC OFFICIALS IF SUCH LETTERS AND COMM
UNICATIONS DID NOT BEAR THEIR PROPER TITLES, I.E. QUOTE
PRESIDENT OF THE TURKISH FEDERATED STATE OF CYPRUS, OR MINISTER
Cf THE TURKISH FEDERATED STATE OF CYPRUS, ETC.
~ TIME HAD COME, HE SAID WITH GREAT FIRMNESS, TO TAKE THIS
STEP= AFTER ALL, HIS COMMUNITY HAD ELECTED HIM PRESIDENT OF THE TURKISH FEDERATED STATE ANn PRIMJ:" MIIIIC.-Tl"'.'n .......... , ... ___ _
4. BOTH I AND GORGE EXPLAINED TO DENKTASH IMPLICATIONS OF,
~D PROBLEMS ARISING FROM, HIS DEMAND TO BE ADDRESSED HENCEFORTH
AS QUOTE PRESIDENT OF Tl-IE TURKISH FEDERATED STATE OF CYPRUS
UNQUOTE AND THAT I WOULD HAVE TO REFER V1ATTER TO YOUR HEAD
QJARTERS FOR CONSIDERATION.
5. ALTHOUGH HE AGREED THAT ANY CONTROVERSY OVER HIS TITLE
WOULD NOT PREVENT MEETINGS BETWEEN ME AND HIM AND OUR RESPECTIVE
COLLEAGUES, HE WAS EMPHATIC THAT HENCEFORTH ANY LETTER NOT
BEARING HIS TITLE WOULD BE ENTIRELY DISREGARDED AND TREATED
AS NOT RECEIVED. WHILE HE DID NOT UTTER WORD QUOTE UDI UNQUOTE,
HE SAID SEVERAL TIMES THAT ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS WITH HIS POLICY
WAS PUSHING HIM OVER QUOTE THE EDGE UNQUOTE. HE MADE PARTICULAR
MENTION OF INSCRIPTION OF CYPRUS ON GA AGENDA, APPARENT
SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS BY GKCYPS TO DISSUADE FOREIGN MINISTRY
CF SRI LANKA GOVERNMENT FROM ISSUING VISA TO CELIK THUS PRE
VENTING HIM FROM REACHING COLOMBO FOR NON ALIGNED CONFERENCE,
~D EXPECTED RENEWED ATTEMPT BY GKCYPS TO HAVE DENKTASH BARRED
FROM ADDRESSING GA PLENARY.
~ I FOUND DENKTASH VERY SELF CONFIDENT, DETERMINED MORE THAN
EVER TO COMBAT WITH ALL MEAN AT HIS DISPOSAL MAKARIOS AND
HIS GOVERNMENT QUOTE REPRESENTING WHOLE OF CYPRUS UNQUOTE.
7. PLEASE ADVISE. IN VIEW OF lTS SERIOUS NATURE YOU MAY WISH
TO TAKE MATTER WITH TURKISH GOVERNMENT.
8. THERE IS OTHER SOMEWHAT CONNECTED MATTER. DENKTASH INVITES
FOR DINNER AT KYRENIA DOME HOTEL 26 JULY. ON ACCOUNT OF TITLE . !
USED ON INVITATION CARD DIPLOMATS HERE ARE NOT EXPECTED TO ATTEND. \
SAME DOES NOT APPEAR TO APPL y TO UNF I GYP OFF re I ALS s INCE WE BOTH
IN PEACE-KEEPING AND PEACE-MAKING SENSE MUST AS'MATTER OF
,c --v ~;y35 SSS IMMEDIATE NICOSIA 209 22 1j11Z : a..
ETATPRIORITE
UhAT IONS '
NEWYORK:
l,•:11iED I ATE
TJ: GUYER
CODE CABLE
FiW; ;,: PEREZ DE CUELLAR/PREM CHAND
~ATE: 22 JULY 1976
~U~BER: UNFICYP 1154
YOUrt 523
iiU!.1 Li. _
1. WHEN SRSG WITH SPA MET DENKTASH MORNING 22 JULY, THEY WERE --------- ' TvLD THAT TURKISH FORCES WOULD NQ LONGER DEAL WITH HUMANITARIAN
MATTERS IN AREAS BETWEEN FDLS= FROM NOW ON THESE QUESTIONS WERE
TO BE ~{EFEr-rnED TO DENKTASH AND Hts ADMINISTRATION. FOR THIS
REASON RELEVANT LETTER WOULD HAVE TO BE SENT BY SRSG TO DENKTASH
~D NOT TRANSMITTED AT COS LEVEL. THIS WILL BE DONE.
2. AT MEETING WITH DENKTASH PRINCIPLES GOVERNING AREAS BETWEEN
LINES (NEITHER SIDE TO EXERCISE AUTHORITY BEYOND ITS FDLS~
NO RETROACTIVITY, EXISTING LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS, INCLUDING
AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES, TO BE MAINTAINEX) WERE REPEATED AND HE
HAD NO AuVERSE REACTION. ON POLITICAL PLANE THEREFORE PROBLEM
~PEARS TO HAVE BEEN OVERCOME. WHAT REMAINS, OF COURSE, IS
NEGOTIATION OF MUTUALLY ACCEPTABLE LOCAL ARRANGEMENT AT AVLONA
M-ilCH WILL BE CONDUCTED AT LOCAL MILITARY LEVEL, DENKTASH
a1v1N~ AS HE SAID. GUIDELINES TO TURKISH MILITARY.
SY28 F r~ I COS l A 70 2110532 •
ETAT
UNAT IONS
L1?ff l CYP 1148 •
-------CODE MESSAGE---------
TO GUYER
PEREZ DE CUELLAR/PREM CHAND
21 JULY 1976
UNFICYP 1148
YOUR 520.
1. NO SIMILAR LETTER HAS BEEN RECEIVED FROM TKCYPS.
2. iT lS CORRECT THAT DALIBARD WAS DENIED CO-OPERATION IN
TURKISH-CONTROLLED AREA FOR REASONS GIVEN IN DENKTASH'S LETTER
OF 25 MAY TRANSMITTED TO YOU BY ATALAY. UNFICYP 574 AND GORGE'S
LETTER TO SHERRY OF 3 JULY REFER+
COL 2119761148 520 1 2 25 3 +
SY27 F NICOSIA 47 '2110522 •
l
ETAT
UNATIONS
NEWYORK •
UNF I CYP 1140 •
TO GUYER
FROM PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATE 21 JULY 1976
NUMBER UNFICYP 1147
CODE MESSAGE
-----------.
FURTHER UNFICYP 1140.
___ ¢ Q
M ~/7
AT REQUEST OF DENKTASH, WHO IS DETAINED AT CONFERENCES IN
KYRENIA, MEETING WITH HIM HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR 1100 LT
22 JULY +
COL 1147 1140 1100 LT 22 +
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-
SY29 F NICOSIA 126 211os2z •
E.TAT
Ut!ATIOi~S
LlNF I CYP 1145
---------CODE MESSAGE-----
TO GUYER
Frt0d PEREZ DE CUELLAR/PREM CHAND
DATE 21 JULY 1976
UNFICYP 1145
YJUR 521.
1. YOU2 PARAS. 1 AND 2 AFFIRMATIVE.
2. BOTH SIDES WERE INFORMED BY SRSG, AND THEY AGREED, THAT
NEITHER OF THEM CAN EXERCISE AUTHORITY BEYOND THEIR RESPECTIVE
f;;Ls. AS YOU POINTED OUT YOUR .COMMENTS WOULD CEASE TO APPLY IF
00TH SIDES WERE AGREEA3LE TO FORMULA, WHICH THEY WERE. AS STATED , IN 1142 BOTH SIDES ACCEPT AND UNDERSTAND THAT THERE lS NO RETRO
ACTIVITY AND THAT THEREFORE AGRICULTURAL STATUS QUO PRIOR TO
22 JULY REMAINS. THIS DOES NOT PRECLUDE FUTURE AD HOC LOCAL
3. TURKISH FORCES/COS IS AVAILABLE FOR UNFlCYP COS ONLY MORNING 22 JULY +
COL 2119761145 521 1 1 2 2 1142 22 3 22 +
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v, .A,;;V V JtiVw"q ♦ 11 w•
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ETATPRIORITE
UNAT IONS
NEWYORKm
. .; .( c...., · C".'l..Q.RlL
CODE CABLE
TO : SECRETARY-GENERAL
FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATED 20 JULY 1976
UNNUMBERED
1. MEETING WITH ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS, SUMMARIZEB-IN UNFtCYP 1140,
CONFIRMS CORRECTNESS OF ASSESSMENT IN YOUR UNNUMBERED OF 19
JULY, TO EFFECT THAT CONVENING SIXTH ROUND IN NEAR FUTURE WOULD
BE COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE.
2. I AM PURSUING SUGGESTION THAT INTERLOCUTORS MEET WITH ME
AT LEDRA, PREFERABLY WITHIN GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF HUMANITARIAN
MEETINGS, IN FURTHER EFFORT TO PREPARE GROUND FOR NEXT ROUND
UNDER YOUR AUSPICES. ARCHBISHOP'S REACTION THIS MORNING
WAS NOT ADVERSE BUT UNDERSTANDABLY HE DOES NOT WANT THESE LEDRA
MEETINGS TO APPEAR TO REPLACE S!XTH ROUND. I OBVIOUSLY DID NOT
TELL MAKARIOS THAT IDEA OF SUCH PflELIMINARY MEETINGS ORIGINATED
WITH CAGLAYANGIL.
I
..
3. WHEN I MENTIONED ABOVE TO BARUTCU THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE HIS
DEPARTURE FOR ANKARA, HE REMEMBERED THAT HIS MINISTER HAD LAUNCHED
lDEA WHEN I WAS IN ANKARA.
4. WlLL EXPLORE THIS MATTER FURTHER WITH PAPADOPOULOS MORNING
21 JULY AND ALSO WI TH DENKTASH SAME DAY.
COL: 20 1976 1. 1140 19 2. 3. 4. 21
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l Sy 15 S NICOSIA 11 20 1339Z•
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ETATPRfORITE
CODE CABLE.
TO : GUYER I
friQt!,: PEREZ DE CUELLAR / PREM CHAND '
L ~ATED: 20 JULY 1976.
NUMBER: UNFICYP 1142 _________ ...,,.., _____________ ....,.. __
1. SUdSTANCE YOUR 516 WAS DISCUSSED BY SRSG AND SPA FIRST WITH
A.~CrlBlSnOP MAKARIOS (AFTER SPA AND COS BRIEFED MINISTER OF INTERlOR)
AijD TrlEN WITH BARUTCU AND INHAN.
2. THERE WAS GENERAL CONSENT ON FORMULA IN PARAGRAPH 1 OF
~jffCYP 1135, INCLUDING NON-RETROACTIVITY AND PRINCIPLE OF OVER
100 LOCAL "ARRANGEMENTS CONCLUDED SINCE SEPTEMBER 1974 REMAINtNG
Ut\AFFECTED.
3. B~?.JTCU ANi INHAN CONFIRMED THAT WAY WAS NOW OPEN TO ARRIVE
,:.:..., l :;iL Y AT LOCAL AD HOC ARRANGEMENT AT AVLONA. UNF lCYP COS AND
T0 iii( I SH FORCES COS ARE TO MEET SOONEST FOR TH IS PURPOSE.
COL: 1142 1. 516 2. 1135 100 1974 3. ••
SY 16 S NlCOSlA 160 20 1339Z=
ETATPRlORlTE
UNAT IONS
NEWYORK=
CODE CABLE
TO : SECRETARY-GENERAL
FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATED 20 JULY 1976
UNNUMBERED
---------
1. MEETING WITH ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS, SUMMARIZE~ tN UNFlCYP 1140,
CONFlRMS CORRECTNESS OF ASSESSMENT lN YOUR UNNUMBERED OF 19
JULY, TO EFFECT THAT CONVEN,NG SIXTH ROUND lN NEAR FUTURE WOULD
BE COUNTER-PRODUCTtVE. ---.,,-~ ... -~"''"...,,_,~----"''-'' '"',.,,,,._
, r.,,,,..,.,,.,.,,y,.-.• • " A;,, .. ,,•"~,..,.,.~~• ,,..,.,,,_..,..,,s.-,_,
~ AM PURSUING SUGGESTION THAT lNTERLOCUTORS MEET WlTH ME
AT LEDRA, PREFERABLY WITHIN GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF HUMANITARIAN
MEETINGS, IN FURTHER EFFORT TO PREPARE GROUND FOR NEXT ROUND
UNDER YOUR AUSPICES. ARCHBISHOP'S REACTION THIS MORNING
WAS NOT .ADVERSE BUT UNDERSTANDABLY HE DOES NOT WANT THESE LEDRA
MEETINGS TO APPEAR TO REPLACE SIXTH ROUND. t OBVIOUSLY DID NOT
TELL MAKARIOS THAT IDEA OF SUCH PRELIMINARY MEETINGS ORIGINATED
WITH CAGLAYANGtL.
~ WHEN l MENTIONED ABOVE TO BARUTCU THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE HIS
DEPARTURE FOR ANKARA, HE REMEMBERED THAT HIS MINISTER HAD LAUNCHED
IDEA WHEN I WAS IN ANKARA.
4. WILL EXPLORE THIS MATTER FURTHER WITH PAPADOPOULOS MORNING
21 JULY AND ALSO WJTH DENKTASH SAME DAY.
□ Jac!~son
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SY 14 SSS NI COS l A t::43 20 10452•
c.T ,4. TP R l OR I TE
, I
CODE CABLE
TO : SECRETARY-GENERAL
FRCM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR
~ATE~: 20 JULY 1976
i\lUiv,BE.R: UNF I CYP 1140
1. MORNlNG 20 JULY WAS RECEIVED BY ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS.
ViEETlNG, WHICH LASTED ONE HOUR, WAS ALSO ATTENDED BY GORGE.
2. AFTER I HAD BRIEFED ARCHBISHOP ON MY VISITS TO ANKARA AND
ATHENS, HE MAINTAINED HIS WELL-KNOWN POSITION THAT MIXED COMMITTEE
filAGE COULD NOT BE ARRIVED AT WITHOUT REACHING, UNDER YOUR AUSPICES.
AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE ON TERRITORIAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES•
IN ORDER TO SECURE SUBSTANTIAL RAPPROCHEMENT AMOUNTING TO SUCH
AG~~EEf.1ENT IN PRINCIPLE, IT WAS NECESSARY, AT NEXT ROUND.
1 CES, TO EX.!.'.: I ~E COf-.CRETf 'ROPOSALS,
PA1TlC~LARLY ON TERRITORY, AND NOT MERELY PROPOUND CRITERIA AND
PRINClPLES. WHATEVER ARGUMENTS TURKISH SIDE HAD FOR SETTING
UP MIXED COMMITTEES QUICKLY, MOTIVATION THEREFOR COULD NOT POSSIBLY
£c. S!NCEteE. lT WAS SIMPLY DEVICE TO PROCRASTINATE~ TO GAIN TIME
AT LEAST UNTIL TURKISH ELECTIONS IN ONE YEAR'S TIME AND,
AT SA,•iE T iME, DIMINISH YOUR PERSONAL ROLE AND THAT OF UN IN ______ . .,,..,, .. , ... ,,--.---~ .. -" , "'.,..,, .
NEGOTIATING PROCESS= HE WAS CONVINCED THAT TURKISH SIDE WOULD
A:\.D C9~U~D,,i'J9J, BECAUSE OF WEAK COALITION, NEGOTIATE SERIOUSLY ..,._, •
1 , , • --~ •• ,l -•~"#"--,,,•· r . ..," ,~,,-~,._-.,t1.,, ·-""°'' .,.~..,,,,,_,..........,,._~ -,,, , ___ ,.,_
4T co;•1H I TTEE LEVEL E I THER.
~ l~ CIRCUMSTANCES, ARCHBISHOP COULD NOT SEE HOW NEXT ROUND,
IF COi~VEm::;n BY YOU NOW, COULD BUT LEAD TO IMPASSE• HE SHARED
F0R~l2:~ i'f;INISTER BlTSIOS' VIEW THAT IT WAS NATURAL FOR YOU TO ~
i,'d5rt TO ENSURE IN ADVANCE THAT NEGOTIATING PROCESS WOULD NOT -, .... ,
co:;c: TO ABRUPT END AT NEXT ROUND.
4. i"iEETING AT NOON 21 JULY DENKTASH.
COL: 1140 20 1976 1. 20 2. 3. 4. 21 ••
•
UNATIONS
NEWYORK~
OUTGOING CODE CABLE
!VOST lMMEDlATE
TO: GUYER
FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR/PREM CHAND
DATE: 19 JULY 1976
NUMBER: UNFlCYP 1135
1. NOON 19 JULY SSSRRRSSSGGG AND SSSPPPAAA HAD OVER TWO-HOUR
MEETING WITH AMBASSADORS BARUTCU AND INHAN. WHICH DEALT MAINLY
WITH AVLONA PROBLEM.
2. AFT£R CONSULTING TURKISH FCtRCES COMMANDER GUNERI. BARUTCU
AND I NH.AN AGREED THAT F I.ELDS OllT OF SIGHT OF TURK I SH FORCES
CAN BE lrJATERED ON A CONTROLLED AND SELECT l VE BASIS AS OF 1600
LOCAL TIME TODAY, 19 JULY• ALTHOUGH GUNERI SPECIFIED THAT NO
TRACTORS MAY BE USED, CONSERVATION MEASURES AGREED UPON WILL
BE OF CONSIDERABLE HELP.
3. WHILE AGREEING, CONTRARY TO OREKS REPEATED CLAIMS IN LETTERS
TO SSSPPPAAA, THAT AREAS BETWEEN LINES ARE NOT COVERED BY DECEMBER
PrtOCES-VERBAL, BARUTCU AND INHAN WANT, IN ADDITION TO PROCES
VERBAL, EXCHANGE OF LETTERS AT CHIEFS OF STAFF LEVEL WHICH WOULD
NOT BE PUBLISHED, SPECIFYING +HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES IN AREAS
BETWEEN THE RESPECTIVE FDLS ARE SUBJECT TO THE CONSENT OF BOTH
SIDES, AS EXPRESSED, WHEN AN WHERE NECESSARY. THROUGH APPROPRIATE
r-l.iTUALLY ACCEPTABLE AD HOC LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS+.
~ TUR~ISH OFFICIA~~ MADE IT CLEA~ THAT THEY 1£ MUCH MO~E
&NTERESTED IN PRINCIPLE THAN IN SERIES OF LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
SlNCE THEY CONSIDERED THAT CULTIVATION OF AREAS BETWEEN FDLS
l.NDER ESCORT Of UNFICYP HAS IN MAIN BENEFITED GKCYPS IRRESPECTIVE
a= OWNERSHIP OF LAND, THUS PREJUDGING FUTURE POLITICAL DISPOSfl'ION
Cf" THESE AREAS •.
5. IT WAS POINTED OUT TO THEM OF COURSE THAT WITH EXCEPTION
Cl= PLACES SUCH AS PYLA, LOUROUJ I NA AND KOKK f NA·, SINCE AUGUST
:2964 TKCYPS FARMERS HAD NEVER EXPRESSED DESIRE TO CULTIVATE
NJY AREA BETWEEN LINES.
6. WHILE ABOVE FORMULA IS IN GENERAL LINE WITH YOUR 471 AS
CONFIRMED BY YOUR 514, WE FEEL THAT IT SHOULD NOT BE APPLIED
RETROACTIVELY• IN OTHER WORDS, CURRENT LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS OF WHICH
!HERE ARE 13 IN SECTOR 2 ALONE, SHOULD REMAIN IN EFFECT,
INCLUDING HARVESTING LINES EXISTING SINCE SEPTEMBER 1974.
THEREFORE ABOVE FORMULA COULD INCLUDE PROVISO THAT lT WILL BE
EFFECTIVE AS FROM•••••• JULY 1976. ALSO, THIS DEVELOPMENT SHOULD
BE BROUGHT TO ATTENTION OF GKCYP SIDE FOR THEIR CONCURRENCE.
7. AS LATTER MAY BE DONE TOMORROW, 20 JULY, WHEN SSSRRRSSSGGG
CALLS ON ARCHBISHOP, WOULD APPRECIATE RECEIVING YOUR GUIDANCE ... OOONEST. TURKISH OFFICIALS SPECIFIED THAT THEY NEED AGREEMENT -
\
IN PRINCIPLE ON ABOVE FORMULA BY 21 JULY, OTHERWISE WHOLE AREA
BETWEEN LINES WILL BECOME CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE.+
COL 19 1976 1135 11921600 19 3 4 5 1964 6 47151413 2
1974 1976 7 20 21++
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ETATPRiORITE
UNAT l ONS
U:~F l CYP 1137
CODE CABLE .... .........._ ____ __
TO: GUYER
PEREZ DE CUELLAR/ PREM CHAND
DATE: 19 JULY 1976
NUMBER: UNF l CYP 1137 •.
C7
THANKS YOUR 516. DURING SRSG'S VISIT ONLY
DESIRABILITY OF AVLONA LOCAL ARRANGEMENT WAS DISCUSSED
~JD NOT FORMULA FOR AREAS BETWEEN FDL'S IN GENERAL+ ENDALL+
COL 1137 516 ++
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SY-02 SSS NI COS I A 98 19 06292•
ETATPRlORlTE
UNATIOtiS
NEWYORK•
U'-JF I CYP 1132
CODE CABLE _______ ............,....._.
TO: GUYER
FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR/PREM CHAND
DATE: 19 JULY 1976
NUMBER: UNF l.CYP 1132
YOUR 510.
1. THERE HAVE BEEN NO DEVELOPMENTS SINCE LEDRA MEETING
ON HUMANITARIAN PROBLEMS OF 27 MAY WHEN PAPADOPOULOS
AND ONAN DISCUSSED MISSING PERSONS ISSUE AT SOME LENGTH.
OOAN, AFTER DECLARING THAT NO MISSHJG PERSONS ~:ERE BEING
c{EPT BY HIS SI DE, UNDERTOOK TO REV l E~t NUMBER OF FI LES
\JHCH HA1D BEEN BROUGHT UP TO DATE BY ICRC TRACING AGENCY.
2. MISSING PERSONS ISSUE WILL NO DOUBT BE RAISED AGAlN
AT NEXT HUMANITARIAN MEETING, WHICH SRSG HOPES TO CONVENE
IN COM I ~G DAYS+
COL 19 1976 1132 510 1 2 ++
C-J I _,.J
Er ATP~ I OR I TE
UNATIONS.
NEWYORK•
WFICYP 1131
TO:
FROM:
DATE:
NUMBER:
\ CODE CABLE
--------.....-GUYER
PEREZ DE CUELLAR
19 JULY 1976
UNFICYP 1131 ..
REFERENCE NO 120 FROM AHKOMNfPRESS.
M:--?f h
WHILE DURING ANKARA AND ATHENS VISITS GREAT CARE WAS
TAKEN, WITH SOME SUCCESS, TO AVOID BEING MISQUOTED BY
PRESS, CUNHURIYET REPORT TO EFFECT THAT I CONSIDERED
ACTIVATION OF MlXED COMMITTEES WITH PARTICIPATION OF
GREEK AND TURKISH REPRESENTATIVES AS AGREED IN BRUSSELS,
Jt..ONG WITH BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS, AS PREREQUISITE FOR
FINDING SOLUTION, lS OF COURSE TOTALLY UNTRUE: NO
SUCH THING WAS EVER SAID BY ME NOR DID I STATE, AKS ALLEGED
BY MIL.LIYET, THAT l WAS LEAVING ANKARA MORE OPTIMISTIC,
i-OPIUG TO FINO B~ ATHENS SAME ATMOSPHERE OF UNDERSTANDING,
SINCERITY AND WiLLINGESS TO HESUME NEGOTIATIONS. ENDALL+
OOL 19 1976 1131 120 WILLINGNESS TO •••• ++
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UNATIONS
NEWYORK :
TO: GUYER
COOE CAB...E
FRG'J:
DATE:
PREM CHA ND/ GCR t'.E
17 Jtn.. Y 1976
NUMBER: UNFICYP 1126.
1. RESULTS OF MORNING 17 JULY MEETINGS WITH VENIAMIN <I AND
SORCE> AND TURKISH EMBASSY (GCH (E) AS FOLL0/1S:
AAA. VENIAMIN WAS MUCH CONCERNED AND SAID THAT MUCH DAMAGE
HAD ALREADY OCCURRED TO CROPS IN AFFECTED AREAS AND THIS WAS
ON INCREA 9: DAILY. WE: ASSURED HIM THAT TRENDS AT ANKARA HAD
E£EN HELPFUL AND THAT WE WERE HOPING FOR PRO<JlESS AT MEETING
ON MONDAY 19I'H. HE EXPRESSED CONSIDERABLE DOUBTS ABOUT ANY
RESULTS THAT DAY AND STATED THAT IN EVENT OF ANY FURTHER DELAY
UNFICYP SHOl.LD RESTORE STATUS QUO WITH FORCE, IF NECESSARY.
WE EXPLAINED TO HIM THAT OUR FIRST TASK IS TO MAINTAIN QUOTE
MILITARY STATUS QUO UNQUOTE AND TO PREVENT CONFLICT IN AREA
Ar.If\ TUAT TUC"Ol:'ll"l\t)C'_ ANY lf~Ji' Oii J.'ORr.Ji' L
~i;~f--~-
,·~-~ ·"·-·cctciiiIT bIFFICUl.T IF' THERE WERE NO RESUl.. TS ON 19
JIJ.. Y.
BBB. TURKISH EMBASSY OFFICIALS NOTED OUR REQUEST, ESPECIALLY
WITH REGARD TO CENTRAL NEED FOR CONSERVATION OF CROPS PENDING
SOL UT ION OF PROELEM. THEY ARE CONTACT I MG BARUT CU AID I NHAM,
t#1ffi AR£ IN KARPAS1 ON URGENT BASIS.
2. WE FEEL THAT WE SHOULD NO.,, CONSIDER OPTIONS OPEN TO US AS
CONTIN<ENCY PLANNING, SHOULD LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS NOT MATERIALIZE:
AAA. COURSE A -TO RE•ESTAELISH FARMING STATUS QUO IN THESE
AREAS ON a:?OUNDS THAT RESTRICTIONS WERE MEANT TO BE IMPOSED
FOR OHL Y THREE TO FOUR DAYS AND AS SO PIUCH TIME HAS NOW GONE
BY AND IN VIEW OF DAMA<E DONE, WE REVERT TO STATUS QUO ANTE
ALLONING FARMING, ON A STRICTLY-CONTROLLED BASIS• UP TO WITHIN
500 METRES OF TURKISH FDLS. THIS COULD LEAD TO TURKISH REACTION.
BBB. ALTERNATIVELY, WE: PRESS HERE AND AT ANKARA AT HIGHEST
LEVEL THAT SI' ATUS QUO SHOULD BE REST CRED PEND I NG LOCAL ARRANGE•
NENTS SO AS Nor TO ALLON AffiICUlTURAL. PRODUCE TO GO TO WASTE.
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3. WE WOULD ALSO APPRECIATE YOUR CIJIDANCE ON POLICY MATTER WITH
REFERENCE TO FIRST SENTENCE OF PARAGRAPH I OF YOUR NO. 471.
THIS DIFFERS FRCPJ APPROACH WE HAVE, IN FACT, ADOPTED SINCE
CLOSING MONTHS OF 1974t THAT IS AS PER PARAmAPHS 3 CA) AND CB)
OF OUR 1099, TAKING STAND THAT THIS IS QUOTE AD HOC DE FACTO
UN CONTRa..LED AREA UNQUOTE AND UNFICYP MANDATE COVERS NORMAL•
lZATION, HUMANITARIAN AND ECONCPJIC TASKS TO ASSIST LOCAL
POPULATION. QUOfE LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH BOTH SlOES UNQUOTE
J·!AS. C°'1E.UP FOR .. FIRST ,.TIME_I N __ THIS __ PARTI CULAR _SITUATION OWING ·- _ ~
TO TURKISH CYPRIOTS WISH TO CULTIVATE LAND ACROSS THEIR FDLS.
IF WE HAD TO NEGOf IATE EACH CASE OF FARMING BETWEEN FDLS
WITH BOTH SIDES, W£ WOULD EVIDENTLY RUN INTO SERIOUS DIFFICULTIES
AT EVERY STAGE. ENDAL.L :
CODE CABLE.
TO : SECRET ARY-GENERAL
FR(ltl: PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATED 16 JULY 1976.
UNNUMBERED
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AAA. CAG..AYANGIL CONFIDED FOLLOWING TO ME:
J) DEMIREL IS NOI' PREPARED EITHER TO PROVOKE OR RISK GOVERNMENT
CRISIS OJER CYPRUS PROBLEM. CUR££NT COALITION CAN ONLY SURVIVE
UNTIL 1977 ELECTIONS <AUTUMN> IF PROffiAM ON CYPRUS AGREED BY ALL
COALITION PARTNERS IS STRICTLY ADHERED TO. FOR THIS REASON
TERRITORIAL QUESTION CANNOT BE DISCUSSED IN SUBSTANCE AND MEANINGFULLY
AT SIXTH ROUND, OI'HERWISE CABINET MUST BE INFORMED, WHERE
ERPAKAN •s INTRANS! GANCE CANNOT BE CAIERCOME. SAME DOES NOT
APPLY TO MIXED COMMITTEE LEVEL, WHERE DISCUSSION WOOLD NOT ONLY
EE SECRET BUT ALSO AD REFERENDUM.
2. BITSIOS, CA<l.AYANGIL SAYS, IS AWARE OF ABOVE, BUT DOES NOT
HELP SINCE ~EECE AND mEEK LOBBY CONTINUE TO ffARRASS TUEK£Y
IN INTERNATIONAL FORA AND US CON<J?ESS. BITSIOS BEING DISAPPOINTING•
TK GOIERNMENT • COUNTS ON KARAMANLIS STATESMANSHIP: UNFORTUNATELY
LATTER IS SURROUNDED BY .. NEGATIVE , ANTI-TURKISH ELEMENTS•••
\ 13• IN V 1£\rl OF DIFFICULTY TO Fl ND SCENARIO FOR SIXTH ROUND,
\ J CAQ.AYANGil. WONDERS WHETHER PRELI.~HNARY M££TINGS COULD BE-1U!LJi>~%-\I "(J V _EETWEEN INTERLOCUTORS WITH MY PARTICIPATION, AI~:::, ~T PRE_~A~~~
f SCENARIO FOR TALKS UNDER YOUR AUSPICES.
BBB. ALTHOUGH TENSION IS MOUNTING OVER AGEAN, NO REFERENCES
WHATSOEVER WAS MADE TO IT BY MY ANKARA INTERLOCUTORS. THEY
RATHER IMPLIED THAT CYPRUS WAS KEY ISSUE OF <flECO/TURKISR
CONTENTIEUX, WHICH OUGHT TO BE SETTLED WITH ATHENS"
ACTIVE HELP•
CCC. TK OFFICIALS, INCLUDING CACLAYANGIL, REPEATEDLY STRESSED
THAT DENKTASH, ESPECIALLY SINCE SUCCESFUL ELECTIONS, IS SELF•
CONFIDENT, D£TERMI NED AND MCRE DI P'FI CULT TO CONTROL. THIS MAY
HAVE BEEU SAID TO PREPARE ALIBI FOR ANKARA SHOULD DENKTASH DECLARE
-u~ o. 1. ,·wHicH _iiE_Miv--·si· 1EiPTm -fo-no 1r AEGEAN cRisxs " --"REACHED PEAK.:
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FRa-1: PEREZ DE CUELLAR
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t. BITSIOS STRESSED THAT <REECE WAS IN MIDDLE OF CRISIS WITH
TURKEY OJER AEGEAN AND THAT CAB! NET HAD MET WHOLE MOR NI NG
16 Jll.Y. TURKEY HAVING ANNOUNCED THAT SEISMIC ON£ SHIP CHORA}
WOULD SAIL INTO DISPUTED WATERS IN AUGJST, <JiEKNE WAS FACING
CAPITlLATION CR CASUS BELLI. IF EITHER HAPPENED, CYPRUS TALXS
WERE DOCMED1 EVEN IN MOST UNLIKELY EVENT OF CAPITULATION,
GREECE WOULD NOT WANT TO FACE SECOND CAPITULATION IN CYPRUS.
2. IN VIEW A BOJE t BITSIOS WAS IN SCEPTICAL 14000 CONCERNING TUEKEY•s "'~- ·- . ,..._, • ; ,. ~ ... -- ~· • ·- ., -- ., ' ~*' --· -~-
PR OF£ SSED WILLINGNESS TO FACILITATE RESUMPTION OF TALKS UNDER
YOUR AUSPICES ( 19 BOUNDARIES ARE NEGOFIABLE., • ••NEIGKER
GREEK NOR TURKISH EXPERTS NEED ATTEND TERRITORIAL COMMISSION''>.
3. QUITE CLEARLY• (Jf£ECE IS UNWILLING TO DEPART FROM MAKARIOS•
POSITION ON TALKS (AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE PRIOR TO MIXED COMMITTEES>,
THE MORE SO SINCE ATHENS DOES NOT ACCEPT AS VALID tK ARQJMENTS
FOR QUICK ESTAa.ISMMENT OF MIXED COMMITTEES.
4. TURKEY IS WRONG, BITSIOS SAYS, IF SHE BELIEVES THAT MAKARIOS
CAN BE CONTRCl.LED BY KARAMANLIS. MCRECNER, <REECE IS NOT PREPARED
TO lET ENTANQ.ED IN CYPRUS DISPUTE.
5. BITSIOS IS CERTAIN THAT MAKARIOS WILL BE UNWILLING TO CHANGE
HIS STAND ON ••AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE PRIOR TO MIXED COMMITTEEs••,
NOR DOES HE EXPECT ANKARA TO Ma..LIFY ITS OWN POSITION ON TH~S 1
__ _
r. POINT. BITSIOS THEREFORE CONSIDERS PROSPECTS FOR 6TH ROUND POOR.:
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NewvoRK. :
CODE CABLE .
Toa GUYER
FROM: PREM CHAND.
DATE: 17 JULY 1976
NUMBER1 1119
, REFERENCE YOUR MEMORANDUM 7 JULY ON EFFICIENCY REPORTS
ON'MERDIC OFFICERS. PRESUME QUOTE SENIOR STA~F POSITIONS UNQUOTE
REFERS TO OFFICERS OF THE ~ANK OF LIEUTENANT COLONELS IN COMMAND
~D STAFF. REQUEST CONFIRMATIONS. ENDALL
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TO: GUYER
FROM: PREM CHAND/ GORGE .. ~ DATE: 17 JULY 1976
1klMBER: UNFICYP 1121.
MANY THANKS FOR YOUR 509 AND ACTION TAKEN. HOWEVER, WE SHALL
NEED TO GO FURTHER ON ASSISTANCE BY UNFICYP. DETAILED RE
CONNAtSSANCE YESTERDAY EVENING OF FIELDS INVOLVED AND DISCUSSIONS . WITH LOCAL FARMERS ON FARM ASSISTANCE REQUIRED INDICATE THAT
THIS WOULD ONLY BE FEASIBLE IF WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY A FEW
FARMERS FOR EACH FIELD. THIS WILL BE NECESSARY FOR TECHNICAL
~40W-HOW WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO PUMPS AND CONNECTED
EQUIPMENT. APPRECIATE IF THIS IS CONVEYED TO TURKISH PERMREP
AS WAS DONE TO TURK I SH EMBASSY BY GORGE 17 J.UL Y. WE CAN EXE RC I SE
STRICT CONTROL ON NUMBERS, AREAS AND TIMINGS. IF THIS IS NOT
POSSIBLE THERE COULD BE DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT AND CROPS; DOtNG
f"ORE HARM THAN GOOD• LOCAL FARMERS FEEL STRONGLY ON THIS POINT.
ENDALL 11
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TO : SECRETARY-GENERAL \
F'ROMt . PEREZ DE CUELLAR
. DATED 16 JULY 1976
·fMMEDIATE NUMBER: UNFICYP~1118 ______ .......... __ _
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'lGN.f\HNISTER BITSIOS NOON 16 JULY, WHO WAS AS.Si$
BY ATAVROPOULOS AND DIRECTOR, CYRPUS/TK DESK NOMICOS. GOijGE
WAS W 1TH ME. WORK I NG LUNCHEON FOLLO\t✓ED MEET I NG.
~' AT OUTSET, l CONVEYED GIST OF ANKARA TALKS. THEREAFTER,
ilTSIOS MADE FOLt.OWlNG KEY POINTS.
. I I I !
D) MAPS MAY,~·/ SUBMITTED AT 6TH ROUND, BUT ONLY IF BY BOTH
SI DES AND S t';~U~ TANEOUSL Y.
E) GREECE HAS NO VIEWS ON VENUE AND DATE, THESE
POINTS.
BEING TECHNICAL .... , /t:·- ·: ',,.\ ,,-,,:• __ \,,. ' ..,,.,:,.' ;
' :·,; .. ' ,-,/(::}:\
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F) BITSIOS EXPLAINED TO CAGLAYANGIL LAST MONTH IN OSLO, WHY GREEK
EXPERT CANNOT ATTEND TERRITORIAL MIXED COMMITTEE: IF EXPERT SIDES
WITH TURKEY, ATHEMSAliD.tH~SA,.,,~,4li~~
TURKEY MAY coNSIDER coMMITTEE's woRK As HOPELESS. TAKING ABOVE INTO ACCOUNT, AGREES THAT TERRITORIAL COMMITTEE MAY
MEET WITHOUT ANY EXPERT, NEITHER GREEK NOR TURKISH. WHILE BITSIOS
SEES NO OBJECTION TO HAVING GREEK EXPERT IN CONSTITUTIONAL
COMMITTEES, HE POINTS OUT THAT
REFUSAL TO HAVE GREEK EXPERT ATTEND TERRITORIAL COMMITTEE IS NOT
WCONS I STENT \v I TH BRUSSELS PROCEL-VERBAL, WHICH SPEAKS OF
''EN CAS DE BESOIN''•
. , ~;~i,i '~•}:'t*:~:i1:r~~L> ;•:, ,;, , ·•-··.·, ,..... ·. . G) BI TS I OS D t SAGREES WI TH CAGLA'YAtU;tt'· THA'T SICl1E1!'T
KEPT IN MIXED COMMITTEES•· ON CONTRARY, SE'CRECY CAN BE ENSURED
TO MUCH HIGHER DEGREE AWAY FROM CYPRUS. ALL CAGLAYANGIL WANTS
TO ACHIEVE WITH Hts "SECRECY" ARGUMENT, BfTSIOS SAYS, .
IS TO DIMINISH UN ROLE AND TO COUNTER ''INTERNATIONALIZATION''
ADVOCATED BY MAKARIOS.
H) BRUSSELS PROCES-VERBAL WAS DESIGNED TO PAVE WAY FOR FIFTH
ROUND
REPRESENTED AT VIENNA AND NOT
3. MEETINGS WITH MAKARIOS AND DENKTASH SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY
.. 8) JULY. WI LL CAB.LE MY OVERALL EVALUATION THEREAFTER.•
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TO GUYER, FRCM PEREZ ~tl£1.LAR. DATED 16 JULY 1976.
HEREUNDER EXCE~CIJ MINISTER CAQ.AYANGILS DINNER SPEECH
OF 14 JULY:
QUOTE:
COMME VOUS ETES DEJA AU COURANT DE VOTRE EXPERIENCE A CHYPRE,
LA CCti1MUNAUTE TURQUE CHYPRIOTE ET LA TURQUIE RESTENT TOUJOURS
ATTACHES AU PRINCIPE DE RESOUDRE LES PROBl.EMES PAR VOIE DE
NEGOCIATIONS. NOUS L •AVONS ETE, NOUS LE SOMMES ET NOUS LE
SERrnvT TOUJOURS. C 'EST UN PRINCIPE QUI ANIME NOTRE POLITIQUE
ET RAN G:RE DEPUIS LA CREATION DE LA REPUBLI QUE TURQUE.
MALGRE TOUTES LES PRCWOCATIONS, LA TURQUIE A FAIT PREUVE DE
PATIENCE ET N'A TACHE DE RESOUDRE CE PROBLEM£ QUE PAR DES VOIES
PACIFIQUES. MAIS SA PATIENCE A ETE MALHEUREUSEMENT MALINTERPRETE
PAR DES MILIEUX QUI ONT VOULU CREER UN FAIT ACCOMPLE A CHYPRE
Er; ESSA YENT D 'ANNEXER L •ILE A LA GlECE. DES LORS LE PROBLEM£
EST DEVENU, C(XtJME JE L•At INDIQUE, ?LUS COMPLIQUE. IL N•Y A
PAS DE DOUTE QUE S 'IL Y A UNE CHANCE A RESOUDRE CE PROBLEME,
CELA NE PEUT ETRE PROl'EtE QUE SI LES PARTIES INTERESSEES,
AU LIEU D'EXPLOITER LES INSTANCES INTERNATIONALES PAR DES MOTIFS
, 1 PCLI!IQUES SE REUNISSENT DIRECTEMENT ET AVEC SI NCERITE AUTOUR DE I
LA TA!l.E DE NEGOCIATIONS. L •ACCORD DE BRUXELLES QUE J•AI
MOI-NEME SIGNE AVEC MON COLLE WE ffiEC ET AUQUEL L •ADMINISTRATION
GRECQUE CHYPRIO!E AVAIT DONNE SON CONSENTEMENT, N•ETAIT ... ... ...... tT9 ....
DE RESOUDRE LE PROaEME DE CHYPRE. c•cEST POURQUOI TOUSLES EFFORTS,
CEUX DES PARTIES D!a_ JTEMENT I~TERESSEES ET CEU )ES PAYS QUI
VEtl.ENT QUE L •1tE RESTE EN ETA! DE PAIX DOIVENT ETRE DlRIGES
VERS L•OBJECTIF QUI POURAIT ASSURER LA CONTINUATION DES POURPARLERS
IN!ERCOMMUNAUTAIRES. c·Esr A CE MOMENT LA gu•oN PEUT ESPERER
QUE LES DEUX C(ll'.IMUNAtrrES NATIONALES SE RENDRONT COMPTE QUE LEUR
SEIJ.. INTERET NE RESIDE QUE DANS LA TABLE DE NEGOCIATIONS.
SI UNE PARTIE AU CONFLIT DESIRE PERPETUER CE CONFLIT IL
NE RESTE AUCUN MOYEN A L •AutRE D •ARRIVER A UNE SOLUTION.
IL FAUT DONC TOUT FAIRE POUR QUE LES DEUX COMMUNAUTES s•ENTENDENT
ET QUE PERSONNE NE CREE UN OBSTACLE A CETTE ENTENTE. L•ACCORD
DE BRWCELLES AVA IT DEJA ETABLI UNE CHANCE D •ARRIVER A UNE TELLE
ENTENTE. CET ACCORD A ETE EN PARTIE APPLIQUE. IL FAUT MAINTENANT
INAUGURER LA DERNIERE PHA!:£ DE CET ACCORD QUI, SI
MHH!fIEUSEMENT RESPECT£, POURRAIT NOOS AMENER A UNE SOLUTION
n•ENSEMB..E.
~ LORSQUE NOUS AVONS CONCLU L 9ACCORD DE BRUXELLES, NOUS AVONS
PRIS EN CONSIDERATION !OUTES LES DlFFICUl.TES QUI EXISTENT ACTUELLE~ENT
DANS TOUSLES PAYS DIRECTEMENT INTERESSES. DE CE POINT DE VUE
NOUS £STIMONS QUE L•AcCORD DE BRUXELLES CONSTITUE LA SEULE
CHANCE QUI SE PRESENT'£ DEPUIS 1974 POUR RESOUDRE LE PROBLEME DE
CHYPRE. DANS LE CADRE DE CET ACCORD, IL Y A BIEN SUR UNE AUTRE
TACHE QUI INCCll1BE AU SECRETAIRE GENERAL DES NATIONS UNIES ET
A V OUS-MEME, EXCELLENCE, EN TANT QUE SON REPRESENT ANT SPECIAL.,,.
NOUS NE V OYONS AUCUN INCONVENIENT A CE QUE LES POURPARLERS
INTERCOMMUNAUTAIR£S REPRENNENT SOUS L •AUSPICE DU SECRETAIRE
GENERAL ET QUE LA DEUXIEME PHASE DE L •ACCORD DE BRUXELLES
SOIT ENTAMEE.
v ous P OWEZ .. RE SIER A SSURE_,QUE.J~A. JURQUl E -APruX.ERA _T_OUJOU8S ______ _
LE PROCESSUS DES POURPARLERS INTERCCNMUNAUTAIRES ET NE MANQUERA
PAS D •ENCOURA <ER LA COMM UNA UTE TUR QUE CHYPRI OTE DANS CE SENS.
NOUS ESPERONS QUE CES POURPARLERS INTERCOMMUNAUTAIRES ABOUTIRONT
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16 10472•
TO : SECRETARY-GENERAL
FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATED 16 JULY 1976
IMMEDIATE NUMBER: UNFICYP 1116
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AAA. IN ANKARA, ON JULY 14, HAD FIRST TWO HOUR MEETING WITH
N4BASSADOR BARUTCU, HEAD OF CYPRUS AND GREECE DESK, AND HIS DEPUTY,
GUVEND I REU, AND THEN OV_ER ONE HOUR WI TH FOREIGN MIN I STER,
ASS I TKES I STED BY SECRETARY-GENERAL ELEKDAG., DI RECTOR POL IT I CAL AFFAf', · '· TEZEL AND BARATCU. GORGE WAS PRESENT AT BOTH MEETINGS.
CONVERSATIONS WHICH WERE VERY FRANK AND FRIENDLY CONTINUED AT
DINNER OFFERED BY CAGLAYANGIL.
' . ' . '
,hJF \COMMUN1 TI ES ARE LEFT TO NEGOTIATE ALONE. JffflE •• ,,•a"' • • • • . + '• :,i •
M HOPE To NARRow·1·Ex tsTING GAP:{ tf ;,;;~"·~"Y ·ruRKIY:
- . . .
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CE MUST EXERT PRESS~RE ON TH,EM.
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ltlAT HEART OF TERRITORIAL QUESTION, INCLUDING s'tiBMISS ON OF Mi.
CAN ONLY BE DISCUSSED jN MIXED COMMITTEE, ENVISAGED BY BRUSSELS
PROCES-VERBAL AND VIENNA FIVE. DISCUSSION AT SIXTH ROUND MUST'
THEREFORE REMAIN GENERAL AND COVER, IN ESSENCE, CRf:TE.l;l: ' · ' ) ' · -rt<:· ~
" . . - ' ; - ·_. " . ,··. ·., -· ,_ : •. ~ ' ,, - f 0. ·•,. '.
PRINCIPLES. "COMMON BASIS•' REF'E~l,'TO'itl.tfJ . . ' .. -.-·· . -:·/~;·?~--·•::.· ··'·,"·''·.•i)<t<'-
AMOUNT TO "AGREEMENT t N PR I NC I P'LE'' OR ,. GENERAL FARMEWOR
CF ~GREEMENT''• BOTH TERRITORIAL AND CONSTtTUTIONAL ASPECTS
~OULD QUICKLY BE REFERRED TO RESPECTIVE MIXED COMMITTEES WITH r
VIE\\/ TO REACHING "PACKAGE DEAL"•t; SERIOUS, CONSTRUCTIVE
NEGOTIATliNS ARE ONLY POSSIBLE AT COMMITTEE LEVEL (THIS POINT ~
BEING MlDE OVER AND OVEH AGA~). CONT~ARY TO UNFICYP 985,
PARA 1 (A) AND UNFICYP 1007 PARA (B) GRCYP REPRESENTATIVE AT
SlXTW ROUND NEED NOT EXPLICITLY COMMIT HIMSELF TO B.l-i0f4 •• • •,: > • ,; ,, ,;: •
~,}, ? •
. , ,,r.
TK MA INLAND EXPERT Wt LL KEEP AWAY TO(),· BUT COMMITTEE CAN
NEVERTHELESS MEET. IT IS ANKARA'S UNDERSTANDING THAT GREECE
MAY SEND EXPERT TO CONSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEE, TURKEY WILL DO
LIKEWISE. IN THIS CONTEXT, CAGLAYANGJL CONFIRMED WHAT HE TOLD
YOU IN REPLY TO YOUR MESSAGE OF 26 JANUARY 1916, NAMELB WHAT
IOSUPERVISE WORK OF COMMITTEES AND THAT LVSlJLTS OS DELIBERATIONS
BE REVIEWED AT FURTHER ROUND UNDER YOUR AUSPlCES,.
5. FOR WHAT ANKARA CONSIDERS FUNDAMENTAL REASONS, NEW YORK ,,
IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AS VEUE FOR SIXTH ROUND• VIENNA GS PROPOSEDGN
REGRETTING INCONVENIENCE CAUSED TO YOU. ANY DATE IN AUGUST
IS SUITABLE TO TK SIDE.
6. GENERALLY, TURKISH OFFICIALS LEAN HEAVILY ON BRUSSELS
PROCES-VERBAL AND CONSIDER FIFTH ROUND AS FIRST PHASE OF ITS
'" I J
¥ 1¥G&MJSL 4, - 4i!,F
(S/1;20:)3., MJNEX A) A'.3 NEBULOUS, VAGUE AND l..ESS THAN HELPFUL,
11 .. cor~s I STENT '1/ I TH LETTEli MJD SPIRIT OF BRUSSELS PR~ES-VERBAL.
CAGL,\ Y/JJG IL FULLY A EEi; THAT BOTH SI DES SHOULD
F11m1 M/\KING DAMA.GING STATEMENTS, UNDERMINING NEG01"1ATING PROCESS. IN THIS CONTEXT, DENKTASH'S RECENT WARNING ON VAROSHA AND
At½CHB I SHOF '~ ''l.0;-,JG STiWGGLE.'' SPEECHES \:JfJ<[ MDH I ONED.
DDD. :,.✓ 1TH HEFERENCE TO Ai'HWi'1NIPtiESS NR.115 OF 15 .JULY, IT
IS G01rnECT Td1\T CM,llJ\ YANG IL RE/\FF I i·lMED TO ME THAT '' BOUNDAf\ I t.S
t.STJ\BL I li~G TUEK I SH AND GREEK FEDERAL STATES AHE NEGOTIABLE".
LOCAL AD rlOG MWANGb1ENT. DAiWTCU hi I LL PEH S011i ALL y tXTEr,rn AS;; I ST Ai-JGE
Ul SPOT, ALSO CONCERNING HAPID IMPLEMENTATION OF PHECES-VERBAL
a~ UNFICYP ROLE IN NORTH= RESISTAN TO HAVING UNFICYP HETAlk
OBST.t.CLES TO H/\V I NG UN USE NI COS Ii\ 1\ I RPOFff ST I LL r~UlA IN.
FFF. PLE;\SE FIND IN UifflCYP 1117 EXCERPTS FfWril CAGL1\Yf.JJGIL'§_ C,
DINlJEr; ;,;PEECH ON 11~ JULY, GIVEN IN PHESENCE OF AMBAf;S/HJCH~~)
FROM UNFICYP TKOOP CONTRIBUTING COUNTRIES.•
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2). RESUMPTION OF TALKS UNDER YOU AUSPICES IS FAVOURFn_
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UNFICYP 1115
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TO GUYER
FROM PREM CHAND
DATE 16 JULY 1976
NUMBER UNFICYP 1115
REFERENCE YOUR 500 AND 503.
1. FC AND COS HAD ANOTHER MEETING WITH VENIAMIN 15 JUL AND
LJ1 '-J'.)
HE AGRE~D TO TAKE ADDITIONAL MeASURES TO EXERCISE RESTRAINT ON
VILLAGERS DIRECTLY AFFECTED.
·2. WE HAD HOPED MATTER MIGHT BE SETTLED AT ANKARA BY 17 JUL.
WT NOW IT APPEARS THAT WE COUlD LOSE ANOTHER 3 DAYS AT LEAST.
AS NEXT MEETING IS ON 19TH AND DISCUSSIONS COULD WELL CONTINUE
EVEN LATER. FOLLOWING TELEPHOfiE CONVERSATION WITH GORGE THIS
K.>RNING, AND FURTHER TO YOUR 503, WE MADE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIONS
TO TURKISH EMBASSY LATER THIS MORNING FOR EMERGENCY WATERING AND
HARVESTING ACTIVITY SEMICLN THIS ARRANGEMENT WAS REFUSED ON
GROUNDS THAT THEY COULD NOT ACCEPT ANY RESUMPTION OF ACTIVITIES
lN AVLONA AREA BEFORE MEETING ON 19 JUL • •
•
3. WE HAVE ALREADY CONSIDERED ASSISTING WITH ESSENTIAL AGRICUL
TURAL REQUIREMENTS BY USING.UNFICYP PERSONNELt AND VENIAMIN
WELCOMED THIS SUGGESTION. HOWEVER, RESPONSE TO THIS AS WELLt
HAS BEEN NEGATIVE BY TURKISH SIDE.
4. AREA AFFECTED IS NOT IN VICINITY OF KATO KOPIA AS OUR
ESCORTING ACTIVITIES THERE ARE FUNCTIONING NORMALLY IN SPITE OF
PROTESTS. MAIN PROBLEMS ARE NORTH EAST OF PERISTERONA (GR WD
0787) - lN GENERAL AREA BOUNDED BY GR WD 0892. 1292, 0889
AND· 1289.
5. WE SHALL NOW AWAIT MEETING ON 1.9 JUL TO AVOID ANY INCIDENTS
WilCH MIGHT PREJUDICE OUTCOME OF DISCUSSIONS ALREADY HELD AT
ANKARA. OUR LATEST REPORTS ARE THAT LARGE QUANTiTIES OF AGRI
CULTURAL PRODUCE IN THIS AREA WILL ne LOST IF ESSENTIAL IRRIGATION
AND HARVESTING ts NOT RESUMED VERY SHORTLY. THEREFORE, IF THERE
IS NO SPECIFIC AGREEMENT ON THE 19TH, WE FEEL WE MUST INSIST
00 REVERTING TO FARMING STATUS QUO, IN THESE AREAS, WITH EFFECT
FROM 20 JUL.
6. GORGE WILL RETURN TO NICOSIA TONIGHT AND WE WILL REVIEW
SITUATION FOLLOWING CONSULTATIONS WITH HIM+
OOL 16 1976 1115 500 503 1 FC COS 15 2 17 3 19 503 19 3
4 GR WD 0787 GR WD 0892 1292 0889 1289 5 19 19'20 +
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UNATIONS
NEWYORK•UNFICYP 1099
TO:
FROM:
DATE:
NUf·1BER:
CODE CABLE
GUYER NEWYORK.
PREM CHAND
13 JULY 1976
UNFlCYP 1099
1. REFERENCE YOUR 493 AND CONNECTED CABLES.
w
WDER PRESSURE OF EVENTS AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF A SERIOUS INCi
.DENT, INDICATED BY TURKISH ATTITUDE, WE HAD TO ACCEPT
TURKISH EMBASSY'S INTERPRETATION OF TELEPHONE CONVERSA~•
TIONS ON AVLONA. THIS LED TO ADDITIONAL
RESTRICTIONS BEING PLACED ON FARMING BY GREEK CYPRIOTS OVER
AN AREA AMOUNTING TO SOME NINE SQUARE KILOMETERS SINCE
9 JULY. IT WAS THE NEED TO CLEAR UP THIS UNFORTUNATE
SITUATtON AT A TIME WHEN A SERIOUS INCIDENT SEEMED LIKELY THAT RESULTED IN OuR REQUEST FOR GORGE'S RETURN. AS
SITUATION IS NOW MORE STABILISED. SUGGEST GORGE NEED
NOT RETURN DIRECTLY FROM ANKARA UNLESS TREMD OF DISCUSSIONS
TriERE MAKES TH IS NECESSARY. .,
.. ...- ... www:www• •
2. IN RltSOLVlt._ IMMEDIATE PROBLEM YOU WIL ... APPRECIATE
TIME FACTO~ IS PARTICULARLY SIGNIFICANT AS FARMING AND
WATERING REQUIREMENTS ARE ESSENTIAL DAILY NEEDS AT THIS
TIME OF YEAR IF HARVESTS AND ORCHARDS IN AREAS BETWEEN FDLS ARE Tf) BE SAVED.
""""' . , E. A SUMMARY OF THE MORE IMPORTANT FACTORS AFFECTING
THE SITUATION, WHIC~ MIGHT BE HELPFUL DURING DISCUSSIONS
AT ANKARA, IS AS FOLLOWS:
{A) THE AREA BETWEEN FLDS, BEING AD HOC DE FACTO
t.N-CONTROLlt.ED AREA, FULL CO-OPERAT 1 ON SHOULD BE EXTENDED
TO UNFICYP IN ITS HUMANITARIAN ACTIVI.TIES THERE, AS PER
SEC~ETARY-i;ENERAL' S OBSERVATIONS IN LATEST REPORT.
WE NOTE lN YOUR 471 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT ••TURKISH SIDE HAS 1 ♦ WITHIN ITS POWER TO PREVENT GREEK CYPRIOTS FROM CULTll,ATING LAND, EVEN UNDER UNFICYP ESCORT''•
tK>Wl:VER, WlE BEL I EVE ENCOURAGING RE SUL TS OF UNF l CYP' S
HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITlES OVER PAST 18 MONTHS SHOULD NOT
BE PERM I TTt£D TO BE ERODED BY THREATS OF USE OF FORCE.
IN SOME CA!SES WHEN UNF I CYP WAS PURSUING ACTIVITIES IN RESPECT
CF GREEK C'(PRIOTS, TURKISH SIDE MADE IT CLEAR IN STATING
THEIR OBJE(;T IONS THAT IT WAS CONTRARY TC THEIR POL I CY TO
PERMIT TURttl SH CYPRIOT CI V l LI ANS INTO AREA BETWEEN FDLS.
IN SP I TE Ofl' TH IS, HOWEVER, UNF I CYP HAS CONT I NUED TO
PROVIDE FUL.L HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO TURKISH CYPRIOTS IN AREAS OF LOUROUJINA, PYLA AND KOKKINA.
(B) STAtus QUO AFFECTING AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE MAINTAINED, IN ACCORDANCE WITH PAST PRACTICE, IN EFFECT SINCE THE AUTUMM OF 1974,
ESPECIALLY AS THlS HAS BEEN ARRIVED AT AS A RESULT OF NUME
ROUS LOCAL AGREEMENTS WITH TURKISH FORCES, BEARING IN
MIND THEIR SECURITY REQUIREMENTS IN EACH CASE. IT IS TRUE
lHAT THERE HAVE BEEN PROTESTS BY TURKISH FORCES IN CERTAIN
I.
> -- • .. ~~~••~•- ... ~-~-"~ ......... -~,-- ..... -..-- w,O• • --••~•-·~•'-•' 9,
AREAS. BUT THESE HAVE MAINLY BEEN WITH REGARD TO SECURITY CF THEIR.FDtS AND APART FROM MEETING THEIR REQUIREMENTS IN EACH CASE• THEY HAVE BENEFITTED THROUGH SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO THEIR FDLS.
(C} TURKISH FORCES HAVE ALSO BEEN SUGGESTING 0 CF THAT AREAS BETWEEN
TWEEN FDLS SHOULD ,HAVE NO CIVILIAN ACTIVITIES AND
THAT IT SHOULD BE A BARREN BUFFER ZONE, SIMILAR TO ZONE
IN MIDDLE EAST. WE HAVE NEVER ACCEPTED THIS IN VIEW OF
OUR HUMANITARIAN AND NORMALISATION ROLES AND FACT THAT
EXTENSIVE AGRICULTURAL LANDS AND FARMS EXIST IN THESE AREAS.
GREAT DEAL OF EFFORT HAS BEEN PUT IN BY CONTIGENTS TO ASSIST TOWARDS NORMALISATION, WITHOUT AFFECTING MILITARY SECURITY REQllll REMENl'S OF EI GHER SI DE. TO STEP BACK FROM TH IS WOULD.,
WE rEEL, BE'. ADD I NG YET ANOTHER GRAVE HARDSHIP ON GREEK
CYPRIOT POF1ULATION AFFECTED BY 1974 EVENTS. FURTERMORE,
TH IS APPROJtCH WOULD BE t MPRACT I CAL SINCE THERE ARE SOME
~EEK CYPRIOTS OR TURKISH CYPRIOT VILLAGES ALREADY INHABITED
WITHIN CONP1RONTATION AREA. IF SUCH POLICY WERE RIGIDLY
ENFORCE, THESE VILLAGES WOULD HAVE TO BE EVACUATED,
E.G. PYLA, TROULL I, ATH I ENON MAMMAR I , AND TO A CONSII>ERABLE EXTENT LOUROUJINA. FURTHER, ANY INSISTENCE BY TURKISH SIDE TO CONSIDER THE STATUS OF ENTIRE
AREA BETWEltN FDLS COULD LEAD TO THE ARGUMENT THAT TH t S SHOULD
IN FACT BE BASED ON THE ACTUAL CEASE-FtRE LINES OF 16
AUGUST 197J1-, IN FAIRNESS TO THE OTHER SI DE •.
(D) GENiERALLY, GREEK CYPRIOTS AND TURKISH CY-
PR lt)TS SHOIJLD BE PERM I tTED TO CULT l VATE THEIR LANDS AND
TEND THEIR ORCHARDS CONTIGUOUS TO THEIR CEASE-FIRE LINES.
IN THE CAS1~ OF AVLONA CULTIVATION OF GREEK CYPI IOT LANDS
BY TURKISH CYPRIOTS IS BEING CONSIDERED AS RESULT OF THEIR ~'" ., ... .-.,:,~- .... ~. . "'
HAVING RE-SETTLE.ii THERE RECENTLY• WE SHOUL.u THEREFORE
CONSIDER Tl~IS A LOCAL AD HOC AGREEMENT WITHOUT PREJUDICE
TO RESPECTIVE POLITICAL STANDS AND WITHOUT THIS CONSTITUTING
A PRECEDEN'f. IN RETURN. ALL OTHER AGREEMENTS MADE IN
AREA SHOUL'.b CONT I NUE TO BE RESPECTED AND THE FARM I NG STATUS
QJO MA I NT A I NDED.
{E) FAC'r THAT ,PRIOR TO OPERATIONS IN 1974 AND
INDEED AL St) DUR I NG VERY DEL I CATE PER I OD PR I OR TO MOVE OF .
TURKISH CYfl>RfOTS TO NORTH, UNFICYP WAS ALL ALONG ASSISTING
iHEM WITH rHEIR FARMING AND NORMALISATION REQUIREMENT.
R. IN Cf)NCLUS l ON, WE DEEM IT HIGHLY DES I RABLE TO
PURSUE. IF l~ECESSARY • SE.RI ES OF AD HOC LOCAL ARRAN-
GEMENTS TO RESOLVE THIS AND SIMILAR PROBLEMS IN CONFRONTATION
ARE1A, OTHEl~WISE ANY SINGLE PROBLEM CAN BE MAGNIFIED AND
GENIER AL I SE!b TO EN COMP ASS ALL OF CONFRONT AT I ON AREA AND
RESULTING IMPASSE WOULD HAVE VERY SERIOUS EFFECTS ON SUBSTANT l Al .. PROGRESS ALREADY ACHIEVED BY UNF I CYP 'S
HUMAN IT AR I i,N EFFORTS+
COL:l099 13 1976 1099 1 493 9 2 3 471 18 1974 1974 16
397•"-1974+•►
CORRECTION .... IN PARA CCC SECOND LINE OF THAT AREAS BETWEEN FDLS SHOD
RPT OF THA'I" AREAS BETWEEN FDLS SHOULD ETC ....
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SY17 tss IMMIEDIATE NICOSJA 193 13 16212•
ETATPIRIORlTE•
UHATl'ONS
NEWYORK•
~FICYP 1104
TO:
FROM1
DATE:
NUMBER:
REF OUR 1095.
CODE CABLE
GUYER
PREM CHAND
13JULY 1976
UNFICYP 1104 IMMEDIATE.
1. FURTHER TO PARA 5 OF REF, DENKTASH DID NOT CONTACT US FOR MEETING TODAY AS INDICATEDOY HIM. THIS COULD BE BECAUSE LEADERSHIP WERE NOT YET READY TO DISCUSS DETAILS OF OUR PROPOSAL OR
VORE LI KEL'r THAT THEY REFERRED MATTER TO ANKARA. WE WOULD APPRECIATE EARLIEST INDICATION OF RESULTS OF DISCUSSIONS THERE.
2. CONTINUING RESTRICTIONS ON FARMING ACTIVITY ARE LEADING TO
INCREASED CONCERN AT LOCAL AND HIGHER LEVELS AND WE FEEL THAT
\
IF WE HAVE NO REPLY BY TOMORROW NIGHT WE SHOULD INFORM TURKISH
AUTHORITIES THAT WE INTEND TO LIFT SOME RESTRICTIONS ON FARMERS
WIT~ EFFECT FROM 15 JULY.
WI TH EFFEC1' FROM 15 JULY.
3. APART FPIOM THE APPARENT UNFAIRNESS OF THE SITUATION. YOU WILL Af1PREC I ATE THAT TH IS REFLECTS ADVERSELY ON THC:
EFFECTIVENt!SS AND CREDIBILITY OF TnE FORCE. IT IS INDEED
EXTRAORDINllRY THAT HAV lNG ACCEPTED THE P:~oPot;AL FOri A LOCAL
AGRE:EMENT 1"HE TURi< I SH SI DE NOW APPEAR TO BE DELAY I NG l TS
CON CL US I ON. IT ALSO SEE:MS TO US I NADV t SABLE THAT WE SHOULD
BE ACCEPTING UNILATERAL PRESSURES OF THIS KIND. ESPECIALLY
IN J~ UN COUTROLLED AREA.
4. YOUR EAf~L Y ADV I CE WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED. ENDALL
SY5 SSS .NICOSIA 65 12 1248z:
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UNATlONS
NEWYORK:
TO: GUYER
CODE CABLE
FROM:
DATE:
PREM CHAND
12 JULY 1976
NUMBE: UNFICYP 1092
(.,J
ATTRITION IN GK CYP POPULATION IN NORTH CONTINUES. 147
EVACUATED FROM 1-9 JUL 76 OF WHOM 145 FROM KARPAS AND 2 f:ROM
KYRENIA., REMAINING GK CYP POPULATION lN NORTH 6,855, KAFrPAS
6791, KYRENIA 64 (OF WHlCH 25 ARE IN BELLAPAlS). ·:
COL 1092 147 1-9 145 2 6,855 6791 64 25 ++
SY5 SS NICOSIA 444 1216432 •
ET ATP R , OR I TE
tliATIOMS NEWYORK •
lWFlCYP 1095 IMMEDIATE
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TO
FROM
DATE
NUMBER
GUYER
PREM CHAND
12 JULY 1976
UNFICYP 1095
I M M E D I A T E
REFERENCE YOUR 473 AND 1081.
1. FFCC AND CCOOSS MET ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS TO DISCUSS VNFtCYP
PROPOSAL FOR CONCLUSION OF LOCAL ARRANGEMENT ON FARMING lN AVLONA
AREA. ALSO PRESENT WERE FORE l GN MIN I STER, CHRISTOPH l DES,1 -Ml NI STER OF DEFENCE VEN I AM IN, COMMANDER NAT GD, KOMN I tJOli AND
NiCOSIA DISTRICT OFFICER, PARALKIS.
2. DETAILED DISCUSSION FOLLOWED INITIAL SCEPTICAL REACTION BY
ARCHBISHOP, DURING WHICH GENERAL GUIDELINES OF YOUR 473 WERE
COVERED. FINALLY, HE AGREED THAT UNFlCYP COULD PURSUE LOCAL
ARRANGi;MENT BUT ADDED QUID PRO QUO THAT GK CYPS SHOULD ,BE PER
MITTED TO FARM AN ADJITIONAL AREA EQUIVALENT IQ THAT WHICH I~
FINALLY AGREED FOR TK CYP FARMERS.
3. WE TOOK MATTER UP WITH TK MILITARY AND TK EMBASSY PiWPOSIN$
THAT IT BE PURSUED EARLIEST AT AVLONA BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES.
.,..._,,s • _, .............. ,_,,,, .. ?~. ,, •• ,,. __ .,_""" • tli #'.def ...-......,-.f<,'t
00TH ADVISED THAT IT WOULD BE ADVISABLE TO CONTACT DENK'fASH IN
VIEW OF POLITICAL inPLICATIOHS.
4. LATER IN DAY WE HAD MEETING WITH DENKTASH AT HIS REQUEST.
HE WAS RECEPTlVE TO PROPOSAL IN SPITE OF SOME INITIAL DOUBT.
WiEN REMINDED THAT HE HAD AGREED IN EARLIER MEETING WITH SRSG
TO ARRANGEMENT AT LOCAL LEVEL, HE STATED THAT HIS CONCEPT OF
LOCAL AGREEMENT HAD BEEN THAT IT BE CONCLUI)ED BY UNFICYP WITH
TK MIL. ITARY AND CI V.1 LI AN OFFICIALS l N AVLONA WITHOUT Rij.FERENce:
TO HIGHER LEVEL. WHEN WE INFORMED HIM THAT MILITARY AUTHORITte;s
AND TK EMBASSY HAD ADVISED UNF I CYP ON COURSE TO BE TAK~~N. HE
PROCEEDED WITH DISCUSSION OF DETAILED ARRANGEMENTS.
5. DENKTASH TOOK LENGHTY NOTES AND STATED THAT HE WOULD CON
SULT HIS ADV I SERS TOMORROW MORN I NG WI TH VIEW TO MEET IN~~ US AGAIN
m AFTERNOON.
6. DURING DISCUSSION WE EMPHASISED IMPORTANCE OF RESUMING
HUMANITARIAfv ACTIVITIES EARLIEST IN AREA AND GAVE ASSU1~ANCES
COl'!CERNING SECURITY OF TK FORCES FDL AND ESCORTING AND PATROL
ARRANGEMENTS.
7. IT WOULD BE MOST HELPFUL IF DURIHG MEETINGS IN ANKARA,
SRSG COULD EMPHASISE IMPORTANCE OF DEALING WITH THIS PROBLEM
00 BASIS OF LOCAL ARRANGEMENT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO FlNAL OUTCOME
Cf NEGOTIATIONS ON TERRITORY. IMPORTANCE OF RESUMING GK CYP
FARMING ACTIVITY NOW CANNOT BE OVER-EMPHASISED SINCE HARVEST
1'1JST BE GATHERED, ORCHARDS WATERED AND GROUND PLOUGHED FOR
SEEDING.
8. ft.S THIS MATTER IS BEIHG DEALT WITH ON THREE DIFFERENT
CHANNELS HERE. TURK I SH CYPR l OT LEADER SH I?• MIL I TArtY AN1D EMBASSY•
WE WOULD STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT CASE BE FINALISED AT ANKARA
#JD COORDINATED DIRECTIONS BE ISSUED BY THEM TO TK Ml~.ITARY AS
TrlAT IS WHERE THE KEY LIES.
COL 12 1976 1095 473 1081 1 2 473 3 4 5 6 7 8 +
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ETATPR IOR ITE
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NEWYORK•
TO : GUYER, NEWYORK
FROM: PREM CHAND.
DATED 10 JULY 1976
NUMBERS UNFICYP 1083.
0 .. • 1 ----• 9 I
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1. MANY THANKS YOUR 491 AND FOR ACTION YOU ARE TAKING.
I
L, rltA
MESSAGE TO TURKISH SIDE REGARDING COOLING-OFF PERIOD HAS BEEN
PASSED AS ADVISED. ALL PRECAUTIONS BEING TAKEN TO AVOID FURTH£R
DETERIORATtON OF SITUATION. IN VIEW OF POLICY ISSUES INVOLVED
AND NEW TRENDS CONVEYED TO US BY TURK I SH MILITARY AND I ~I OREK 'S
LETTER, WE ARE RELY I NG ON YOUR EFFORTS AT NEW YORl< AND ~IE CUELLAR' S
AT ANKARA TO CLARIFY THESE ISSUES, WITH A VIEW TO UNFIC'f'P BEINQ
IN A POSITION TO CARRY OUT ITS NORMALISATION ACTIVITIES BETWEEN
THE FDLS AS HAS BEEN THE CASE FOR OVER 18 MONTHS.
2. HAVE NOTED GORGE'S RETURN WILL DEPEND ON YOUR FEEL OF
SITUATION AFTER DISCUSSIONS ON AVLONA AT ANKARA. PRESUME OUR
CABLES IN THIS CONNECTION BEING REPEATED TO DE CUELLAR AT LONDOtf.
/>S WE HAVE NO MEANS OF SENDING THEM DIRECTLY TO HIM.
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UNATIONS
NEWYORK:
UNFICYP 1081.
TO
FRCM:
DATE:
NLNBER
GUYER
PREM CHAND
9 Jut Y 1976
UNFICYP 1081
FURTHER OUR 1032.
1 • WE QUOTE HEREUNDER LETTER DATED 9 JULY FROM OREK
TO Ge.Rt!: RECEIVED THIS AFTERNOOth QUOTEIT IS VERY UNFOR•
TUNATE TO OBSERVE FRCPJ THE TONE AND THE WORDING OF YOUR
LETTER THAT UNP'YCYP IS STILL LABQJRING Ufl>ER THE FALSE
PREMISE THAT TURKISH FDL IS THE LIMIT BEYOND WHICH THE
JURISDICTION OF THE SO CALLED .,.CYPRUS GOJERNMENT0
Sl'ARTS.
AS YOU KNOW WE HAVE NEVER ACCEPTED SUCH AN UNFAIR CONCLUSION
WHICH Dt'ES NOT IN ANY WAY REFLECT THE TRUE LE'GAL, POLITICAL
AND MORAL SITUATION IN CYPRUS.
IT IS TRUE THAT LABOURING UNDER THE PRESSURE OF GREEK
CYPRIOT PUfLIC OPINION, SEVERAL UNFICYP LOCAL COMMANDERS
I
i I ' I
lj i I
HAD IN THE PA ST ON SEVERAL OCCASI ORS Atl> IN CC'1PL!TE DIS•
REGARD OF OUR PROTEST ATTEMPTED TO ESCORT SO CALLED •• GiEEK
CIVIL lANS .. INTO THE NO-l'JABS LAND THERE•BY
Sl'EALING A MARCH ON US BUT TO HOLD SUCH SITUATION AGAINST
US AS IF A SO-CALLED • •stATUS•QUO .. HAD BEEN
E STAll.ISHED IS OfJJlOUSL Y UNFAIR AND UNJIST •
AS YOU KNtJ,I• UNLESS THERE IS AN AmEEMENT AS REGARDS
THE LEGAL AND PCLITICAL STATUS OF THE NO-MARS LAND
(THE AREA BETWEEN THE TWO FDL 'S) ANY ACTIVITY BY
ANY CIVILIAN IN THAT AREA TENDS TO PRE-JUDGE THE ISSUE,
FOR THIS REASON WE HAVE ALL AL ONG BEEN TELL I N8 UNFICYP THAT
T1£Y SHOULD REFRAIN FR()J PLACING THEMSELVES INTO THE
POSITION OF BIASED INTERLOCUTORS BY UNDERTAKING ON THEIR
OWN INITIATIVE TO ALLCM INFILTRATION OF <!tEEKS INTO THESE
AREAS.
UNFORTUNATELY SUCH ACTION ON THE PART OF U NFI CYP IN
NICOSIA IN THE YEARS PRECEDING THE 1,1.i1 £VENTS HAD BROOGHT
ABOUT AN AN(JtlALOUS SITUATION ON THE SO-CALLED ~EEN•LINE
WHERE THE <ftEEKS WERE SUPPOSED TO KEEP AT LEAST 100 METERS
AWAY. SO MUCH SO THAT IN THE CASE OF SEVERAL POSITIONS UNI- .
LETERALLY OCCUPIED IN APRIL•JUNE 1964 BY THE BiEEK
NATIONAL GUARD IN THE AREA OPPOSITE THE LEORA PALACE HOTEL
(ON THE TURKISH SIDE OF THE G?££N-LIHE) UNFICYP HAD
TO FORCE ITSELF TO SAY IN 1972 THAT A DE-FACTO 9'EEN•
LINE WAS ESTAtl.ISHED IN THAT AREA. A REMARABLE BUT
A BUNDA NTL Y UNCONVINCING AR OOMENT •
B£ THAT AS IT MAY, YOUR REFERENCE TO TH£ SECRETARY•
C£NERAL •s RECENT RE~ORT, DOES NOT ADD TO ffl 1 N ANY WAY
CHAN GE THE SITUATION. BEtCAUSE, EVEN THE REMARKS OF
THE SECRETARY-C£NERAL FORESEE Sf>'IE SORT OF AN AC!fEEMENT
OR ARRAfUEMEIT WtTH THE PARTIES CONCERNED Ff"st UNFICYP TO
UNDERTAKE CIVILlAN ACTIVITIES IN THE No-, •s LAfl>
1i .I
I
THAT BOTH SIDES ILL EXTEND THEIR P1JLLESt C <PERATION
TO UNFICYP ••• ••
WE WOALD CERlJ)AINL Y BE READY TO EXTEND SUCH CO•
OPERATION TO UNFlCYP SO LONG AS SUCH CO•<PERATION DOES NOT
IN ANY WAY PRE•JUDGE THE ISSUE AGAINST OOR RIGHTS AND INTERESTS.
BUT AS I HAVE ALREADY EXPLAINED WHAT WE ARE NOA ASKED TO
DO IS TO GIVE THE RUBBER•STAPIP TO CERTAIN ONE-SIDED
PASf ACTIONS OF UNFICYP CREATED PURELY Alt> DCCLUSIVELY
FOR THE INTEREST OF ONE OF THE COffJi'LICTI NG PARTIES.
AS REGARDS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM AROUND AVL ONA VILLAGE
I DARE SAY THAT INSISTENCE BY UNFICYP TO ESCORT <JtEEKS
IN TO THE SAID AREA AGAlNst OUR PROTESTATIONS, WILL
AMOUNT TO A <!lOSS PROJOCATION WHICH MAY RESULT IF THE
C CMPLETE DISPt!eARD OF THE CONCEPT OF CEASE•FIRE, WHICH
MUST OIIIIOUS.. Y BE THE PRIME CONCERN Afl> DUTY OF UNFICYP
TO OBSERVE AND MAINTAIN IN THE NO-MAN'S LAND.
IN CONCLUSION MAY I SAY THAT I FAIL TO SEE THE LOGIC
BEHIND YOUR ARGlftERT THAT THE A~EDlENT TO BE PIAD! WITH
REGARD TO THE STATIONING DEPLOYMENT AND FUNCTIONING OF
UNFICYP BETWEEN US, SHOULD NOT COVER THE Ro-MAATS
LAND. ARE WE TO ASSlNE THAT UNFICYP IS NOT INTERESTED
IN STATIONING TROCP IN THE No-NAN•s LANDBB?? IF
THEY ARE, WHAT WOULD THE LEGAL BASIS OF SUCH STATIONING
AND FUNCTIONING BE ?? ARE WE NOT INDULGIIG ALL OIJER AGAIN
INTO AN ENDLESS LEGAL AND POLITICAL A1HIJM£NT ??
WAR'IEST REGARDS WITH THE HOPE THAT UNFICYP SHALL
REfmAIN FRO"I PLACING ITSELF INTO THE POSITION OF PROVOKING
A BREACH OF THE CEASE-FIRE. UNQUOTE
J'5i!!i'L-
A ND CONTENT OF LETTER, ESPJ:CIALL Y AS IT CAME AFTER
SRSG'S TELEPHON[ CONVERSATION WITH INMAN THIS MatNIRG
DURING WM1CH LATTER INDICATED AGAIN THAT LOCAL ARRANGEMENT
ON FARMING IN AVLONA W otJLD MEET THEIR REQUIR!l'JENTS.
2. OREK HAS N°'1 RAISED CERTAIN OTHER ISSUES WHICH
C OHFIRM OUR ASSESSMENT OF SITUATION AS SET OUT IN UNFICYP
l 072, THAT INTENTION OF Tl.ft KISH FORCES APPEARS TO BE
GREAT DEAL MORE THAN AD HOC LOCAL AGREDIENT.
3. TURKISH SIDE'S INTERPRETATION OF DISCUSSIONS
ON lMPLiPIENTATIOtl OF PR OCES•VER BAL IS PARTICULARLY DIS
TURBING AS WE HAVE AT NO STAGE TAKEN THEM TO APPLY TO AREAS
OUTSIDE THEIR CONTRQ.. AND THEREFORE IN NO CASI: TO AREAS
BEiWEE N FDl. S.
4. IN ADDITION TO THIS LETTER, IN ABSENCE OF Gm a: WHO HAS DEPARTED ISLAND WITH SRSG, FIRST SECRETARY OF
TURKISH EfllBASSY TELEPHONED PYRICH TO 1 NF'ORM HIM THAT THEY
WERE GIVEN TO UNDERSTAND BY SRSG DURING HIS TELEPHONE CON•
VERSATION WITH COUNSELLf.Jt OYMEN THIS MCl'tNING THAT NO
GKCYPS WOULD BE PERMITTED TO WCl'tK BETWEEN FDLS IN AVLONA
AREA WITH EFFECT THIS EVENING UNTIL LOCAL ARRANGEMENT
A GREED UPON. TURKISH EMBASSY FIRST SECRETARY CALLI NG
ON BEHALF OF OYMEN ADDED THAT THIS WQJLD BE LAST CCfll'IUNI• I?..(?
CATION AT CIVILIAN LEVEL AND IF' GKCYPS ENTPf CONTESnD
AREA MATTER WOULD THEN BE LEFT IN MILITARY HANDS.
S. TURKISH MILITARY HAVE N01 A CCMPANY WITH 4 APCS
SUPPORTED BY TANKS IMMEDIATELY NCJtTH OF AVLONA AND HAVE
BEEN DELIBERATELY EXERCISING TO INDICATE SHOW OF FORCE.
TO PREVENT SITUATION FRQII DETERIORATING FURTHER VE ARE
RESTRICTING GKCYP FARflJEHS TO AREAS SOUTH OF NATIONAL GUARD 0
FDLS FOR NEXT THREE DAYS AS WE HAD K'f!D TO MAKE S(llfE PROGRESS
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6. SRSG HAS VERY KINDLY AQ!tEED TO GatGE•s RETURN
TO ISLAND IF SITUATION W.~SENS, SUCCESSION OF EVENTS IN•
DICATES ·THAT THIS WOULD BE ADVISABLE SO THAT CONTINUITY
OF DISCUSSIONS IS SECURED AND ANY MISREPRESENTATION AVOIDED.
1 HAVE THEREFORE CONTACTED Hil'I TO R!TUR N SI NC! IT MAY BECOPJ£
NECESSARY TO CONTINUE POLITICAL TALKS AT HIGH LEVEL.
WE ARE MAKING EVERY EFFORT TO RESTRAIN Al.L CONCERNED AND
IF' SITUATION IMPR 01£S WELL Ate Goa>. IF ON OTHER HAHi> IT
DETERIORATES WE SHALL BE NEEDING HIM.
7. IN VIEW OF ABOIE, IT B!CttilES EVEN MOR£ IMPORTANT
THAT AVLONA PROBLEM IS RAISED WITH PERMREP OF TURKEY AS
AN tJRQtNT MATTER IF A LOCAL TtfiKISH FORCES MILITARY OPERATION
IS TO BE AVERTED. YOUR EALY ADVICE IN THIS REGARD WQJLD
PE APPRECIATED.
8. TKCYP SPOKESMAN MADE FOLLOWING STATEl'fENT ON RADIO
BAYRAK THIS EVENINGl QYOTE GKCYPS ARE TRYING TO TURN
A SIMPLE QUESTION CONCERNING A FARM IN VICINITY OF AVLONA
INTO A BIG POLITICAL CRISIS BECAUSE OF UNILATERAL ATTITUDE
OF UN PEACE•KEEPING AUTHORITIES IN AREA. TH! QUESTION
SHOt.LD BE SETTLED BY TAKING THE CONSENT OF BOTH SIDES AND
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THEIR I NT!RES?S WHEN CARRYING OUT MUMA•
NITARlAM ACTIVITIES IN BUFFER ZON!. RECENT REPORT SUB•
MITTED TO SECCO BY THE UN S!CGEN EXPRESSED MOP! THAT THE
PARTIES CONCERNED WOULD CO•CPERATE IR SUCH MATTERS.
IN SPITE OF THIS, S(Jlf! PltACE•KUPIIG AUTKORITIES HAVE
BEEN ACTING UNILATERALLY IN FAVCIJR OF 8XCYPS WITHOUT TAXING
CONS!NT o, TURKISH SID! AND THIS HAS PROVIDED OPPORTUNITY
FOR GKCYPS TO EXPLOIT SITUATION BY ALLEGIWG THAT THERE IS
TENSION IN AVLONA AREA. TtfUCISH SIDE WOULD LIKE TO POINT
OUT __ THAT_ THE Plt-CE._~EPING AUIHOlITIES _MJ.LS1_ HAVE ocrmn. 1!11Rt•
i : ' . '
,,. __ ftirHORITY BY THEIR BIASED ia\'1ois Aii"=t1ffI1. EF;iits lo iiiiP .... ";;' THE GKCYPS TO ENTER BUFFER ZONE WHILE CONSULTATIONS ARE
IN PRO<fiESS ON MATTER. IT WILL BE APPROPRIATE TO WARN
THAT IF SAME SITUATION CONTINUES~ TURKISH SIDE WILL NOT
BE RESPONSIBLE FOR POSSIBLE UNPLEASANT CONSEQUENCES. WE
PARTICULARLY ASK THE PEACE-KEEPING AUTHORITIES TO BE
IMPARTIAL AND TO REFRAIN FRCJIJ PR"'1IDING OPPORTUNITY FOR
EXPLOITATION OF THIS KIND OF INCIDENT FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES.
UNQUOTE. +
ca..1os1, 1976 1os1 1032 1, 2 1012 3 4, 4. -,·,
1974 1964 1972++
p
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IJ 01
SY53 (UNFICYP) SSS NICOSIA 83, 09 1123• '/lfi: iTATPRIORITE
tNATIONS ~/ NiWYORK• '· V ~cc·y= .
-etfftO CODE CABLE \
10, GUYER
FROM1 PEREZ DE CUELLAR-PREM CHAND
PATEa -9 JULY 1976
NUMIER1 UNFICYP 1073 ~
FURTHER OUR 1072.
1. COPIES OF MESSAGES iXCHANIED BETWEEN CCCOOOSSS TURKISH FC>,rES
MD CCCOOOSSS UNF I CYP TH IS MORN
NQ ARE AS FOLLOWSa
· CIIOTE
1. WITH REFERIICI. TO YOUR LETTERS OF 6 AND 8 JULY 1976,
'Ill WOULD LIKE TO INFORM YOU THAT TffE MiASURiS, WHICH HAVE BEIN
tlCHRTAt<D BY UUUINN UIIL.ATIRALLY WtTH TH£ INTEKTION OJ OILY ,' ,
SAl'l~AIDINQ THI tmaans OF Tttl QIEIK CYPRIOT PAMIRS IN TKE
MIA Of 4YLONA• MD Al.SO, WtTNOUT· TAKUta, IIT& ACCOd·t. OVft _ •nr HfJ8h11& • 'l'tt1~ 21i1cu ••• ~ac>,ws-ttu: AT.aaw .. .aR aout·, ,n f:'">i'"' ••
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l
' -----:,-". •~. "'f",1f},' ·•}' . ~ .·.).'· "."'!,,,: ' ", -~ , I , " • '•· ' '
lc'f'fl•Jtlt IN 'THI ARI.AS lnwlEN THI TWO FIL.!$ IXCll'f ,THI PdRIA'
°(Jr UUUINN PIRSONIIEL PURSUANT TO MUTUALLY AUIEI ARRANINUTlw
ME COISl~EftED UNACCEPTABLE.
2. AS YOU ARE AWARE, THE ISFKENOF AVLONA HAS BIEN TAktN UP
AT THE POLITICAL LEVEL AND NEGOTIATIONS ARE STILL IOlNG ON.
JIJT. NEVERTHELESS, WE CONSIDER IT USEFUL TO REITERATE one£ AGAIN
THAT UNTIL A MUTUAL AGREEMENT IS REACHED BETWEEN 'TRI PARTI.ES
mNCERNED ON THE STATUS OF THE AREAS BETWEEN THE llll.S, trOBODY
SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO ENTER THERE. '
3. THE CLAIM THAT NORMAL CIVILIAN ACTIVITIES IN AREAS BETWEEN
THE TWO FDL'S HAVE BEEN PURSUED STNCE THE CEASEFIRE OF 16
AUIUST 1974 AND THAT IT HAS B£COM£ A STATUS QUO, IS COMPLETELY
llfACCEPTAIU BECAUSE, AS YOU WILL RECALL:, THE PRESENCE OF CIVILIANS
IN THE INTERMEDIATE ZONE HAD ALWAYS CREATED PROBLEMS AND HAD
BEEN THE CAUSES OF OUR STRONG PROTESTS.
4. IN SPITE OF OUR VERBAL AND WRITTEN PROTESTS AT VARIOUS
MILITARY AND POLITICAP LEVCWS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, IT HAS BEEN
OISERVED WITH REQRET THAT UUUNNN IS ADAMANT IN ESCORTING THE
8RiEK CYPRIOT FARMERS INTO THE ·tNTERMiDIATE ZONE IN THE AREA OF
AVLONA. IN OUR OPINION, THIS ATTITUD,E Of UUUNNN IS ESCALATING
lHE TINSfON IN THE AREA,·AND CAN BE THE CAUSE OF UNDESIRABLE
INCIDENTS FOR WHICH WE SHOULD NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE.
5. IN CONCLUSION, UUUNNN IS REQUESTED TO REFRAIN FROM ESCORTING
ANYBODY INTO THE AREAS BETWEEN TH£ TWO FDL'S.
WARMEST REGARDS •
••• 1. YOUR LITTER OF 9 JULY, CONCERNINI THE SITUATION IN THE AVLONA-
AR£A, IS HEREWITH ACKNOWl.iDQED. I AM SUI£ YOU WILL BE PUA8£D "- ' -·
TO IOTi THAT SQ!tl f(, IRESS Is II nee MADE ll Tl(_ NIGOT'lATION OF '
A LQ,AL ARRAfillEMUT ~ICH \9&1::J!~lli_l,Oll_ ,-_~nf_jlf~ M11TJ-~~-~--~--~j
FMDuwe LA·••,., ,uuaaM c:YN·teTs · ,,. ··+.· ,111 .,_.r,Jlt.Y ~, · TO Tltl TURKISH FDL.~NCIDittTAU:Y, I WAS SOMhk:) 8URPR1$1D, TO
EC&IVE VOUR NISIAQE• AS THIS PROPOSAL FOR.A LOCAi. ARRANIDIUT . . . HAS BiEN AiRIID BY THE TURKISH EMBASSY IN NICOSIA AND IS BEING
PURSUED WITH THE GREEK CYPRIOT SIDE, AT THE HIQHEST LEVILt
BY UNFICYP.
2. FURTHER TO YOUR REMARKS CONCERNING CIVILIAN ACTIVITIES IN
THE ARiA BETWEEN THE FDLS, I WOULD LIKE AQAIN, TO DRAW YOUR
ATTENTION TO THE SECRETARY GENERAL'S REPORTS. THE MOST RECENT
c, WHICH WAS THAT OF 5 JUNE 1976, WHEREIN HE STATED• +64.
•••••••• I HOPE THAT IT WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR THE PARTIES CONCERNED
10 INCREASE THEIR LIAISON AND CO,..OPERATION WITH UNFICYP AND ALSO
TO ISSUE THE NECESSARY INSTRUCTIONS TO THEIR COMMANDERS TO iNSURI
lMAT THEIR TROOPS KEEP WILL WITHIN THEIR FORWARD POSITIONS.
REQARDINS THE AREA BETWEEN THE FORWARD LINES, I WOULD EXPRESS
(JICE AQAIN MY HOPE THAT BOTH SIDES WILL EXTEND THEIR FULL
COXAOPERATION TO UNFICYP 1.N ORDER THAT IT MAY CONTINUE TO ASSIST,
tw A HUMANITARIAN BASIS, IN TH£ PURSUIT OF NORMAL CIVILIAN 1l
~ ACTIVlTIIS IN THAT AREA.+ FROM THE FOREGOINI, YOU WILL APPRECIATE
l 1HAT UNFICYP'S ACTIVITIES IN THE AREA IN QUESTION ARE
i CARRIED OUT IN ACCORDANCE WITH CERTAIN CLEAR TERMS OF REFERENCE
AS PER OUR MANDATE AND THAT• THEREFORE, ANY RESERVATIONS OR
REPRESENTATIONS WHICH THE TURKISH AUTHORITIES
HAVE IN THIS REGARD, SHOULD BE MAD£ TO UUUNNN HEADQUARTERS,
NEW YORK.
3. WITH REIARD TO THE QUESTION RESPONSIBILITY FOR INCIDENTS,
\IE WISH TO OBSERVE THAT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ESCALATlOI MUST RIST
WITH ANY SIDE WHICH INITIATES PROVOCATION OR THE USE OF FORCE
ACROSS THE CONFRONTATION LINES. IN MANY OF THE AREAS IN QUESTtOI, ,
lllFICYP'S ESCORTING 0, FARMERS HAI BEIN PURSUED THROUIH . . . .
,__ ___ Alll~E~EM_·. _IN~Ti WtTH THE. TURJ(IIH FfHlCl11 WITH __ l!Aff_tfl!~_41L.!!ll!IJ~_l~~1---
1.
: ,., ' - ~ ; '+\-\ f •• '· ::·: • ' ': '> -· },, ;'{-,:. :-: { .~-·---~. - .~i:. t~ ,/f' .. ·, , ·•'• 1\l ASPICTI DIRICTLY CONNECTED IHTH THE SI.CYR.ITY .lllQUJIIMUfl .,ANI
l&.1QNMENT OF TH£ TURKISH FDL •
. 4-. YOU MAY RIST ASSURED THAT UNFICYP WILL SPARE NO EFFORT TO
PRODUCE A SOLUTION WHICH· CAN BE ACCEPTED BY ALL PARTIES. tN ' '
THI MEANTIME WE REQUEST YOUR COOPERATION AND THAT YOU EXERCISE
RESTRAINT.
WARMEST REIARDS •.
\ltQUOTE
2. AIOVI HIGMLIIHTS OUR CAUSE FOR CONCERN OVER SITUATION WHICH
IJIFORTUNATELY APPEARS TO Bl ESCALATING IN SPITE OF BEST EFFORTS.
MY MOVE FORWARD BY TURKIIN FORCES FROM IXIITIN8 CIASWIRI. LIi£
\OULD LEAD TO AN INEVITAILE CONFRONTATION WITH UMl'ICYP. VE ARI RESTRICTING FARMING ACTIVITIE&·ay QKCYPS TO ARIAS FURTHER SOUTH
• CF ~URRENT HARVISTINQ LINE FOR NEXT THREE DAYS AS MEASURE TO
IASE SITUATION• INFORMING BOTH SIDES OF THIS MEASURl LOCALLY.
3.. SSSRRRSSS8Q8 AND SSSPPPAAA, WHO ftECEIVED RENEWED ASSURANCil
FROM INHAN MORNINQ 9 JULY •. INTENDS TO TOUCH UPON TMIS WITH OFFICIAL
fl TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTRY AT ISTANBUL ON SUNDAY. HOWEVER,
WE FEEL IT MIGHT IE ADVISABLE TD TAKE THIS UP WITH TURKISH
PERMREP TOWARDS EXERCISING RESTRAINT.+
a>L 9 1976 1073 1072 1 1 6 8 1976 2 3 1, 1974 4 5 1 5' 2.
5 1976 ,~ 4 2 3 9 ++
ZCZC UN UN
SY51 (UNFICYP) SSS NICOSIA 114 09 1123•
ETATPRIORITE
Utt~TIONS
NEWYORK=
. ~9 '.L ·1--.. ' - . '-'
~\J(~y,'·~GOlNG CODE CABLE \,,
TO: GUYER
FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATE: 9 JULY 1976
NUMB El~: UNF I CYP 1070
FURTHER UNFlCYP 1049 AND 1059.
Hoa
1.. LEAVING AFTERNOON 9 JULY FOR LONDON, ARRIVl;~G ISTANBUL,
WIERE I SHALL BE MET BY TURKISH AUTHORITIES, SUNDAY EVENING
:l1 JULY, IN ANKARA EVENING TUESDAY 13. DEPARTING
ANKARA THURSDAY 15TH •• ARRIVING ATHENS EVENING SAME DAY. DEPART
ING ATHENS FOR
NICOSIA SATURDAY OR SUNDAY 17/18TH.
2. lN ABOVE LOCATlONS I CAN BE REACHED THROUGH UNIC OP. n~mP.
AS APPL i CABLE. •
3. AS ALREADY AGREED WHEN I WAS lN NEWYORK. BEING ACCOMPA~ii~
BY SSSPPPAAA.
4. t N LIGHT OF UNF I CYP 1049 PARA. 1. THERE WI l .. L BE NO UNF l CYP
PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCING MY DEPARTURE FROM LARl•ACA.+
sY 25 SSS NICOSIA 126 07 06502=
ET ATP R I OH I TE
UNATtONS
NE\✓YORK•
UNF I CYP 1059.
CODE CABLE
TO: SECRETARY-GENEHAL
FROM:: PEREZ DE CUELLAR
7JULY 1976
tr-
1. WILL BE MEETING FOREIGN MtNISTER CHAGLAYANGIL
ot~ ~LY AND FOREIGN MIN I STER BI TS I OS ON ,J:S-JUL Y.
~ EMPHASIS AT THOSE MEETINGS WILL BE ON FACILITATING
EAHLY RESUMPTION OF NEGOTIATING PROCESS AND I SHAL.L. TAKE
LI NE YOU HAVE I ND I CATED TO ME IN NEW YORK LAST MONTH.
MY HEPORT ON THESE Vl"SITS WILL REACH YOU MONDAY 19 ~'(•~ -~,: < 1F vou w I sH ro c ABLE ME FRESH , ttsTRU(;llON.i,:.J. wo~:.:'~11~)<5?\1;fr ---------..------------....,_.........,_,._-.._..., ____ ,.__ .. ~~ . . .· ····;•
CIATE RECEIVING THEM BY MORNING"9 J~LY.
3. SHALL ASK TO BE RECEIVED BY ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS
NY 26 SSS NICOSIA 150 07 0745Z
ET ATP R l OR I TE
UNAT IONS
NEWYORK=-
UNF l CYP 105B
TO:
FROM1
DATE:
NUMBER:
CODE CABLE
GUYER, NEW YORK
PEREZ FE CUELLAR/ PREM CHAND
7 JULY 1976
UNFICYP 1058
1. FURTHER TO OUR 1033 OF 3 JULY 1976 AND "
..,..
REFERENCE LETTER FROM PERMANENT MISSION OF FINLAND OF 18 JUNE
~76. WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED LETTER FROM PERMANENT MISSION
CF FINLAND AFTER HAVING SENT YOU OUR CABLE OF 3 JULY.
WE BELIEVE FURTHER REDUCTION FINCON NOT ADVISABLE AS THIS
V'.IOULD MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR CONTINGENT TO CARRY OUT ITS
CflERATIONAL ROLE IN CONFRONTATION AREA EFFECTIVELY.
~ IN VIEW ABOVE, RECOMMEND IRISH MISSION BE
REQUESTED CONSIDER PROVISION REPLACEMENT GROUP CONSISTING
*PROXIMATELY 325 ALL RANKS, IF FINCON IS TO BE WITHDRAWN,
AS CONTINGENCY PLANNING.
~ SHOULD ABOVE TAKE PLACE, AND MUCH TO OUR REGRET
AS FINCON HAVE ALL ALONG BEEN MOST EFFECTIVE_ WF HnP~
L
CODE CABLE
TO I GUYER
FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATED 6 JULY 1976
NUMBER: UNFlCYP 1057.
YOUR 476. FOLLOWING IS VERIFICATION OF OUR UNFICYP 1051
PARAS 2 AND 3.
QJOTEt
2. RAMPHAL IS FLYING TO NEW YORK FRIDAY 16 JULY AND WILL H~VE
TO PROCEED TO OTTAWA SUNDAY 18 JULY ON COMMONWEALTH MATTERS~
3. HE WOULD BE GRATEFUL IF COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT IN LONJ)ON
COULD BE NOTIFIED IF AND WHEN SECGEN COULD RECEIVE HIM. EITttER
LATE AFTERNOON 16 JULY OR ANY TIME 17 JULY.
tfiQUOTE.
ERROR REGRETTED.•
Q)L1 1057 476 1051 2 3 2. 16 18 3. 16 17 • <J'I
!.l \I!
( I
SV,2 (UNFICYP) Ill NICOSIA 3ltO o, 1113-
ITATPIIOIITE WIATIONS
NIWYORI• JJ.nc cn)\JI~ f
OUTOlieJcoi,a CAILI
111 IUTIR ,. .... PIIIZ Di CUIIJ..AR/PREM CHAii ., .. t JULY 1t76 ...... UNFICYP 1072
MmtlR WIFICYP 1032.
Pi±:. ~1 l
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1. ,otNTS fl YOUI 471 WIiii UPUtlEI IY ua TO YDlANtl ANI ALSO
fltllSTOPfflDi&, URIUII THIM TO fACfLITA~ OONCLUSIOI o, AD KOC
LOGM. ARRAIIIMDT IN AVLOIA. WI.UNDEIITAID TNAT MATTER WAS DISCU81U '
if 8 A Y COUIC h .. 0, MIN I tTIRS. IIXT STIP 1 S. NOW FOR FORCE
CDMNAIHR·Te 1x,1.AIN PERSONALLY TO ARCHBISHOP LOCAL ARRANIEMIIT
.... ICYI' MAS II NIID- M1£TIN8 II TO TAKI l'LACl MONDAY 12 JULY •
. . 1UIIIU SIDI NAS 1111 llfORMED Of' LATTiAi MQTIN&.
. .
t.· tT ti MP0 TNAT NTN SIHI. WUJ .. SNOW SUFFtCilNT FUXlllLITY
SI 1't1AT CUI.T-IYATIII ltfFICULTIES II 1-ffl tt,tllTY OF AVLONA CAI II OYIIIOIII. II I JULY IY T-..- llttM Rllffl&tlD ft.
· ............... Ill WM•.•••·•-t:•.,.....,, ..... ,;,Mlat8N8rr. *IU IIIWl'I HatY,t.i:}JI .. ·~ :~•·f..,.~•i·-·:~::~'· ·· .. · .
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. ·- tAII T0'1ttLITAIT At:f-Tlt,ta,Wlllt·ftM'- .. ,....-· .. \.1118 INGILJ II NALYII lffWID 'ilmf ltlll II TNAT NTlt lkC'flt Mt TICYP F ARNIRI CAlt TAIi FULL OVANTA• 0, ,1u1 1111._,-t,a
\
fl OWNIISNIP. ORIK11 LITTER.OF l JULY QUOTII II UlftCYP 10'2
..WI TUlltatf SIDE'S CURRliNT TNtlllNI.
3. · ISSUI CF ARIA BITWUI LINIS- IS IOUND TO CINI UP AT MIITlN(I ..
•tRRltSISIII WILL HOLi IN ANKARA AND IN AIIITIOI T8 URtlNI ' t /
■STRAIIT, HI WILL II ITRISSUl8 ISIUTtAL RIIUIRIMIIIT GF ,uu.. .. IRATIOI TO UIFICYP TO IIIP STATUS tuO II COIFIOIITATtH
. . \ .
MIA UIDlmum. ON LIii& 0, TNI LAST
IDTIICI ., ,,aAIRAPN '4 OF IICRITARY◄IIEIAL.1 1· REPORT
s/1mt3 OF I JUNI 1,76.
1'. VI CANIOT AVOID UIJASY FEILl18 THAT TURIISH FORCES flTIID TO
INTIRflRI MORI AID MORI IH COIFROITATIOI AREA. TNIY NAVE RICINTLY MYID TANKI AID ARMOURID Y&NICLIS TO AREAS tMMIIIATILY NORTH o,
AVLOIA AS PRISSURE TACTICS. ,ACT TMAT TNEY HAYE RI-IITI'LED AVLONA, WICN IS QII.Y TWO AND A NALF KtLOMETIES FRON fUCOIIA
PIRtlTUONA-TRGODOS ao,a •. AND ARE ,1111111 TO CULTIVATE FIELDS .,.
IOUTN 0, IT AID TH£ CUSWIRI L..INE wttlN TNIY HAVI WI.I ■C&TtYATD L..AID RIAJH .. Y AVAIL.AILI NORTH 0, ,VILU&I, ts ••• ,,,cANT'
MD Dl8TUlltll.+
Ql\. t 1976 1072 1031 1 4-71 8 12 I ,8 2 1031 3 6' 1/12093 5
1976 4 ++
tuZ£Et £ +*=
CODE CABLE
l0 1 GUYER
FROt PEREZ DE CUELLAR/ PREM CHAND
DATED 6 JULY 1976
NUMBER1 UNFICYP 1052
1. DENKTASH'S STATEMENT (UNFlCYP 1045) ON VAROSHA,
INTER ALIA THAT ''TIME HAS COME TO OPEN PART
...
rF IT FOR TKCYP REFUGEES'' IS DISQUIETING AND DISHEARTENING • t
FOR GKCYPS WHO IN LIGHT OF SUCH PUBL•c DECLARATION WONDER
WiETHER NEGOTIATIONS CAN SERVE ANY USEFUL PURPOSE.
2. IT IS INDEED TRUE THAT RESETTLEMENT OF VAROSHA BY TKCYPS
\OULD REPRESENT HEAVY BLOW TO NEGOTIATING PROCESS. MATTER
MAY WELL COME UP IN SRSG'S MEETINGS IN GREEK AND TURKISH
CAPITALS.
NNNN
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0
0
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CODE CABLE
TO 1 . GUYER
FROM1 PEREZ DE CUELLAR/ PREM CHAND
DATED 6 JULY 1976 _
HU'MBER1 UNFlCYP 1050
··- --· FURTHER UNFICYP 1032.
1. IN COURSE MEETING WITH TURKISH AMBASSADOR INHAN S JULY
SRSG AND SPA RAISED QUESTION OF AVLONA. ENVOY SHOWED
WDERSTANDING AND FELt IT WOULD BE MUCH PREFERABLE TO ARRANGE
LOCAL AD HOC AGREEMENT IN AVLONA THAN HAVE WHOLE PROBLEM
CF BUFFER ZONE RAISED AT THIS JUNCTURE AS AREAS BETWEEN LINES
WILL HAVE TO BE SETTLED WHEN TERRITORIAL ISSUES ARE DISCUSSED.
2. AFTER MEET I NG HE CONFERRED W l TH TURK I SH FORCES AND
CONFIRMED THAT THEY TOO WERE IN FAVOUR OF LOCAL AD HOC
AGREEMENT IN AVLONA.
3. WE HAVE SAME DAY TALKED TO VENIAMIN. AGAIN ALONG LINES
f:F YOUR HELPFUL 471 AND TODAY 6 JULY WILL ALSO ENLIST
SUPPORT OF CHRISTOPHIDES.
NNNH
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IliCOJCtllG CODE CABI.:I . , . ' .
sn3 sss BICOSIA 101 Oo 06051
TCh GUYER Pf j ~7 {__-.
FROM:
DATEt
lfUMBER:
PEREZ DE CUBLLAR
6 JULY 1976
UNFICYP 1049 f t
l. Arra:nge11enta have now been made along lines your 469
pAra 1 (b). 'l'urlish government attaching greatest importance,
ae matter ot principle, to utilisation of Tymbou/Erjan airport,
Inhan had. to insist, though making exception to their policy,
that flight to .lnakarll. originated in Europe.
2. Will now arr1 v~1tara 13 July and be rece1 ved by L
Pore1gn Minister 14 July. On 15th I will be in Athens and be
r•ceived folloWing day by Foreign Minister.
... --5 :-,
CD , I , .•
3. Will cable exact itinerary later this week •
CODE CABLE
SY57 S NICOSIA 163 3 1045Z •
ETP
lNATIONS
NY•
TO: GUYER
FROM1 PEREZDECUELLAR/PREMCHAND
DATE: 3-7-76
NUMBER1 UNFICYP 1033
~
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(.,_
c ,-• -' O")
0 CQ
r:::) (.,:,
1. REFERENCE YOUR 470. WE ARE VERY APPRECIATIVE OF OFFER TO
RE I NFORCE UNF I CYP IR I SH CONT I NGENT TO STRENGTH OF ONE COMP A~·l Y •
WT WE ARE DOUBTFUL WHETHER TIMING WOULD BE RH~HT AT MOMENT.
ESPECIALLY AS CHANGES RECENTLY MADE.HAVE BEEN GENERALLY IN
TERMS OF REDUCING SIZE OF FORCE. WE HAVE MANAGl~D
TO COPE WITH REDUCTION OF FINNISH.CONTINGENT B'f MAKING CUTS IN
lNTERNAL
LOGISTIC ALEMENTS AND ALSO ADJUSTMENTS TO SECTOR BOUNDARIES.
Jl. THOUGH FORCE IS NOW FULLY COl~MITTED W 1TH FEW RESERVES WE
FEEL EXISTING STRENGTH IS ADEQIUATE TO STABILISU SITUATION
!.NDER CURRENT CONDITIONS.
xew, ;Lszs;:sa
2. IN VIEW OF FOREGO I NG, AND WI TH PRO BAB l LI TY OF FORCE
ADJUSTMENTS UPON IMPLEMENTATION OF PROCES VERBAL. WE WOULD
SUGGEST THAT AT THIS STAGE YOU KEEP IRISH OFFER OPEN AND THAT
REQUIREMENT FOR ADDITIONAL COMPANY BE REVIEWED LATER THIS YEAR.
IF HOWEVER FINNISH CONTINGENT WITHDRAW ALTOGETHER BY END OF ,\
YEAR, THEN FULL USE SHOULD BE MADE OF ORJSH OFFER. ENDALL +
OOL 1033 1. 470 2. +
' . . ... - .. ...... ' ....
' ... -
..,.... ...... ,.. , ~ ~
j_•.;:. .... ':.i ·-
•
CODE CABLE
SY56 S NICOSIA 740 3 10452 •
ETP
ltiAT IONS
NY•
TO: GUYER
FROM: PEREZDECUELLAR/PREHCHAND
DATE: 3-7-76
NUMBER& UNFICYP 1032
'&'OUR 471.
IN VIEW OF DISQUIETING TRE~ID AND DISREGARD OF CERTAIN
ESTABLISHED PRINCIPLES PERTAl~ING TO AREAS BETWEEN LINES
CONTAINED IN OREK'S LETTER TO SPA RECEIVED 3 JULY
0 co 0 w
AND ANSWERED BY SPA SAME DAV. WE ARE QUOTING THESE LETTERS
IN FULL. IT IS QUITE CLEAR THAT OREK HAS ESPOUSED WELL-KNOWN
VIEWS OF TURKISH FORCES WHICH ARE NOT IN LINE WITH DENKTASH'S
SUGGESTIONS TO SRSG ON 29 JUNE FOR SETTLING AVLONA FARMING
PROBLEM LOCALLY (UNFICYP 1019). WE ARE PURSUING MATTER
WI TH BOTH SI DES.
1.
QUOTE
REFERRING TO OUR DISCUSSION ON THE OTHER DAY OF THE
PROBLEMS AROUN~\AVLONA VILLAGE AND THE DISCUSSION OF THE
SAME MATTER WITH THE PRESIDENT MR. DENKTAS, Pt.EASE NOTE
THAT WE CANNOT AGREE WITH THE DELlNIATJON OF ,l LINE
SiOWN ON THE SKETCH PLAN AS THE GREEK CYPRIOT FARMING LINE6
AS YOU KNOW OUR POSSITION WITH REGARD TO THE AREAS BETWEEN
n&E TWO FDL•s IS QUITE CLEAR., (A) THERE CAN l~E NO CIVILIAN
ACTIVITY BETWEEN THE TWO FDL LINES, THEREFORE NO LAND CAN BE
ASSIGNED TO ONE OR THE OTHER SIDE AS CULTIVATl10N AREAS ETC.,
(B) THE QUESTION OF ANY CIVILIAN ACTlVlTY BE ~T HUMANITARIAN
OR OTHERWISE CANNOT BE UNDERTAKEN BY UNFICYP \IITHOUT PRIOR
S'ECIFIC AGREEMENT., (C) NO MILITARY OR CIVILIAN PERSONEL CAN BE
PRESENT BETWEEN THE TWO FDL LINES •• (D) THE Q~fESTlON OF
SETTLEMENT OF REFUGEES BEHIND THE FDL LINE IS WITHIN THE
EXCLUS l V~ AUTHOR I TY OF THE TUl?K I SH FEDERATED $TATE OF CYPRUS.
AS YOU WILL APPRECIATE. THE EARLIEST CONCLijSION OF THE
AGREEMENT REGARDING THE STATIONING. DEPLOYMENT AND FUNCTIONING
CF UNFICYP WITH THE TURKISH SIDE WILL GREATLY HELP US TO
AVOID MISUNDERSTANDINGS ON THESE POINTS.
HAVING ALL THESE IN HIND l WISH TO LODGE A STRONG PROTEST
AGAINST THE HANDLING OF THE SITUATION NEAR AVLONA BY LOCAL
lfiFICYP COMMANDER WHICH TENDS TO PRE-JUDGE THE ISSUE BEFORE
1ME AGREEMENT REFERRED TO ABOVE IS CONCLUDED.
UNQUOTE
QJOTE REFERENCE IS MADE TO YOUR LETTER NO. S. IJ. 96/72
<J= 2 JULY 1976.
I SHOULD LI KE l N TH IS CONN EX I ON TO DRAW YOlllR ATTENTION TO THE MOST
RECENT REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL
S/12093. IN HIS OBSERVATIOHS, CHAPTER VI I PARA.GRAPH 64,
HE EXPRESSES O~CE AGAIN HIS HOPE THAT BOTH Sll)ES WILL £XTE!liD
TiiEIR FULLEST CO-OPERATION TO UNFICYP IN ORDER THAT IT
MAY CONTINUE TO ASSIST ON A HUMANlTARlAN BASIS1 IN THE
PURSUIT OF NORMAL CIVILIAN ACTIVITIES IN THE A.REA BETWEEN THEU
RESPECTIVE FORWARD POSITIONS. IN PARAGRAPH 9 HE ALSO
REFERS TO UNFlCYP'S EFFORTS T() PROVIDE SECURITY TO FARMERS,
SHEPHERDS AND OTHERS WORKING .N THE AREAS BETW'EEN THE FDLS,
AS A NORMALISATION MEASURE. FINALLY, THE LATEST SECURITY
OJUNCIL RESOLUTION NO. 391 APPEALS AGAIN TO ALL PARTIES
OONCERNED TO EXTEND THEIR FULLEST CO-OPERATION SO AS TO
ENABLE UNFICYP TO PERFORM ITS DUTIES EFFECTIVELY. IT IS
EVIDENT FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL'S REPORT AND ALL
PREVIOUS ONES THAT WHILE NO MILITARY MAY MOVE BEYOND ITS
SIDE'S FDLS AS SUCH MOVE WOULD CONSTITUTE A BREACH OF THE
CEASE-FIRE, THE SAME DOES NOT APPLY TO CIVILIAN ACTIVITY
a= A HUMANITARIAN NATURE., PROVIDED IT IS PROPERLY ARRANGED
AND UNDER UNFICYP ESCORT. AS A MATTER OA FACT SUCH
NORMAL CIVILIAN ACTIVITIES IN AREAS BETWEEN THE LINES HAVE
BEEN PURSUED SINCE THE CEASE-FIRE OF 16 AUGUST 1974 AND
niE RESULTING STATUS QUO SHOULD THEREFORE BE ALLOWED TO BE
MAINTAINED.
THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM AROUND AVLONA HAS BEEN DISCUSSED AT
HIGHEST LEVEL ON BOTH SIDES AND NEGOTIATIONS ARE CONTINUING
SO THAT SOME AD HOC LOCAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE TYPE DISCUSSED
WITH HIS EXCELLENCY MR. DENKTASH CAN BE SECURED WITH THE
00-0PERATlON OF ALL ,-CONCERNED. PENDING THESE NEGOTIATIONS .
WilCH WE HOPE WILL BE SUCCESSFUL, INSTRUCTIONS HAVE BEEN
ISSUED TO KEEP GREEK CYPRIOT FARMERS, WHO ARE -~BOUT TO
HARVEST THEIR FIELDS, A SAFE DISTANCE AWAY, I.E. THEY
WILL KEEP 500 METRES AWAY FROM THE OUTER LIMITS OF AVLONA,
IN THE AREA EAST OF THE AKAKt/AVLONA ROAD.
AS YOU WlLL RECALL, THE PROCES-VERBAL SIGNE:D ON 13
IECEMBER 1975 PERT Al NS TO THE ST AT t ON I NG. DEPLi)YMENT AND
FUNCT l ON I NG OF UNF I CYP IN THE AREA UNDER TURK I ;SH CONTROL
AND NOT TO THE CONFRONTATION AREAS AS SUCH •• rrs IMPLEMENTATION
THEREFORE IS NOT LINKED TO THE AVLONA FARMING f:>ROBLEM WHICH
IFFECTS THE AREA BETWEEN THE CEASE-FIRE LINES.~ THIS HAVING
BEEN SAID IT IS OF COURSE SINCERELY HOPED THAT THE CURRENT
DISCUSSIONS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROCES-V£RBAL
CAN SOON BE CONCLUDED.
UNQUOTE.
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COL 1032 471291019 96/72 2 1976 S/12093 64 9
:P1 16 197 4 500 13 1975 +
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SY-~5 S NICOSIA 71 21009
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TO GUYER
FROM PEREZ DE CUELLAR/PREM CHAND
DATE 2 JULY 1976
NUMBER UNFICYP 1027
1. YOUR 471 GREATLY APPRECIATED. IT lS EXACT LINE
WE HAVE TAKEN WITH VENIAMIN AND HIS MINISTRY ON 30 JUNE
AND 1 JULYB
2. NEW ATTEMPT WILL BE MADE TO PERSUADE 8KCYP AUTHORITIES
TO AGREE TO SUCH AD HOC LOCAL ARRANGEMENT.
3. WI LL KEEP YOU INFORMED.
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FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR/ PREM CHAND
DATED 1 JULY 1976
NUMBER: UNFJCYP 1019
FURTHER UNFICYP 964.
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1. SITUATION tN AVLONA AREA CONTINUES TO CAUSE CONCERN, TURKISH
SIDE MAINTAINING ITS CLAIM THAT HEW INHABITANTS SHOULD BE PERMITTED
TO tARM GKCYP-OWNED LAND SOUTH OF TURKISH.FDL. DENKTASH
TOLD SRSG ON 29 JUNE THAT SUCH FARMING SHOULD BE ALLOWED UNDER
LOCt\L ARRANGEMENTS INASMUCH AS GKCYPS, NOT FAR EWAY, AND ALSO
BET'L!/EEN CEASE-FIRE LINES, ARE FARMING LAND OWNED BY FORMER
TKCYP INHABITANTS OF PERISTERONA. DENKTASH SUGGESTED THAT GKCYPS
OONTINUE TO CULTIVATE tHAT LAND BUT THAT ••tN EXCHANGE''TKCYP
CIVILIANS FARM JUST SOUTH OF AVGONA. GENERALLY WITHIN RADIUS
fF SOME 200 METRES FROM TURKISH FDL ..
1
2. MATTER WAS DISCUSSED IN SOME DETAIL WITH GKCYP
AUTIHORITIES, ALSO AT MllNISTERIAL LEVEL. VENIAMIN, WITH
SUP~ORT OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, TAKES POSITION THAT NO TURK
OR TKCYP, EVEN IF CIVILIAN, SHOULD UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES
CROSS TURKISH FDL, QUE8TION OF TKCYP-OWNED LAND BETWEEN
CEA!SE-F I RE LINES BE I NG t RR ELEV ANT.
3.. IN CONSULTATION wrtH M&NISTRY OF INTERIOR, AND IN ORDER
TO PREVENT ESCALATION, GKCYP FARMERS HAVE FOR SOME DAYS
KEPt AWAY FROM FIELDS CLOSE TO AVLONA. VENIAMIN ASKED THAT
THESE RESTRICTIONS BE r,l\AINTAINED FOR A WHILE, THIS BEING
FAR BETTER THAN ALLOWING CIVILIANS TO CROSS TURKISH FDL EVEN
UNiJE:"? UN ESCORT.
4 .. VENIAMIN IS CONVINCED THAT IF HIS SIDE WERE AGREE TO LOCAL
ARRANGEMENT lN AVLONA, AS OUTLINED IN PARA. 1 ABOVE, TURKISH
SI DE ~<JOUD
EK SIFILIAR ARRANGEMENTS ALL ALONG CEASE-FIRE LINE,
TiiUS GIVING TANGIBLE EXPRESSION TO THEIR CLAlM THAT AREA BETWEEN
LINES IS POLITICALLY AND LEGALLY NO-MAN'S LAND,
DISPOSITION OF WHICH WILL HAVE TO BE SETTLED LATER.
5. IN ABSENCE OF SOME LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS IN AVLONA SITUATION
IS BOUND TO REMAIN RATHER TENSE AND AS ''REPRISAL'' TURKISH
SIDE MAY INTERFERE, AS IT DID FOR SOME TIME AFTER 16 AUGUST
3974 CEASE-FIRE, IN UNFICYP ESCORT ACTIVITY FOR
S<CYf>S WITHIN AREA BETWEEN FDLS.
6. VENIAMIN HAS AGREED THAT SITUATION BE REVIEWED AGAIN
NEXT WEEK.
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l;UATIONS
t\EW'lORK•
TO : GUYER
CODE CABLE
FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR/ PREM CHAND
DATED 1 JULY 1976.
~U~JBER : UNF t CYP 1018
- +.
1.. TlililTt SETTLERS, BELIEVED TO BE TURKISH NATIONALS.
b..V£ hOVED INTO AKHYRlTOU GR WD 784 844. TURKISH FORCES
~V£ -T-rlT~D NIGHT PAtROLLlNG IN AREA WHICH IS CLOSE TO THEIR
F1:JL ,\ND ONLY 200 METRES FROM BRITISH (AYIOS NIKOLAOS) SBA.
2. SETTLEMENT OF THIS VILLAGE AS WELL AS OF AVLONA, WEST OF NICOSIA,,
ILSO VERY CLOSE TO TURKISH FDL. IS INDJCAT.IVE OF TERRITORIAL
I NTEtJT IONS ..
3. PROBLEMS CAUSED BY SETTLEMENT OF AVLONA ARE DEALT WITH IN
SEPERATE CABLE.
SY22 (UNFICYP) SSS NICOSIA 84 30 O736Z•
ETATPRI0RITE U\IATI0NS
NEWYORK•
. CODE CABLE
TO: GUYER/URQUHART
FR0M1 PEREZ DE CUELLAR/PREM CHAND
DATE1 30 JUNE 1976
NUMBER1 UNFICYP 1012
, 1. ATTRITION OF GKCYP POPULATION IN N0RTff CONTINUES
WITH EVACUATIONS FROM 1 TO 29 JUNE INCLUSIVE"
TOTALLING 35~ OF WHOM 246 WERE FROM KANPAS AND 106
FROM KYRENIA. REMAINING GKCYP POPULATION IN N9~TH
lOTALS 7,0~9 OF WHICH 6,947 ARE IN KARPAS AND 72
IN KYRENIA. 29 REMAIN IN BELLAPAIS.
2. CU~RENT AVERAGE DAILY RATE OF EVACUATIONS IS 16.
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GUYER/URQUHART
PEREZ DE CUELLA~
:30 JUNE 1,76
UNFICYP 1011
<WE FORMULA WHICH, tF NECESSARY, YOU MAY WISH TO EXPLORE
WITH TURKMEN. WOULD BE FOR ME TO FLY WIJ'H UNTSO BELAlR ..
AIRCRAFT DIRECT FROM AKROTIRI ro'ANKARA. ANKARA~ATHENS.
ATHENS/NICOSIA _LEGS WOULD BE BY COMMERCIAL MEANS.+
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TO: GUYEB/UR'8.UART FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATE: 29 JlfflE 1976 NUMBER: UNNUMBERED
Further UNFICYP 1107 para (B}. 1. Denlttash, specifying that it was for information ot SecGen.
and not for information of Gl:CCYPS at this stage., told me that correction ot line did not repeat not include retum of Morphou or area surrounding it., nor return ct Yarosh behind Turkish lines under TKCYP exclusive control could be discussed in context of "correction of line• (GKCYP side is known to reject out of hand such qualified return of GKCYPS to Varohsa).
2. Above correction of line would be 1n order of two to three percent Denktasb said and as ne clarified in same meeting when certain agricultural problems near Avlona were discussed, that this "correction 11 of two to three percent wou1d have to be found in "area between line". In that context Denktash reminded me of what he had said earlier., 1.e. wherever i'KCYPS resettle they do not leave any more.
3. In course of same conversation he said all GKClPS in north had now signed applications., they genuiuely wanted to go and not play role of "pioneers• With unhappf future 1n store for them. Therefore they would all go. Residue of GKCYPS in north would eventually be less th&!!, 500, in line with s a ratio of so~,
130 TKCYPS remaining 1n south. DI~TRT~lJ'l'.1Q.:.r
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sna (UlfFIC1P) sss NICOSIA 94 29 1240Z
FROM: DATE; NUMBER:
GUYER/URtUHART PEREZ DE (:UELL.AR
29 JUNE 1976 UNFICYP 1008
Your 461. l. Received official message through Greek Embassy that
Foreign Kinister Bitsios will be glad to receive me at any time between 10 and 15 July.
2. Still awaiting word from .A:nltara. Somewhat ominously TKCYP press has carried item to effect that my nsit to Ankara depends on certain conditions being met without specif7ing them. As this may be oblique reference to airport question, would appreciate if you remain 1n close touch on matter with Turk.men.
Ill'COXIBG CODE CABU:
sn6 llICOSIA 335 29 l.240Z
GUYEB/UR-UBART FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR DATE: 29 JUNE 1976 NUMBER: UNFICYP 1007
Called on Denktash aornmg 29 June., accompanied by Gorge. After had conveyed SecGen1s best wishes and regards, briefly revtewed SECCO debate and explained current efforts with Yie~o resuming taJ.ks., Dena.ta.ah 11ade fo11ow1ng •ey points:
AAA. His side is prepared to attend next rounds of talks when conveyed by SecGen but he considers chances ct some progress as very s11m.
BBB. Under "common baaia 11 in 21 Februaey communique he understands following: GKCYPS would have to agree at next round to bizonalism, to weak federa1 govemment with full equa1ity between communities 1n that federal government, a1l this having been agreed to by Clerides at Vienna III. For their part, TKCYPS would reiterate Denk.tash•s round five triteria on territoey and be prepared to discuss 1n general terms "correction" of line, actua1 discussion having to take place in mixed committee.
ccc. It is essential to have from veey beginning Greek and Turkish experts 1n mixed committee as TKCYP side insists on •National•, "true" guarantees, i.e. from Greece and Turkey, UK as guarantor being considered as "dead" and "whose involvement wou1d on1y complicate matters•.
DDD. Denk.ta.sh does not see how his side cou1d produce map at next round since territoria1 question Jiu.st be discussed at mixed committee in presence of experts.
EEE. Principles in para. 3 of Onan•a 1etter or 25 May are considered by him as criteria comp1ementing those •nunciated by
him, Denk.ta.sh, at Vienna five. FFF. Tal.ks any time 1n August are conven1.ent to his side but
venue should be Vienna, New York being •1nconvenient from number of points of view•.
tm'FICYP 1001
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GOG. He agrees with Onan that hwaanitarian talks Atledra should await setting up o~ new TKCYP administration. Be expects it to be in i,laee b'eginning ot July.
HHH. Discussion on implementat10'Jor proces-verbal on U?iFICYP ..... 1n north to be resumed next week and depend1n 6 on dates of my
visits to Ankara and Athens.
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GUYEB/UR-tJB.AR? FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATE: 29 JUNE 1976 BUM.BER: UNFICYP 1004
1. Ca1led on Archbishop lfaltarios aorning 29 June, accompanied by Gorge, arter I had conveyed SecGen1s best Wishes and regards., Briefly rev:1.ewed SECCO debate and explained current efforts with view to resuming tallts., Archbishop made following key points: {a) His side is prepared attend next round of talks w1 thout any
prior condition, whenever convened by SecGen. {b) However., he has serious doubts that next round will be .tru.itful in view of well-known Turltish ad TKCYP positions and policies. ( c) under
........ 0 eomm.on basisu in 21 February communi ,que he understands •agree-ment in principle st to achieve such 11«greement in pr1nciple 11 he considers it essential that concrete proposals be submitted by
both sides at meeting which could lead to substantial discussions and ideally to rapprochement of Yiews. Sub:mi.ssion of •concrete proposals" would be :made at next round and not before. Denktash's Vienna V "cr1teria 11
, even it expanded., do not amount in Archbishop's view to uconcrete proposalsu. (d) His side ia also ready to submit map but on1y if other side does llkewi.se and if maps are simUltan• eously given to SecGen. If" t'urkish side is not ready for map, his side will not produce one either. {e) For territorial issue to be discussed in mixed committee there must be agreement 1n principle, otherwj_se he cannot agree., under any circ\llD.stances, to have territorial aspect discussed by llixed committee. It is impossible, according to Archbishop., for mixed committee to agree on anything 1.: agreement 1n principle has not been reached beforehand. (f} Arch•
bishop is not ready to have Greek mainland experts in mixed Committee but has reiterated that TUrJtish side is free to have experts from. mainland at any level and stage of' talks. If Turkey :reel.s that absence of Greek experts puts her 1n unfavourable light., then
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Turkey should not have her own experts at meetings and make arrangements tor back-atage advice. If Greek and TUrkish experts were attending mixed committee meeting discussions would tend to develop into four party conference• mere idea of which is completely unacceptable to Archbishop since talks under SecGen•s auspices must remain intercommunal. (g) While he has no strong preference tor venue. he feels that New York is~ of course. desirable. especially if round should produce little• Regarding dates, he prefers it talks were convened end July/beginning August so as not to be too close to parliamentary elections early September. (Archbishop himself plans to leavdfor non-aligned conference in Colombo around 10 August). Endall.
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PEREZlA:CUELLAR
28-6-76 UNFlCYP 998
1. SOVIET CHA~GE D'AFFAiRES CALLED ON ME ~ORN ING 28 JJNE AT MY REQUEST. · l N COUR~E Of GENERAL D l SCUSS I ON v,H t CH
CUVUH:D OF COURSE CURRENT EXPtORATION OF RESUf1 iPTlON OF TALKS
FUKSuANT TO SECGEN'S GOOD OFFICES, WHICH I POlNTED OUT
V•!AS BASED ON RELEVANT SECCO RE SOL UT I CNS# 'Ii ENNA V COr-it":m~ 1 QUE. I
A!JD EXPi<ESSED READ I NESS OF t NT£REGTED PART I ES FOR SIXTH ROUND,
f ;.LLUDf.l) TO TASS COMMUN I QUE OF 21 JUNE ( YOUR 451).
RCGA,,D l NG LATTER, SOV l ET CHARGE D' AFF Al RES HAD HELPFUL
C)::f :~T THAT TASS STATEf·~ErH SHOULD NOT BE CONSTF:UED AS Dtr-~lfHSHiNG
IN ANY WAY VALUE OF SECGEN'S CC00 0FflCES A~D INTEHCOMMUNAL
TALKS AND vi AS NOT MEANT TO REPLACE THEi1. l T ~,IAS RATHER
:£T FOK TH ALREAuY· I U AUGUST 1974., SAME APf'L I E.D TO PROPOSAL
TrlAT SECCO SEND FACT-FINDHiG MISS!ON TO CYPRJS.
2. CHARGE HAD ALSO'PHAlSE FOR RECENT SECGEM REPG~T TO SECCO . ~-JHJCrt HE F(HJND OF GREAT UTILITY AND HELP.
3. MY MEETINGS WITH ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS AND.DENKTASH HAVE
BEE1i c,:,.if-s I RAED FOR MORN 1 NG 29 JUNE AT 10 AM AND NOON
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DATE: 24-6-76
1 UNNUMBEHED.
HAVE DI SCUSSE}) WI TH PREM CHAND. SUBJECT TO SECGEi~ 'S
~PROVAL NO CHANGE NEED BE MADE UNTIL CONCLUSION OF CURRENT MANDATE+ ENDALL +
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1. LOCAL PRE0S mt BOTH $ l DES AS \vELL AS. r:1ENKT A~rl HIMSELF,
HAVE ALLUDED TO ARfnVAL OF US TROOPS IN AK,ROTlfd SBA.
2. BRITISH HIG:-1 cor::i1s::.:1m: VOLUNTEEREi) L;FOH;,:.u.TION THAT
4 US TRANSPORT PLANES AhD 3 US H ICOPTE~S ~ITJ TOTAL
EARLIE~ THIS MONTH FRJ~
BASr~ h. JK TO AK~OTlRl .:.:. ~TMJDBY RESCUE UNIT, SHOULD
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EVACLJ ... TiON BY AIR OF US CITIZE:~s FitOM LEBAf~ON BECOME NECESSARY=
CYP~US GOVfaWMEt!T UAS KEPT ltJFOi~i-1EJ •
. ~ ACCO~DING TO S~' SCLJCE ABOVE US RESUCE UNIT LEFT
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U;JATIONS
CO:CE CABLE
TO:
CUELLAR
J.;.T;:J 26 JUNE 1976
FURTHER UNFlGfP 932.
.. _, a,
1;; PRESEi~CE OF GOr:GE, EXPLOR :JITE :-Hi'i ;~ESUi•,1PTION OF TALKS ..
i<EY PC! i·ffS MADC: BY I NH;..N ViAY BE SUi·kiAR I ZED AS fOLLO\·JS:
(h)
AS -~=f .,ED TO IN 21 FEBiW,l\£<Y V l E;•it<A P.~ESS COH11Ui~ l QUE, SHOULD., . ii~ EFfECT~ ANOUNT TO: 1/t") :.\
{ I) GKCYP SI DE ACCEPT I NG B 1-ZOi'!AL J SVi AND iVEAK FiDERAL ~~•!'<--,..,..,.,,.,.,_.....,.-""""t ""-:<~'"'"'',.._"r"' ____ .... _.
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. 1F(:.J3.3i:.L3 PACi\AGE DEAL CviJCEPT I NASl'iUCH AS ACCEPT A:~cE OF BI-ZONAL I SM
A~D ;JE:AK CEl·JT~AL G_OVERNMENT DID NOT REALLY CONSTITUTE
"COiilCE~SIONS" BUT ~:AS RATHER HECOGNITION OF UNDENIABLE
REALITY.
.,
(B) ?.EFERRli~G TO ARCHBISHOP HAKAR!OS' POSITION, STATED
IW PUBLIC AND REPORTEDLY ECHOED BY BITStOS IN OSLO, THAT TKCYP
~EPRESENTATIVE COULD AT ANY TINE BE hSSlSTED BY TURKISH EXPERTS,
BS IT AT .. l\EXT ROU~!D OF TALKS OR IN JOINT COMMITTEE, BUT THAT THERE
... -"i.S <~'~H LI AR [JEED FOR GREEK EXPERTS IN El THE~ OF AoOVE FOnA,
INHAN STRESSED THAT THIS WAS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE TO TURKISH
SI :JE = QUI TE CLEARLY, IT WAS ATTENPT, ·INTER AL l A, TO PUT
TlH-~KEY IN BAD LIGHT ''OCCUPATlONPO~JER.'' IT W.fJ.S
ESSE1ff i AL, l NHAN E:,'iPHAS I ZED , THAT EXPERTS F·ROl1 BOTH ----<'•··--~---.. .. . --- .
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r-DTHERLANDS PARTICIPATE IN MIXED COMVi I TTEES.
(C) PAPADO~OULOS' STATE~ENT, EXPLAINING HIS DIFFERENCES
WITH CLERlDES AND REASONS FOR HIS RESIGNATION FROM LATTER'S PARTY,
SHOv:ED ~lGlDITY, LACK OF ANY ELEMENT OF CONCILIATION, -.- ..... ~·• ~f-.,1,,,,"(,,·1,;V~'l'I\'
A PAR AMOUNT QUALITY FOR ANY NE GOT 1 ATCR, AND LAS THEREFORE :::EI NG
0..0SELY EXAl'ilHED BY TUf~KlSH SIDE. IN THIS CONTEXT l~HAN
LOtWEr~ED HO'.J NEGOTJ AT IONS COULD PO~S l BLY PROGRESS WITH EMERGING
NE'.; Gl<CYP SET-UP, ARCHBISHOP B~ I NG t!OW
FLANKED BY PAPADOPOULOS Af~D KYPHIANOU WHO IS LIKELY TO BECOME
FRESID~NT OF HOUSE IN WAKE OF SEPTEMBER E~ECTIONS.
(L:) :~H l LE EXPRESS I NG HIS GOVERNMENT'S SUf PORT FOR E;1RL Y
;-~SSJi:;p-j I ON OF TALKS ~ 1:'~HAN NEVERTHELESS CAUT I O~iED THAT SEC3EiJ ,.
'1::...s FACING SERIOUS OBSTACLES AND RUNNING DANGER OF BEWG FaUSTRATED.
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{E) ON OTHER HAtW, tNHAN READILY AD1lilTTED THAT FIVE
CRITE~IA lN PA~A. ·3 OF OiJAN'S LETTER OF 25 ViAY \·!ERE NOT
''PRE-CON~iTIONS•', VHICH WERE RULED OUT BY
ERUSSELS.PROCES-VERBAL, BUT RAT~ER ''GUIDE LINES'',
''IDEAS'' FOR DlSCU~~IO*•
2.. SAi•iE r-lORN I NG GREEK AMBASSADOR DOUNTAS CALLED Oi~ ME.
l-:E ·.:,~s :-1A INLY INTERESTED IN BE I r-lG BRIEFED ABOUT CURRENT EFFORTS TO
MAVE TALKS RESut·iED. HE FELT THAT PATH TO TALKS WOULD BE
TtiO;:NY, NOT ONLY FORTHCOMING GA BUT ALSO NON-ALIGNED
CJf!FERENCE l N COLOMBO FROM 16-19 AUGUST WHERE Ai'{CHB I SHOP
r•:Ai<A~ I OS PE;-{SONALL Y PLANS TO DENOUNCE TURKEY, ALREADY CAST I i'1G
lliE IR SHADOWS.
3. i:XPcCT TO CALL ON BOTH ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS AND DENKTASH
11JESD~ Y 29 JUllE.
4. INCIDENTALLY, RE UNF1CYP 972, UPON NY ARRIVAL IN
CYPRUS I JID i~OT USE TERM "PEACE OFFENSIVE".
I ·r.hS BE 1 NG INTERVIEWED AT A I RPORT IN FRENCH~•
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l. Moming 25 June aet fi.rst Greek and then Turkish .Ambassador. parti.cularly with latter discussion was rather Wide-ranging, on which I Wi.ll report separately.
2. Both are going to consult their Poreign Ministers as to their availability during coming days for my proposed rlait. In this connexion Inhan was again inaistent on my using Tymbou/Ercan airport in Turkish controlled part of island. I expl.ained to hill.., as I had done to Turkmen., reasons for my inatil.ity to do so. As I aa afraid that 1n his message to Ankara Inhan will expound his views on matter., I would be obl.1.ged if you would, on urgent basis., approach Turkmen, reminding him or my recent conversation with him., during which he had undertaken to utake care of problem", suggesting at same time that I fly to Ankara, avoiding Athens• e.g. from London., Zurich (or as I :may do from some lliddl.e East air-yort).
3. GratefU.l for your assistance.
Di'COMIRG OODECABLE
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24 JUNE 19 UHFICYP 945
1. Moming 24 June met first Papadopoulos and then Onan and exp1ored with them resumption of negotiating process al.ong -----------------------------------3:ines we __ di~~ussed with Secgen. Gorge was present. 2. Both, after reiterating wel.l mown views based on recent exchange of l.etters, Wished 1n eftect to ascertain latest position of their side in light of SECCO meeting, Onan adding that new T.KCYP "Cabinetu wil.l be f'unctioning by end of first week of July and will then be able to consider fundamental policy issues. He would not l.ike to meet on humanitarian matters at Ledra before then. 3. Will be calling on both Archbishop and Denktash ear1y next week and will. then report fUlly. on 25 June will. be seeing Greek and Turkish Ambassadors and mention proposed visits to Athens and Ahkara.
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NUi'i3ERa UNF t CYP 945
1. TKCYP POLICE ELEMENT INFORMED UNFICYP LIAtSON TEAM
v.'HEN ON WEEKLY VISIT TO BELLAPAJS THAT GKCYPS THERE WOULD BE
TRANSFERRED SOUTH WITHIN TWO WEEKS AND THAT THEREAFTER rHOSE
1N KARAKOUMI AND UPPER KYRENIA WOULD BE MOVED. '
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2. c,_,?P'i' JF LETTER \•:ILL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO SRSG AFTER ITS
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LETTER TO SLCC'::11 .~;\TED 23 JANUARY 1976. IT WAS NOT MADE
PVbLIC AND 1.T ,:'."OLLvc:EJ DtRECTIVES CONTAINED lN YOUR MEMORANL.,;j'
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21 0t-. 14 JUt~E AtD 19 m, 15 JUNE.
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: .. TED 10 JUNE 1976
1. GKCYP REACTION TO SECGEN'S REPORT HAVING BEEN GENERALLY
F.\VOL;.,1.Z~LE, OPP03lTE 1.:AS TO BE ECTEJ FRJ!1 Tl<CYPS. SO ;=AR
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(:I .;;·,::.TEHENT 1N CHAPTER VI I OBSERVATlOi~S TO EFFECT THAT E>~~Ht,i·~GE
OF P,WPOSALS ON TERF< I TOR l AL ISSUE H,-\,3 IWT BE FULLY C.i-.R/; I ED
OUT Is NOT SHARED BY TURK l SH s l DE \·.JH I CH co;is I DERS PROCEs.:;
COl1PLETcD BY REPLY I GI VEN BY m: !~N TO P /\P ADOPOULOS O!'(
25 ,·iAY, SETTING OUT TKCYP POSITION.
(B) . CHAPTL:; l I I LAU AND ORDER SUGGESTS TH AT Ui'!C l VPOL HAS
•·::,·~ .. r~:}IBILITY FY'i PROJL~, i=,.·-~ .. ?{ r:;::-:vp~· t:: ;:::::~TH,
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i:.Lc, ·.c:.:T H;.s REJUCED l i',C I DETrS li'JVOLV HW THEFTS OF HOUSE..:-; .. )LD
GJOI:S,· ETC. ( 11) THAT PfWCEDURE FOR SCREENING APPLICt..TIONS
SHOULD BE EfiTRUSTED TO u:JF I GYP AND ( I I I) TH_A.T TURI< I SH ~: l DE
IS IN ESSE~CE ~ESPO~SIBLE FOR SHORTAGE OF TEACHE~S IN
i:O.\TH IS ClL\LLENGED.
c.:) CHAPTER V GOOD OFFICES OF SECGEN Is cor~s I DE RED FACTUAL.
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2. ACTl~G T0RKISH CHARG~ D'AFFAIRS, OY~EN, WHOM GORGE SAW ~;oRNING l'J JU:! c AT FOfc iEl1' S ~,EC:UEST, EXP"ESSED HI hSELF liJ GE[, EHAL TERllS
h.iI; FELT TnAT CHAPTEFc 111 LA~/ ANJ ORDER COULD HAVE BEEN HORE
i;,L;:,;JCED 3Y GlVli,:G-~JEIGHT TO DEN1<TASH'S POSITION THAT GKCYPS
V:: TO SOUTH D:::GAUSE THEY SEE NO FUTURE FO:~ THEr,; /:J!D THEIR
F.L'.\i·illli::i liJ Tt<CYP Ri:GIOtJ= FOF~ SAf.iE REAsm~s, n;cYPS lN 19751
IDTH THOSE or; SBA, s i\:rn ! rl OTHER PARTS OF SOUTH, HJ\i) u.; s I ST.ED
O:J r·.ovlrJG i'WiiTH ..
~ J-· KTA8H ~~S QUOTED BY RADIO BAYRAK AS HAVING SAID TO PRESS
f.'0:,;:li.G 10 JUi·JE THAT CHAPTER 111 CONTAINED EVALUATION OF GKCYP
COViPLAINTS RATHER THAN FACTS OF SlTUATION, ADDING THAT IT
\i.OULD BE INHUMAN AND AGA l NST REAL IT I ES TO PREVENT GKCYP S .
VOVING SOUTH.
~ THERE IS SOME HESITANCY ABOUT CELIK GOING TO NEW YORK~
BESIDES ELECTORAL P~EOCCUPATIONS, TURKISH SIDE, AS SEEN FRO~ HERE,
APPEAR TO A IM AT KEEP I NG SECCO DEBATE AS LOVJ KEYED AS POSSIBLE, ---------------- ....... THUS BLUNTING CHRISTOPHlDES' CURRENT EFFORTS.=
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1. DENKTASH VISITED VATHYLAKAS ON 8 JUNE. HE TALKED TO GKCYPS iJ COFF~E SHOP. AFTE~WARDS'HE APPROACHED UN .LIAISON POST . (LP), SPOKE TO PERSONNEL THE~~ ON GENERAL MATTERS AND ASKED Tdcl. "f0 PASS FOLL0 1d HJG f.iESSAGE TO HQ UNF I GYP:
OJOTE:
VATHYL:"';:~.\S - Gf~EEj< PUPULAT I Qr; CO'.WLA INS THAT AL THOUGH THEY '
HAVE APPLIED TO GO SOUTH1 WE ARE NOT SPEEDING THEIR D~PARTURE. I TOLD THE~ TH~T WE HAVE NO OBJECTION. UN CAN VERIFY THIS
vk: SHALL MOVE THEM IMMEDIATELY. (SIGNED) R""···
2. LP PERSO%NEL AT VATHYLAK"AS HAVE."WO· KffOwt
APPLICATIONS TO LEAVE AND DID fWT SAY ANYTHJNG,T0°DE-Nlff 11-i IS EFFECT,, LP CMiNOT VER I FY BECAUSE THERE IS NO FREEDOM OF
· fDVE~ENT IN VILLAGE AND ATTENTION OF TKCYP AUTHORtTIES IS BEING DRAVm TO TH! S. t
• I
~ UNF!CYP INFORMED GKCYP AUTHORITIES OF ABOVE AND AWAITS ·n-H:IR kEACTIO!'J, lF ANY. IT ls ESTABLISHED UNFICYP POLICY, Cf" tH I CH T,<CYP LEADERSHIP 1 S AWARE, NOT TO M,OVE GKCYPS SOUTH
WITHOUT CO~SENT OF G~CYP AUTHORITIES} ENDALL
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D.\TE 10 JUNE 1976
f•.tJ;.;BEF< UNF I CYP 8:?9
1. YCU VJ I LL BE GLAD TO KNmv THAT THE QUE Hi Of JEN; :ARl< WI LL
C.-.AC ! ,)U;:>L Y DE Pi~ESE[\Tl NG B~/\VE cci:,rnucr LELAL.S TO 19 ,·THBERS OF ' '
0.(.1:Cci; Oi~ 19 JU[~E For~ Ti-iE IR EXCEPT I O[·JAL SE.iV ICES 7L":; Ii·:,~ THE
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Tt-i l S EfD 1.-.,: I LL BE Gf:Et.TL Y APP REC I /\TcJ.
2._ YGJ 11i-1Y ':}!SH TO CC\.::·,' SUITAi3LE i·lESSAGE THfi.1u ih.:.
:CAi~ I s1-: i, ISSI or,; TO T,-L:: < .. : I I ::::.-,s OF T: ➔ E fi.\;!,\i-~D Oil Tii I~ ccc,;s I Or~. I
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1. GKCYP P~ESS REACTION TO SECGEN'S REPORT TO SECCO -INS CABLED S ARATELY.
SLLSTANTIVE OFFICERS AT-TURKISH EMBASSY AND IN OREK'S ·"'---•--·---~-------·· -- ........ --~-----
CfF I HIWE co;;r,·,Et•!TED AS FOLLO~·JS ON CHAPTER V LI OBSE~;\iJ,T 10;s ' . ,., .. ,-~,_,, ____ ----~--~--·-·""""''--~.-~,,- .,
S/12093. IN. EIR VIEW THIS CHAPTER HAS BEEN CAREF0LLY
:-<AFTC:J /Urn ,~EPT AT LO\(j(EY. s·:::>hE Of ITS CC[JCLUSIO[)S
t\E r:j· E2 i.:.'T .:-,,::.11c:::.., BY THEi'-1, ESP \ALLY THOSE A30UT
C:J;~T1:1l.<.J Tc::SIQ[; (-'lirn UiJSOLVEJ PROBL iS SltJCE 1974 (PAR..:. .• £3).
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J( E·'.,;\j;Zli>.;G l~ffERif:r=r1mu•,LISt\TlON OF P;';OJLE[·l ,lt1THEK THAN ...
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;:J iT,;2,-: UNF I GYP 892.
~- IT IS REGRETTABLE THAT ONAN AND PAPADOPOULOS PUB~ICLY
,,i:FlT _ Et:.c;➔ OTHER 1 S STATEMENT i ,ADE AT 27 MAY LEDRA :<E IL.::.
c.. PAGE 3. (LlCTTOM) A[l;D PAGE 6 (TOP) OF DRAFT SU>HAF.Y
COf~D (F<1UCi--::~; TO SRSG 2 JUNE) [~ ER TO TH l S 1·:PTTER
J:~ :1j ARE BHSED ON VERBATIM RECORD TAKEN l N SHOi=ffHAf~D BY
S~GRETARIES, ACCURATELY R~FLECTING WHAT HA6 BE' 3AID.
~HILE PAPADOFC~L.5 h~J l~JEED STATED ON ~7 ~~y THAT
LI NETY-iJ I NE PE:1CE:;T ·.. Ti :;:: ;-; V ji,~G COHE S·:JUTH Ht,J ':. ~TED
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REFERENCE YOUR 418.
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1. CONFIRMED TECHNICAL PROBABLY UNINTENTIONAL VIOLATION AIR SPACE TU~KISH FORCES DAKOTA 1126 HOURS 25 MAY 1916 (SITREP 6514 PARA Fl~ST DELTA REFERS).
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2. THERE WAS ALSO REPORT OF OVER-FLYING AREA OF DHERINIA,DAM . (4 KM DUE SOUTH OF FAMAGUSTA) BY UNIDENTIFtED AIRCRAFT 2355 HOURS
LOt~AL 24 MAY, AND IT APPEARS THAT CLOSE PROXIMITY THESE TWO EVENTS . ., '
MAY HAVE LED TO SOME CONFUSION.
3. NO REPORTS OF ANY VIOLATION AT 1130 HOURS.24 MAY BUT FURTHER INQUIRIES POSSIBLE IF MORE DETAILS INCLUDING SOURCE OF REPORT MADE AVAILABLE BY CYPRUS CHARGE D'AFFAIRES+ ENDALL
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TCh URQUHART FROINFO: PEREZ DE CUELLAR
, FAOM1 PREM CHAND/GORGE
DATE1 8 JUNE 1976 NUMB.ER: UNFl:YP 887
1. FOR REASONS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN UNFICY~ 885 PARA. 3, YOU MAY DEEM IT APPROPRIATE TO MAKE RENEWED. APPROACH TO TURK I SH PERMREP FOR RE-OP.EN I NG OF NI COS l A
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ON BASIS OF UNFlCYP 1622 PARA. 3 Cf' 9 OCTOBER 1975, NAMELY EXCLUSIVE USE OF EAST-WEST SHORT RUNWAY WITH NOTIF ICATlON TO PARTl·ES AS IS DONE FOR
HELICOPTER FLIGHTS. 2. AS YOU ARE AWARE, CLOSURE OF NICOSIA AIRPORT BURDENS lMFICYP FINANCIALLY, OPERATIONALLY AND ADMINISTRATIVELY, AS USE OF AKROTIRE AIRPORT INVLVES EXCESSIVE EXPENDITURE FOR TRANSPORT IN ADDITION TO MANPOWER COMMITMENTS. SPECIFICALLY, AV id LAB i Li TY OF iH co~ i A Ai RPO RT FOR UNF i CYf> CONT I NGENT nv7ATIO~JS AND ADMINISTRATIVE RE-SUPPLY WOULD REDUCE ROAD MIILEAGE BY AVERAGE OF MORE THAN 60 PERCENT WITH PROPORTIONATE FJljJAf~ClAL SAVINGS. FURTHER COMPLICATION lS THAT AKROTIRI,
1).JIE TO DRASTICALLY REDUCED MANNING STRENGTH IS OPEN NOW FOR OOLY MAXIMUM OF EIGHT HOURS IN EACH TWENTYFOUR AND IS CLOSED a.J'rtRELY AT WEEKEND. THIS CONSIDERABLY INHIBITS PLANNING OF U'Jt:."ICYP ROTATION AND RESUPPLY FLIGHTS, OFTEN WITH RESULTANT
NA'rlONAL COMPLICATIONS. EN-DALL
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NUt~BER: UNFICYP 885
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1. CHAPTER QUOTE OBSERVATIONS UNQUOTEitN YOUR 413 GRtEATLY APPRECIATED. MATTERS CAUSINGPARTltULAR CONCERN TO UNtt t CYP, NAMELY V I OLAT I ON OF . CEASE-Fl RE BY MOVEMENT FORWARD.
LAl:K OF FULL· CO-OPERATION IN AREAS BETWEE~l LINES AND AB!SENCE OF NORMAL ACCESS TO GKCYP HABITATIONS, ARE HIGH
Ltl;HTED IN MOST HELPFUL MANNER.
2. REGRETTABLY, PAST EXPERIENCE HAS SHOWN THAT LOCALLY,
. AT UNFICYP LEVEL, LITTLE, IF ANYTHING, CAN BE ACHlEVED ~lt'fH THOSE CONCERNED, BE IT TKCYP LEADER$H IP OR TURK I SH FORCES, TO OVERCOME ABOVE PROBLEMS AND HINDRANCES, DESPITE
SIMILAR EXPRESSIONS OF SERIOUS CONCERN IN PREVIOUS REPORTS TO SECCO: l N FACT i N CERTAIN RESPECTS S ITUAT l I ON ·
' DETERIORATED. 3. NOW THAT CENTRE OF GRAVITY ON UNFlCYP HAS SHIFTED
10 YOUR END AND WI TH SRSG IN NEW YORK, WHO IS FULLY FAM IL I AR
i:ltH ABOVE, YOU MAY, BY WAY OF NEW CONCERTED EFFORT IN LIGHT ~ .
CF S/12093, DEEM IT APPROPRIATE TO PURSUE THESE MATTERS
Wl'rH TURKISH PERMREP, ALSO AS FOLLOW-UP TO YOUR 381. EN!DALL
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URQUHART, NEW YORK
DATE: 04 JUNE 1976
NUMBER: UNFICYP 409
REFERENCE UNFICYP 375.
C A B L E
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PREH. CHAND/GORGE
4 JUNE 1976
NUMLER: UNFICYP 875
CO DE CA3LE
1. GIST OF YOUR 408 WAS CONVEYED ON CONFIDENTIAL BASIS
BY GORGE TO DENKTASH MORNING 4 JUNE. LATTER EXPRESSED
HIS APPRECIATION FOR lT AND ADVISED THAT HIS TRAVEL PLANS OR THOSE OF CELIK, WHO WAS PRESENT AT MEETING, WOULD BE
HELD tN ABEYANCE PENDING RECEIPT OF FURTHER INFORMATION ON
DATE OF SECCO MEETING.
2. DENKTASr:, AS IS HIS HABIT, TALKED TO PRESS AFTER
~EETING OF 3 JUNE (U~FIGYP 857). CONCERNING TODAY'S
hEET I NG, DEi'-fr(T ASH UNDE:-<;TOOK TO CONFINE HIMSELF SIMPLY TO
SAYING THAT AT HIS REQUEST GORGE HAD PROVIDED SOME CLARIFICATION
00 POSSIBLE DATE FOR SECGO MEETING AND THAT DATE WOULD BE
FIXED UPON RETURN OF SECCO PRESIDENT TO UUUNNN HEADQUARTERS.·
~ DENKTASH VOLUNTEERED !~FORMATION THAT THERE WOULD BE
tJO FO.~:-;AL REPLY TO PAPADOPOULOS' LETTEi~ OF 1 JUNE QUOTED
IN UNFICYP 846, ADDING THAT WHAT HAD TO BE SAID ABOUT IT
HE M.JD ONAN HAD TOLD PRESS ON 2 JUNE ( SEE UNF I CYP . "
B.58).
4. IN VIEW OF UNFICYP 848 PARA. 1, CHRISTOPHlDES WAS
INFORMED THAT WITH REGARD TO FIXING DATE FOR SECGO. MEETING,
PRESIDENT OF SECCO WAS STILL IN ALGIERS.
5 •• SHOULD SECGEN REPORT TO SECGO BE PUBLISHED TODAY,
4 JUNE, CHRISTOPHIDES WOULD APPRECIATE HAVING TEXT OF CHAPTER QUOTE 0'3SERV t:": l ONS UNQUOTE BY.TI ME HE LEAVES
FOR NEW YORK EARL't r:,or,;i !i':G 5 JUNE.+
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ETATPR IOR ITE
UNATIONS
TO: FI ELDSERV FROM: DUNN
DATE: 4 JUt~E 1976 NUMBER: UNFICYP 872
Er'l!L PYRICH.
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FOR PERSONAL REASONS AND ALSO IN ORDER TO AVOID ANY MISUNDERSTANDING
BET\•/EEN HIM AND HIS FOREIGN MIN I STRY, PYR I CH IS ANXIOUS TO
KNOW WHETHER HIS ASSIGNMENT WITH UNFICYP WILL BE EXTENDED BEYOND 15 JUNE AND IF SO FOR HOvJ LONG. SSSRRRSSSGGG FULLY
INFORMED0
0N MATTER AND ON NEED TO HAVE PROPER HANDOVER
BETWEEN POLITICAL AFFAIRS OFFICERS.+
COL 4 1976 872 15++
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SY47 S NICOSIA 104 4 08492 •
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UNATlONS
NY=
UJF I CYP 869 ..
TO: FIELDSERV NYK
FROM: DUNN NICOSIA
DATE: 4-6~76
NUMBER: UNFICYP 869
CYPRUS GOVERNMENT VOLUNTARY CONTRlBVTIONS. LETTER FIVE
MAY SEVENTY-SIX REFERS. CYPRUS GOVERNMENT NOW ADVISES:
AAA QUOTE CONTRIBUTION OF ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
PLEDGED BY THE CYPRUS GOVERNMENT IN NINETEEN SEVENTY-FIVE
AND PA ID EARLY IN MARCH TH IS YEAR RELATES TO" BOTH YEARS
NINETEEN SEVENTY-FOUR AND SEVENTY-FIVE U~QUOTE.
BBB CONTRIBUTION OF DOLLARS TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND FOR 11-IE YEAR NINETEEN SEVENTY-SIX QUOTE INSPITE OF OUR OWN
FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES UNQUOTE. CHEQUE EXPECTED QUOTE WITHIN TiiE NEXT FEW DAYS UNQUOTE. PLEASE ADVISE SRSG AMBASSADOR
PEREZ DE CUELLAR. LETTER FOLLOWS BY POUCH. ENDALL +
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lJ.IATlONS
NY •
TO: FBOM: DATE:
NUMBER:
lMMED I ATE.
GUYER/URQUHART INFO PEREZDECUELLAR P Rfa :CH AND/ GORGE
4-6-76 UNF I CYP 867.
1; FURTHER OUR MEMORANDUM 21 MAY PARA. 2, UNFICYP 812, o37, 849 PARA. 4, 850 AND TO AMENDMENTS CONVEYED TO YOU ORALLY BY SRSG (UNFICYP 821), WE PROPOSE FOLLOWING AMENDMENTS TO PARA. 52 IN UNFlCYP 832: REPLACE SECOND SENTENCE BY FOLLOWING ''THE GREEK CYPRIOT POPULATION IN THE KYRENIA AREA DECLINED FROM 917 IN DECEMBER 1975 TO 177 ON 3 JUNE 1976 AND IN THE KARPAS REGION FROM 7890 TO 7194' '. TH I RD SENTENCE REPLACE FIGURE • ':L353'' BY 1 '1401' '.
2. FURTHER AMEN0i./lENTS ARE CONT A I NED IN CLEAR CABLE UNF l CYP 86S. ENJ
COL 867 1. 21 2, 812, 837, 849 4, 850 821 52 832: 917 1975 177 3 1976 7890 7194 1353 1401 +
TO: FHOM;
E: NUMBER::
GUYER/UR~UHART INFO P REH CH A~:.D/ GORGE
3-6-76 . UNF 1 GYP 857
PERCZDECUELLAR ~ l
1. DENKTASH ASKED GORGE TO CALL ON HIM URGENTLY NOON 3 JUNE.
FOR:vlER MADE FOLLOWING POINTS:
(A) ~HILE HE CONFIRMED WHAT HE HAD TOLD BOTH TO SRSG --A:~D PUBLICLY THAT Hts COMMUNITY HAD NO OBJECTION TO FURTHER
E:TE~SlUN OF UNFICYP 1 S MANDATE1 HE HAD TO RESERVE HIS "
t-\.1:-1 ·r I Ji~ IF Gf:,cyp SI DE ATTEMPTED TO CHANGE SECGEN 1 S
:,:. ':.i ;::;r:; HIS MISSION CF GOOD OFFICES Lt,ID DO\-!N IN PARA,. 6
s~cco RESOLUTION 367 AS CONFIRMED BY SECCO ,ESGLUTION -:J., IN OTHER \40RDS, IF ABOVE RESOLUT I Ji' S CO!\ '~.1;: NG
cl,•~, ':Cl" OFF l CES WERE hOD IF I ED, HIS C:',Hi-'i1J, I-;· (
'ii! (:iHT N0T :.:: I VE I TS CONSENT TO EXTENS I Oi\ OF UNF I GYP' S i·,ANDATE.
, B) .ON ACCOUNT OF FORTHGOM ! NG Ti<CY? ELECT I :;fJS CELI K
)) LD NOT BE IN NEW YORK NEXT WE~K (~E HAS BEEN CALLCD
CK ::!~Oii f-<Oi•lE)., CELI K COULD Q[,Jl Y ARR I VE IN NEW YORK BY
Li, 1 13 JUr·:E. THE.~EFORc DENl<TASH KINDLY REQUESTED THAT
:-·<:S ! ·· 1;:~T CF SECGO Bi:: APPROACHED BY YOU SO Tl·;,,\T IT MEETS
,·,'I 14 /~;a 15 JUt';lE AND NOT BEFORE IT \vAS OF UT!1':0ST I :-iPORTAIJCE
~/1T .-E BE I NFORHED AS QU l CKL Y AS POSSIBLE AND ~WT LATER THtd ~ JU1
- 50 THAT HE COULD MAKE TRAVEL ARRANGE~ENTS TO BE IN .,,,..,-~-.. ~~-3----
(C) DENKTASH CAUTIONED THAT ACRIMONIOUS DEBATE
,_,..,;L,j h i.:f-J.:.:Crt .~ESU;•,PT I ON OF NE GOT I AT I NG PR SS EVEU /10 t~E
fi; I CULT THAN t 7' WAS NO\·J. HE HAD ALSO HEA:· R O S
TrlAT GKCYP SIDE WAS PLANNING TO LINK QUESTION OF GKCYP REFUGE~S
TD DEBATE \,JH I CH l S TO TAKE PLACE .JN PALEST IN i AtJ REFUGEES IN
~ FORUM rlE DID NOT SPECIFY. IF THAT WERE DONE, HIS SIJE
\tK)ULD BE COMP ELL ED TO REACT IN APPROPRIATE rlt.JJ:~ i~ 1JH I CH v!OULD
~so BE COUNT~R-PRODUCT!VE T 0 ~~A~'H FOR POLIT1CAL SOLUTION.
2. PLEASE ADVISE. ENDIT +
CCH1E CABLE
SY27 FFF NI COS I A 61 03 06072 :
ETAT u:u,T l ONS
Tr,• v .. GUYER/URQUHART
liffO: PEREZ DE CUELLAR, NEW YORK Fr<Cr·i: P RH1 CHAi\D/ GORGE
DATE: 3 JUNE 1976 NUMBER: UNFICYP 855
YOUR 405. 1. CHRISTOPHIDES HAPPY TO ACCEPT BREAKFAST AT SECGENS RESlDE:,CE TUESDAY 8 JUNE 0900 HOURS.
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2. CHRISTOPHIDES GREATLY APPRECIATES APPROACHES TO PRESIDENT CF SEC CO AS PER YOUR PAR. 2. EN DALL J, ·
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PEREZ DE CV~LLAR, N;W YORK
PREM CHAND/GO~GE
2 JUNE 1976'
UNFICYP 850
FURTHER OUR 821 ..
1. PARA. 16 LINE 15 OF DRAFT SECGEN REPORT. PLEASE INSERT AFTER ''TURKISH FORCES RETALIATED'' NEW SENTENCE READING:
''ANOTHER SHOOTING INCIDENT TOOK PLACE ON THE NIGHT OF 29 MA'/ \IJHEN THE TURK l SH FORCES l N THE AREA OF SKOUR I OT I.SSA FI RED A TOTAL OF 65 ROUNDS OF AUTOMATlC AND RIFLE FIRE. ALTHOUGH THIS SHOOilNG CONTINUED SPORADICALLY FOR A PERIOD OF 75 MINUTES, THE NATtONAL GUARD DID NOT RETURN THE FIRE.'J
~ OTHER AMENDMENTS OF STATISTICAL NATURE WILL BE CABLED YOU WHEN DEADL I Nf; FOR SUCH AMENDMENTS: KNOWN.
ENDALL +
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TO: GUYER/URQUHART
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INFO: PEREZ DE CUELLAR, NEW YORK
rr;r:;4: PREM CHAND/GORGE
DATE: 2 JUNE 1976
NLiViBER: UNF l CYP 848
1. i~ NVERSATION WITH GORGE, CHRISTOPHIDES MENTIONED THA7, ~-:; H ,_,lDERSTOOD IT, SECCO WOULD MEET ON CYPRUS 8, 9 AND p··i• Y 11 JUNE, AND THAT SECGEN MAY NOT BE IN NEW YORK
:;N 7 dUNE.
~ CHRISTOPHIDES, WHO IS LEAVING FOR NEW YORK ON 5 JUNE, 1iJOULD APPRECIATE BEING ADVISED ~JHETHER ABOVE UNDERSTAN!>i~l'.:i IS CORRECT~ IF SO, HE ~OULD HOPE THAT EXTENSION OF UNFICYP MANDATE BE CONSIDERED FIRST AND THAT DEBATE ON CYPRUS PROBLEM TAKE PLACE THEREAFTER, lf POSSIBLE LATE IN THAT WEEK. •,..,!•
ENDALL +
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A T E
TO~ GUYER/URQUHART
INFt'.:: PEREZ DE CUELLAR, NEW YORK
,·~ui'. = PHEM CHAND/GORGE
DATE: 2 JUNE 1976
!•~L) './~BE t·<: UNFICYP 849
:0°THER UNFICYP 846. •• GORGE DELIVERED PAPADOPOULOS' LETTER OF 1 JUNE TO
t
0NAt~ 1'l(.,RNING 2 JUNE. AS EXPECTED, LATTER'S r.-~CTION WAS U1~Ft,\:JUR-
1~L~. DESPITE ITS LAST PARAGRAPH, HE THOUGHT iT WOULD MAKE ~ . -itE~;J>t\-lf'iON o·~· /'i;::~,1TIA·c1NG PROCESS EVEN MORE DlFFlCULT. OiL~N
W-1
f.EL I E'•ED THAT PROi·~PT ANS\• Ek C'.i HIS PART WAS CALLED FOR .. EARLY
~SPLY TO PAPADOPOULOS' LE71ER IS THEREFORE PROBABLE.
2. . o;~ f\N FELT THAT L'J VIC, OF TONE OF LETTER AND H l S CvJN
':1EAVY SCHEDULE IT '.WULD BE i· .<'.!: MORE APPROPRIATE FOR NEXT LEDRA
ETING TO ThKE PLACE AFTER SE:co MEETING AND TKCYP ELECTIONS a= 20 JUNE.
SY18 S NICOSIA 220 2 0823Z •
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UNAT i ONS
NYK •
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TO; GUYER/URQUHART
iNF(,: PEREZ DE CUELLAR, NEW YORK
: -~Oi'.: PREM CHAND/GORGE
DATE: 2 JUNE 1976
~.~t) ~/~BE c·t: UNFICYP 849
;J~THER UNFICYP 846. i. GORGE DELIVERED PAPADOPOULOS' LETTER OF 1 JUNE TO
t
CNMJ 11lvRNIMG 2 JUNE. AS EXPECTED, LATTER'S LZ::~CTION WAS UNFtv:JUR-
1~LC, DESPITE ITS LAST PARAGRAPH, HE THOUGHT IT WQULD MAKE -EES: . .J:1~f'ION 01:· i'i:.Cj,,Tlif:·IMG PROCESS EVEN MORE DIFr··tcULT. Oi!J\N -ra. l E . ED THAT PROi,;PT ANS\• [R c:~ HI s PART WAS CALLED FOR. EARL y ~EPLY TO PAPADOP00L0S' LE1 E~ IS THEREFORE PROBABLE.
2. o:~ f.N FELT TH.AT l :J VI
nEAVY SCHEDULE IT \JOULD BE
··EET ING TO ThKE PLACE AFTER
CF 20 JUNE.
OF TONE OF LETTER AND HIS OWN
: ,:!·: i•lORE APPROPRIATE FOR NEXT LEDRA
sE:co MEETING AND TKCYP ELECTIONS
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ETATPR IOR ITE
G:i AT i ONS NYK •
CODE MESSAGE
M M E D A T E
TO: GUYER/URQUHART
i:,fo: PEREZ DE CUELLAR, NEW YORK
FROM: PREM CHAND/GORGE
DATE: •i ,JUNE 1976 _._
NUMBER: UNFICYP 846
1.. AF1£:RN00N 1 JUNE PAPADOPOULOS HANDED GORGE LETTER Of,
SAME DATE ADDRESSED TO PEREZ DE CUELLAR.
2.. TEXT FOLLOWS: OOOTE - l THP.NK YOU FOR YOUR LETTER OF THE 26TH MAY BY WHICH mu COMMUNICATED TO ME THE TEXT OF A LETTER DATED 25TH MAY ADDRESSED TO YOU BY THE TURKISH CYPRIOT NEGOTIATOR MR. UMIT S. ONAN.
REGRET TO SAY THAT r1R. ONAN' S LETTER PROV I DES NO BAS I_§ FOR CONSTRUCTIVE N~GOTIATIONS AND ITS WHOLE CONTENT IS COMPLETELY
,... . , u~·ACCEPTABLE.. l DO NOT, THEREFORE, PROPOSE TO COMMENT ON -, I , , t
3. EVEN THOUGH CHRISTOPHIDES IS LEAVING FOR SECCO MEETING, a.JAN DOUBTS THAT DENKTASH WILL ALSO GO TO NEW YORK BUT FINAL DECISION ON IT WILL DEPEND, AS ONAN PUTS lT., ON DEGREE a= GKCYP LOBBYlNG''. CELIK MUST BY NOW HAVE ARRIVED IN NEW YORK.
4. PAPADOPOULOS INFORMED GORGE 2 JUNE THAT Hts LETTER CF 1 JUNE WOULD BE MADE PUBLIC SAME DAYG YOU MAY THEREFORE USE lTS CONTENT FOR SECGEN'S REPORT TO SECCO AS YOU DEEM FIT.
ENDALL + I
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IT IS NOW, MORE THAN EVER BEFORE, ABUNDANTLY CLEAR FrtC.+: HR. CNAN'S L' TER THAT THE TURKISH SIDE' S AIMfNG AT THE A30LITION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS AS ONE INDEPENDENT, OOVERE 1_ CN AND TERR I TOR l ALLY. I NT. EGRAL STATE •. FOR THE RE SUM.PT IM· 0::- THE TALKS AND THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEMY MR. ONAN PUTS FORWARD CERT Al N COND-1 Tl ONS OR PRINCIPLES THE ACCEPTANCE OF WH I v.OULD BE TANTAMOUNT TO THE PARTITION OF CYPRUS, IF NOT WORSE. THIS TURKISH POSITION ts FLAGRANTLY CONTRARY TO THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPT OF ALL UNITED NATIONS' RESOLUTIONS ON CYPRUS.
FURTHERMORE~ BY SUGGESTING THAT THE TERRITORIAL ASPECT CF THE PROBLEM BE DISCUSSED BEFORE COMMITTEES, MR. ONAN GOES BACK O'J THE AGREEMENT REACHED AT THE FIFTH EOUND OF THE CYPRUS TALKS HELD IN VIENNA, .ACCORDING TO WHICH PROPOSALS SHOULD BE EXCHANGED BY BOTH SI DFS P~ ,AN EFFORT TO ESTABLISH A COMMON BAS l S J'PRIOR TO REFERRING THE MATTER TO MIXED COMMITTEES IN CYPRUS, I.
IN THE LlGHT OF MR. ONAN'S LETTER I FAIL fo SEE TkAT
(r, THERE ARE REAL PRQPECTS FOR THE HOLDING OF SUBSTANTIVE TALKS ! ·.
1
\1;, I CH CAN LE,\D TO PROGRESS. ' ' l I THE GREEK-CYPRIOT s I DE, HOWEVER, Is READY TO RESUME THE i ,TALKS, IF IN THE SECRETA~Y-GENERAL••s VIEW THERE ARE HOPE~
llfuAT THE TURKtSH-CYPRlOT SIDE WlLL BE PREPARED TO ENTER INTO MEANINGFUL AND cor~STRUCT I VE NEGOT I AT 1 ONS. UNQUOTE ..
3. TEXT OF LETTER, WHICH IS IN REPLY TO ONAN'S LETTER QJOTED IN UNF I CYP 803, ,WI LL BE CONVEYED TO HIM BY GORGE tlORNiNG 2 dU''l: A':: ONAN IS CAMPAiGNING OLJTS!DE NICOSIA TODAY.
~ IT IS EXPECTED THAT LETTER WILL BE MADE PUBLIC. WILL ADVISE IMMEDIATELY WHEN THIS IS DONE.
5. POUCHING LETTER ON 2 JUNE.
ENDALL·+
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• ~'[ ~AAY 1976 .... .... -- ,~i -
: .vM.oiR: UNF I CYP 841 .
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-~J~ J94. UUUKKK/UNFICYP LETTER OF ASSIST. AAA ASSURANCE
GIVEN 3Y COMMAND SECRETARIAT AYE LOCAL UNDERSTANDING NOT COl'-i~:IDEP.ED
SUBJECT TO FORMALIZATION. AGREEMENT OBTAINED AT LOCt.'. WORK! l~G
LEVEL. ATTEMPT TO FORMALIZE COULD JEOPARDIZE LOCAL AGREEME~T. PARA SIX (AAA) OF DRAFT REVISION LIMITS UUUKKK COMMITMENT 1·0 PROV ID t NG FORCE FROM STOCKS l N CYPRUS OR UUUKKK DEPOTS. I,t:MANDS FROM CONTINGENTS FOR NATIONAL ITEMS NOT AVAILABLE FROM
uUUKKK SOURCES WILL NOT BE MET. BBB STATEMENT THAT QUOTE ARTMENTAL EXPENSES WILL FORM AN EXTRA CHARGE UNQUOTE IS
L•AS I G PP.1 NC l PLE 01" UUUl{KK GOVERNMENT. DEPARTMENT ti.L EXPENSES
~;~~ .:HARGED ON ALL 1 TEMS. FOR Cl VIL t AN LABOUR AND CONTRACTS EEEGGG LAUNDRY A~!l) DRY CLEAN I NG WHERE STATED AMOUNT MUST BE
PA. D TO ... T.·~:ACT0R ON OUR BEHALF DEPA~TMCNTAL EXPEl~SES ARE SEDit SEPAP:\TELV,. THF SENTENCE QUOTE DEPARTMENTAL EXFENSES WILL FORM AN EXTRA CHARGE UNQUOTE SHOULD BE DELETED FROM THE FARAGR H.. UNDER t'E ,:SENT AGREEMENT UUUNNhJ l S /HJTOMAT ~CALLY
BILLED AS NGN-EXCHEQUER CUSTOMER. CCC FA~A FOUR SHOULD lNCLUDE AFT~~ QUOTE BRITISH CONTINGENT UNQUOTE QUOTE AT NO COST TO ~r~F l CYP UNQUOTE. DDD COMMENTS TUR MEMORANDA NINETEEN
rlCVEhBER AND THIRTY ONE OCTOBER NINETEEN SEVENTY FlVE STILL S'L Y. ENDALL+
\ COL 31 1976 841 394 ++
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NEWYORK•
TO: GUYER/URQUHART INF1 PEREZ DE CUELLAR FROM~ PREM CHAND/GORGE DATE.: 31 MAY 1976 NUMBER: UNFICYP 840
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UNFlCYP 839 TIES IN \vlTH UNFICYP 770 PARA. 3 AND UNFICYP 7)6 PARA.3.+
COL 31 1976 840 839 770 3 796 3 ++
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UNATIOMS
NEWYORK s
TOa GUYER/URQUHART ►
FROM1 PREM CHAND/GORGE
DATE1 29 MAY 1976
NUMBER1 UNFtCYP 832
-CJ\
AAA. REFERENCE YOUR 395 ASKING FOR SLIQHT EXPANSION OF PARAS.
51 AND 52 OF DR.AFT SECGEQMTBA REPORT, SUQQEST, FOLLOW I NG AMIUMINTII
PARA. 511 DELETE ALL AFTf!R SECOND 8!RTENCE INl>lNI QUOTE IRDK
CYPRIOTS IN THE NORTH. UN<lUOTE AND INSERT TffE FOLLOWlNQ NEW
SENTENCES• QUOTE THERE IS INCREASING PRESSURE ON TKEM TO LEAVE
TiiE REGION. MANY ARE REPORTEDLY COERCED INTO SlaNUNQ APPLICATIONS
TO LEAVE BY BEING WARNED TAHT IF THEY DO NOT DO SO THEY WILL
~ MOVED AANYWAY. BUT WITHOUT THElR PERSONAL POSSESSIONS.
UNFICYP IS GIVEN NO FACILtTllS TO CHECK WHETHER PEOPLE WISH
TO LEAVE AND IT APPliADS THAT QICYPS ARI DETIRRID FROMIPUltN TO UNFIGYP PliRIONNIL. IUCM YJltTI At UllFf ... lllt • ..... >
KAIITATlltlS AH M.VAYa·tN TM,...:., .'Jt1;,i,,~·•:'~<·,<,,,:•. , '-111 OYPIUffl ,111:NN • MGVIJllff JI, tlA1\Y MtAf ~-.. ·•::,,:
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WHILE SOME ADDITIONAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WERE RE-OPENED IN THE
KARPAS, THE NUMBER OF TEACHERS CONTINUES TO BE INADEQUATE.
SOME GKCYP TEACHERS WISHING TO RETURN TO THE NORTH WERE REJECTED
BY THE tKCYP SIDE ON SECURITY GROUNDS. OTHERS WHOSE APPLICATIONS
WERE APPROVED ARE NOT WILZCNG TO RETURN TO THE NORTH UNLESS
LIVING CONDITIONS THERE ARE SUBSTANTIALLY IMPROVED. THERE_ ARE
NO SECONDARY SCHOLL$ OPEN IN THE REGION AND AS A RESULT A CONSIDER
ABLE NUMBER OF STUDENTS OF SECOffDARY SCHOOL AGE HAVE MOVED
TO THE SOUTH. THERE ARE STILL OVER 500 IN THIS CATEQORY LIYIH IN THE NORTH. THERE ARE ALSO NO GKCYP MEDICAL FAClLITIES IN THE
REGION BUT ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE FOR THOSE GK HPY WHO
NEED TREATMENT NOT AVAILABLE IN THE NORTH TO COME SOUTH AND
RETURN UPON RECOVERY. NINE PERSONS HAVE RETURNED UNDER THESE
ARRANGEMENTS SINCE 31 MARCH 1976. UNQUOTE
PARA. 52. REPLACE PAR.TWIN ITS ENTIRETY BY FOLLOWINQ1
QUOTE AS A kESULT• THE ATTRITION IN THE GKCYP POPULATION IN
THE NORTH CONTINUES AND HAS NOTICEABLY INCREASED SINCE MARCH
1976. '1 THE GKCYP POPULATION t N THE KYREN t A AREA DECLINED FROM 917
IN DECEMBER 1975 TO 190 ON 28 MAY 1976 AND IN THE KARPAS
REQl,ON FROM 7890 TO 7208 .. ALTOGETHER 1353 GKCYPS MOVED TO THE
SOUTH IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS.
THE PRESENT RATE OF EVACUATIONS TO THE
SOUTH IS AVERAGING SOME TWENTY PERSONS PER DAY AND IF IT CONTINUES
AT THIS LEVEL THE ENTIRE GKCYP POPULATION IN THE KYRENIA AREA
WILL HAVE LEFT BEFORE TH.E
ENE BF JUNE 1976 AND THE POPULATION
IN THE KARPAS WITHIN TWELVE MONTHS. THERE ARE NO WHOLLY GKCYP
VILLAGES LEFT IN THE KARPAS AS EITHER TKCYPS OR TURKISH NATIONALS
HAVE BEEN RESETTLED IN VARYING NUMBERS IN EACH OF THEM.
ESTIMATES OF TURKISH NATIONAL IMM OKAHION TO THE NORTH VARY
CONSIDERABLY AND UP TO 44,000 HAS BEEN MENTIONED BY THE GKCYP
AUTHORITIES. THE TKCYP SIDE HAS NOT GIVEN ANY DEFINITE FIGURES TO lJNf:'lr.YP RUT MAINTAIN~ TMAT Tt-n: Mt..lm'lfTV n,: TUI. TUAlll5Ul
· ..... "" acoNGMIC RlRDSHIPS AND RESTRICTIONS Ill
COMMUNICATINQ WITH RELATIVES IN THE SOUTH. THOSE EVACUATED ALSO
FREQUENTLY COMPLAINED OF BEING SUBJECTED TO INTIMIDATION.
HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT. THE PREVAILING MOOD Of' MANY GKCYPS •
LIVING IN THE NORTH IS THAT THEY SEE VERY LITTLE FUTURE F~ '
, THEM THERE UNDER PRESENT CONDITIONS. THOUGH MOST WOULD STAY
IF THERE WERi SUBSTANTIVE IMPROVEMENT IN THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES. :1: ••
THE PROCEDURE FOft SCREININI OF GKCYP APPLICATIONS FOR TRANSFER
TO THE SOUTH DOES N$T A,P~AR TO FUNCTION EFFECTIVELY (S/12031
DATSD31 MARCH 19761 PARA.5) IN THI U:DRA Mi&TINQ OF 27
MAY (SIE PAIA.50 AIOVi) THE MOVEMENT OF QKCYPS TO TKE SOUTH
WAS DfSCUSSED IN DETAIL AND SOME SUGGESTIONS WIRE PUT FORWARD
WHICH ARE TO BE FURTHER DISCUSSED. UNQUOTE
BBi. REFERENCE YOUR 391. PAR.2 AS YOU WILL NOTE, TURKISH
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION JS ELABORATED ON IN PARA. 52 ABOVE. ENDALL
COL 832 395 51 52 51 500 31 1976 52 52 1976 917 1975 190 28
1976 7890 7208 1353 1976 44i000 1975 9 S/12031311976
5 27 50 391 2 52 ++
SY39 S NICOSIA 81 280740 ----CODE CABLE-_..;. ____ _
To GUYER/URQUHART F':OM PEREZ I:E CUELLAR/PREM CHAND., NICOSIA r,.I, TE 2a MAY 1'_)76
NUMB;:'.R UNFICYP 821
FURT~£R UNFICYP 803.
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1. A~ENDMENTS TO DRAFT SECGEN REPORT TO SECCO 0~~CriED 22 MA~ WILL BE COMMUNICATED TO YOU BY SRSG ON ARRIVAL UN NEADQUART~RS PLEASE INFORM US OF DEADLIUE FOR FINAL AMENDMENTS. ~ PLEASE INSERT GIST OF OUR 818 IN PARA. 50 OF DRAFT REPcqr. 3. POINTS FOR CHAPTER QUOTE OBSERVATIONS UNQUOTE WILL BE C0NVEYE~ TO YOU BY SRSG. END l T
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DISBAIDMENT OF TJIKl..0S WIJULD MEAN ENO OF UNFICYP
PRESENCE IN KYRENIA AREA AND SHOULD BE AVOIDED, ESPECIALLY
AT TIME WHEN GKCYPS ARE BEING EXPELLED. SHOULD THIS BE PRESSED,
A! LEAST WE SHOULD INSIST ON RELOCATION OF TJIKl..OS CAMP 10
BELLAPAIS WHERE 10 TO 15 MEN COULD BE STATIONED, AS LONG AS
GKCYPS REMAIN IN KYRENIA REGION. FINALLY WE: BEJ...IEVE WE SHOULD
KEEP LIAISON VISITS TO GKCYP HABITATIONS AT RATE OF TWICE
A. WEEK AND NOT ONCE A WEE"< ACCORDING TO OREKS COUNTER-PROPOSALS.
CCC. WHEN ASKED WHETHER TURKISH MILITARY C0ULiJ J0Jfll t11EETltJQS
IN ORDER TO SP2ED UP DISCUSSIONS, OREK SAID THAT THIS WOULD
NOT BE POSSIBLE•
ODD. WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR GUIDANCE SO THAT OREK MAY BE
CONTACTED ONCE MORE THIS WEEK. SRSG WOULD THEN HOLD MEETING
WITH DENKTASH BEGINNING NEXT WEEK, LATTER BEING EXPECTED
BACK IN NICOSIA THIS WEEKEND. HOWEVER IN VIEW OF TIME FACTOR,
APPROACHING REPORT TO SECCO AND SECCO MEETING ITSELF AT WHICH
IMPLEMENTATION OF PROCES-VERBAL COULD LEAD TO POLEMICS AND
CONNECTED PRESSURES AS WAS CASE LAST DECEMBER I IT MIGHT BE
DESIR4BLE FOR YOU TO DISCUSS BBB ABOVE WITH TURKMEN SINCE WE
ARE NOT GIVEN OPPORTUNITY HERE TO HAVE D JALOGUE W II H ·r Ufd(ISH
MILITARY WHO ARE DIRECTING NSGOIIATIONS FROM BEHIND THE SCENES,
ENDALL
3 4#--A-, • - . ~----PL.~z.g;.qp::s., -
s. IF UNFICYP MIL IT AR r fi-(t:SENCE IN NORTH IS DECREn~--ED AS DES ~RED
BY TURKISH SIDE, HE BELIEVES THAI FOLLOWING QUOTE QUID PRO
QUO UNQUOTE WOULD BE POSSIBLF:
(I) LIAISON VISITS TO GKC.YP HABITATIONS IN KYRENIA AND KARPA..::
AREAS ONCE WEEKLY=
(11) SPiCIAL HUMANITARIAN VISITS TO GKCYP HABITATIONS EVERY
THREE MONTHS:
(11!) E ABLISHMENI OF LIA1SON TEAM CENTRE IN KARPAS=
JOFlCYP TO PROVIDE 1 (l~NSPOPf FOR ALL GKCYPS WISHING ro ,qc,,;,;; r•,, T;:IS wom D '1ft:.. EA3IfR OPPORTUNIT\ .fVtX Uh-. i
<J•HG hAD SIGNED APPLICATIONS TO GO SOUTH TO CHANGE 1HiIP ·i.tt.J~-;
THEY WOULD SI~PLY NOT BOARD BUS. THIS SYSTEM WOULD BE PREFERRED
BY TURKISH SIDE SINCE ACTUAL CHECKING OF APPLICATIONS BY UNfICYP
IS CONSIDEREO AS UNDESIRABLE ENCROACHMENT ON TKCYP AUTHORITY::
( V) RELAXATION ON ID CARDS A ND USE OF NEW FAMAGUSl A ROAD.
4. OREK STRESSED THAT EXCHANGE OF LETTERS SHOULD BE COUCHED
IN BROAD TEi~MS. FOR INSTANCE, IT WOULD NOT BE NECESSARY TO
LISi PLACES Fi?OM l.dHCH UNfICYP INSTALLATIONS WOULD BE WITHDlHiWi'l,
NOR WOULD FREQUENCf OF LIAISON VISITS BE GIVEN ALTHOUGH Sf..?ARAlE
UNDERSTAN:)ING WOliLO BE REACHED ON PERIODICITY OF SUCH V'.<Slt~:.
5. HE CONCLU) ;.;,'f SA'ilNG TifA! r-: f.."; _11':E, SUE' ::·,~ i:"; ;\R0 1•iF
~JODIFICATIONS, TUnK·gH SIDE GOES ALONG WITH GIST e,;:.• PAR.
4 OF JNFICYP 674, BUi IHAT UNFICYP IN::iTALLATIONS IN TJ!KLOS
ANU VAROSHA MUST AL SO BE D IS3AN,)£D.
BBB. !NS.tSTENCE ON EVACUATION OF TJIKLOS AND VAROSHA TOUCHES
ON MA/,.Ei-<S OF PfiI:JCIPLE .. Af'tt:;\~ FROM SlRONG REACTION WHICH COULD
~3E EXC>E.Cf ED F'ROti GYGYPS 0.1 :·""MPLETE WITHDRAWAL FROM VAR OSHA
IN VIEJ OF .US EVIDENT rm~L1GA'IlO~Js~ IT wc:1-.,) BE DIFFICULT FOR
JNF!CYP T'J .L IFY N3T REJ'AHH:1G THS ONLY UN PRESENCE IN lHAT
SY9 SSS NICOSIA 678 18 1013Z f
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UNATIONS
NEWYORX :
IMMEDIATE
tc.: "GUYER/URQUHART
1-110111: PEREZ DE CUEl.1.AR/PREM CHAND
DATE: 18 MAY 1975
NUMBER~ UNFICYP 754
FURTHER UNFICYP Gg6.
INCOMING CODE CABLE
AAA. AFTERNOON 17 MAY OREK COMMENTED AS FO.LLWS ON G!S1 OF PAR ..
4 OF UNFICYP 574:
l. IN ADDITION TO POSTS LISTED IN PARA. 5 OF UN COUNIER-
fR OPOSALS CUNF'I CYP- 600 PARA .5), COMPLETE REMOV.f\L OF T J !KLOS
CAMP MID' UNFICYP PRESENCE IN VAR OSHA IS ESSENl IAL IF AGREEMENT
IS t.O ,9[· UACHED ~lQ: .. tF. UNFr~ fC:,::t~X~fMVE JIQflEi ~'~Jr diP.N+
IN NORTH"•O~l HUMAN IT AR IAN MATTERS: .. Ht CALR'IP"IED' ·THAT" ups "IN'
VAROSHA CONVEY IMPRESSION THAT THIS PART OF FAMAGUSTA IS KHID
OF' NO MANS LAND rn SUI GENER r-s, A NOT ION WHICH !S UNACCEPT ABL£
TO TKCYPS., VAROSHA BEING NO DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER LOCALI1'Y
IN TUHKISH-CONTROLLFJ) ARE.A.,
2. WHILE TURKISH MILlTARY WOULD ALSO LIKE XE.\0S CAMP TO BE
.DISBANDED, HE'D OES NO! BEL !EVl:.:, !HAI !H.EY .Wll."L INSIST ON II ..
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UNFICYP 670 GUYER/URQUHART f'R(t,I PEREZ DE CUELLAR.
AAA OOIERNMENT PUBLIC INFORNATIOR OFFICE AT 1300 HOURS LT 4
MAY ISSUED fQ..LO.flNG STATEMENTI ••05 ACCOUNT OF C05TU1UUG
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"'' ~ :r::• -" !\ .::-
REPORTS AB0tl1' THE SUBIIISSIOR BY ?HE GKCYP SIDE or NEV PROPOSALS
ON THE TERRITORIAL ASPECT or Ht CYPRUS PROBLEM, s
P2:
GOIER14MENT SPOKESMAN HAS MADE THE FOL.LOWING STATE!lfERTs
HE GREEK CYPRIOT SIDE HAS ALREADY SUBNI?Tm ?TS PROPOSALS 011
HE TERRITORIAL ASPlCT o, THI CYPRUS PROBLEM AND DOES MOT lHTEHD ,
0 SUJ!lllT NEW ON£S. THE TURKISH CYPRIOT SIDE CLAtl"TNG HAT THt ------N SECRETARY-~NERAL 'S ffAME WAS VRO~(I.Y MUTIOIIED tff ~
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THE GREEK CYPRIOT PROPOSALS Off TH! TE'RRITORIAt. ASPECT OY THE
PROBLEM R£1'UfHJED THEM AND REFUSED TO PRESENT ARY PROPOSALS OP'
lTS OWN OR THE P1ATTEft. 1T HAS.Bt!R REPEAttDLY AND OFFICIALLY
STATED THA THE ~EEX CYPRIOT SIDE FMMULATED ITS PROPOSALS StMPLY
MAVltf8 Ill MUm, AM> ADOPTING, CERTAIN s
P4 :r
SUGCESTIONS OF THE SECRETARY•KGEHERAL OF A PROCEDtmAL NATURE.
TJIE llU'ltREICE TO THE SECRETARY•G!N!RAl. PROVIDED A PRtTEXT TO \
THI: TUJH(ISH CYPRIOT LtAJ)!RSHIP TO CORTINU£ ITS. 0£LAY1Ntl AND
NE G\TlVE TACTICS., THE PRETEXT PUT FMWARD IS EMlR!L Y UNJUSTIFI£D.
BESIDES, REGARDLESS OJI' TH£ REFERENCE TO THE S£CRETARY-GtMERAL •~- :z '--~ .
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FOTfHJ.ATE"D BY TH! CliEEK CYPRIOT SIi)! AND ARE Rt'GAftD!D ,- Atm HOLD
GOOD., AS 1TS PROPOSALS. 11
BS.8 rem YOUR IHl'ORMATIOff BOJ!RMIJENT PUBLIC I RFCRMATIOH OFFICE
MADE Jll'UBl.IC GREEK CYPRIOT AND Tl!RKISK CYPRIOT WJUTTEN PROPOSALS
11 fMEIR ERTIRETY AS WELL AS MR. PAPADOPOUl.OSt LETTER TO ME
·oy 22 APP.IL +
C«. G? 1300 .4 + ., ' i
3. PAPADOPOULOS FELT THAT TEXT NEED NOT BE CONVEYED TO ONAN BUT
HAD OF COURSE NO OBJECTION TO MY MENTIONING RECEIPT OF
LETTER TO TKCYP SIDE IF I DEEMED IT APPROPRIATE.
4- PROPOSE TO MENTION LETTER TO DENKTASH AND ONAN WHEN I
SEE TtJEM EARLY NEXT WEEK SINCE IT PRESUMABLY SHOULD BE MENTIONED
!N FORT}iCOM I NG SECGEN REPORT TO SECCO.
5. RELEVANCE OF LETTER IS OF COURSE, AND THIS WAS lM?LIED
av PAPADOPOUtOS WHEN HE DELIVERED LETTER TO GORGE, THAT GKCYP
SIDE IS IN NO MOOD TO CHANG.E WORDING OF TERRITORIAL CL.!\'JSE
IN TH£•R WRITTEN PROPOSALS AND PLAN TO RESS' ft.FPROACHES TO THIS >;udit: 'ii? 8 . l'lWJU Ill ii HJ if'i!F$ If11i1)'11:m.«!JJI• Q Q q1z111•--= JI[ I M
E."ll),. ;HIS WAS CONf !RHED TO ME EVENING SAMe DAY BY GREEK ~ _"_.........,·,4~M11; IS 4Al!ll¾4 b ,,$11!il'P;l(<;~~~~~~~~..,,.,-_..,_..,_,"""l.~~•--''£-'c<M~.,..c,,,,,.,._~-
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T01 GUYER/URQUHART
FROM: PEREZDECUELLAR
LATE1 19n5-76
NUMBER: UNf' I CYP 761
1. EVEN ING 1.8 MAY I RECEIVED LETTER FRQ!t.J~-~'-.Q§
GiVING Fl:LL TEXT OF STATEMENT CONTAINED IN UNFICYP '570.
2. ABOV ;;: Tl:!XT WAS f ri :CEDED BY FOLLOW i "Q r,;o PAP.AGR!;rnsa
"FURTHtk ·;-o OUR ~::fVE:?,\L CONVERSATIONS ON THE PROPOSALS OF
ntE GREEK-;;Yi RI :-,T SI DE ON THE CYPRUS PRQBLEM A!.: -r; Ot• THE REPLY
THEREON tir~D VARIOUS COMMENTS OF THE TURKlSH-CYPRtOT s;t,E I WISH
TO BRING TO YOUR NOTICE A STATEMENT OFFlClALLY MADE Oti 4/5/76 BY
TiiE SPOKESMAN OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLlC OF CYPRUS. THE
FULL TEXT OF WHICH I APPEND. FOR EASE OF REFEREtlCE. HERE I NBELOW.
nus STATEM[tJT IS FULLY ADOPTED BY ME AS CORRECTLY REFLECTING
THE P:)5~·~lON OF THE €REEK-CYPRIOT SIDE ON THE SUBJ~~·r AND I WISH ---------• 4 "k'fiC(llj ... lltlWI,~ ..,,.___...-~AA'III~~~.;;;,.,,.. 11,,itJo:llkW .............. ~
TO ASSURE YOJR EXCELLENCY THAT THIS CONTINUES TO BE THE POSITION
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SY20 (T-450) S NICOSIA 80 19 11082 •
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WAT IONS'
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t.NF I CYP 7 63.
T01 LANSKY FIELDSERV
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I':tTE1 19-5-76
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REUR 361. FS POSTINGS. AAA BY CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM
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lO MARCH 1976 RAMNARINE GRANTED DEFERZ-IENT HOME LEAVE UNTIL
FIRST QUARTER 1978. BBB. FSO K. HAGER. PLEASE REFER TO
PARAGhAPH 3 CONFIDENT t AL LETTER 12 MARCH 1976 cor-.-r A I }Hr. .i
DETAl~eD EVALUATION REQUESTED YOUR LETTER 2 MARCH 1976.
REQUE.51" SERIOUS CONSIDERATION BE GIVEN TO REPLACEMENT HAGER
BY SATiSFACTORY FIELD SERVtCE OFFICER FOR CLAIMS REQ!JIRE~~ENT.
ENDALL ♦
3. THERE WAS ALS< 'OSSIBILITY OF HAVING SEC SEND FACT-
FINDING MISSION TO CYPRUS. HE SAID.
4. CHRI STOPHJDES FELT THAT POINT 2(D) HAD BEST CHANCE
a=-BEING GIVEN FAVOURABLE CONSIDERATION BUT BEFORE PURSUINQ
HIS SOUNDtr/Gs MUCH FURTHER HE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SECGEN'S
VIEWS ON HATTER. ------5. CHRISTOPHIDES CONFIDED THAT Wt-lAT
HIS SIDE WAS AFTER ~u~s TO CH~?itGE ~· ,,, t f '''.?C\OD OFFICES
MISSIC~P' TO ''MEDtATlCt'', MA.IN Ah,_·~--~ .f Bc.Ui\.i THAT
IT \rn.s INTOLERABLE THAT SECGEN. AS TURKEY SEES lT, CA~nJT
EVEN MAKE PROCEDURAL SUGGESTION lN COHTEXT OF NEGOTlATIH& PROCE~S.
6. WHE'4 ASKED ABOUT MY OWN OPINION I WAS CAUTIOUS Bur -----------------·--· POINTED OtJT THAT SECG~'; AS A RULE CAN OPERATE MORE EFFECTiVEtY
WiEtJ HIS rlANDATE IS BROAD AND NOT LAID DOWN TOO RIGIDLY.
WilCH ALLOWS HIM TO SEEK FULLER CO-OPERATION FROM PARTIES
AND PERMITS QUIET DIPLOMACY.
7. C.REEK AllB!\SSA:t)OR HINTED TO ME THAT GKCYPS WOULD WELCOME
ff If lN!TiATIVE TO HAVE NAMIBiA TYPE ADVISORY GROUP CAME FRO:".-· ~~ ,,,
SECGEN Ii J MSELF • ...-·-~
PLEASE ADVISE. ENDIT +
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FROM1 P EREZDECUELLAR
rJL~lBERz UNF l CYP 767
l. r :ru TOPULDES HAVING RETURN~D TO I ~LAND LAST WEEK.END. "'.
H \ ~ "~N i H !Tl AT I VE HE STRESSED DES I RABIL iTY OF STRENGTHEt-H~r
TiiA'T hE WAS SPEAKING j~FTER tlAVING CONS'JLTEI> ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS.
\;CO~Dt: S TO hiM THERE WERE FOLLOWING POSSIBILITl~S1
wtDE.r:t C::" '.=-cr:JlCE AS ADVOi.:ATEn BY USSR ••
t,'on1·-·1rt,"'f P)tl CF PAPA. 6 OF SECCO RESOLUJ"ION
I.~. ATTACHED TO SECGEN
4. IN VIEW OF ONAN•s PAST CAUTION IN COMMITTING HIMSELF TO LEDRA MEETING WITH PAPADOPOULOS, GORGE RAISED MATTER WITH INHAN WHO ASSURED HIM THAT THERE WAS NO OBJEC;ION AS FAR AS HE COULD SEE, DESPITE CURRENT QUOTE GKCYP OFFENSIVE ON HUMANITARIAN MATTERS UNQUOTE, TO MEETING 24 OR 25 MAY BUT THAT ONAN COULD NOT DECIDE BEFORE DEtJKTAsH·s RETURN TO NICOSIA, EITHER 21 OR 22 MAY. AT SUGGESTION OF INHAN, I AM N01J WR IT ING TO ONAN PR OP OS ING LEDR A MEET I NG ON 24 OR
25 MAY, PAPADOPOULOS BEING AVAILABLE BOTH DAYS. THIS WOULD GIVE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE SECOND MEETING SAME WEEK BEFORE SSSRRRSSSGGG DEPARTS FOR UUUNNN HEADQUARTERS (YOUR 366). IF MEETINGS BETWEEN PAPADOPOULOS AND ONAN ON HUMANITARIAN MATTERS ARE DEE~ED DESIRABLE IN MY ABSENCE, GORGE WILL PART IC I PATE AS IN PAST.
s. WE FEEL IT PARTICULARLY IMPORT ANT TO MAI NT AI N CONT ACT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF PROCES-VERBAL WITH INHAN HERE AND TURKMEN AT YOUR END SINCE TURKEY MUST IN SOME WAY, IF ONLY INDIRECTLY, BE ASSOCIATED WITH FORTHCOMING ARRAN3EMENTS TO AVOID REPETITION OF VIENNA III EXPERIENCE WHEN TURKISH MILITARY INFORMED UNFICYP THAT DENKTASH COULD NOT COMMIT THEM ON SECURITY MATTERS. THIS IS ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAT UNFICYP WOULD WITHDRAW tJUM3LR OF ITS INSTALLATIONS FROM NORTH AND NOT MERELY UNMAN THEM: REMANN!NG OF POSTS WOULD THUS NOT BE POSSIBLE IF TKcY?S WOULD NOT K~EP QUOTE THEIR SIDE OF BARGAIN UNQUOTE. E tJSALL +
COL ~O 1976 770 1 20 365 2 2(C) 2(D) 2(E) 3 24 25 4 24 25 21 22 24 25 366 5 ++
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ZCZC UN mJ X-SY3G CUNFICYP) SSS NICOSIA 465 20 1140= ET ATPR IOR I!E UNAT roi~s NEWYORK= IMMEDIATE TO: GUY'.::R /URQUHART FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR/PREM CHAND DATE: 20 MAY 1976 MNUMBER: UNFICYP 770 1. OREK HAVING NOT BEEN AVAILABLE BEFORE 20 MAY ON ACCOUNT OF T l<CYP CELEBRATION, GORGE CONVEYED GIST OF YOUR 365 TO HIM THIS MORNING. HE WILL PASS IT TO HIGHER AUTHORITY. 2. AT SSSRRRSSSGGe ·s RE:~UEST GORGE THEN REVIE:WED SAME SU3JECT WITH INHAN. LATTER AGREED THAT GAP BETWEEN ftESPECTIVE POSITIONS HAS NARROWED AND UNDERTOOK TO DO HIS BEST TO OVERCOME LAST OBSTACLES. HOWEVER, HE ESPECIALLY SEES PROBLEMS WITH Ui:FICYP•s PRESENCE IN KYRENIA AREA AS BELLAPAIS WOULD IN HIS OPINION BE TOTALLY UNSUITABLE FOR UNFICYP CAMP, BEING MILITARY t,,REA. AT BEST t TVP.l{ISH SIDE -- THIS l.JAS HINTED ;~y OREK -- rlIGHT OFFC:R ALTERNATE ACCOMMODATION FOR TJIKLOS CAMP FEW MILES EAST OF XYRENIA NEAR SEASHORE. THERE WAS NO ADVERSE REACTION TO YO~R 2CC), 2(0) AN0 2(E).
3. HELPFULLY, INHAN VOLUNTEERED INFORMATION THAT HE WOULD ST~ONGLY RECOMMEND TO ANKARA THAT EXCHANGE OF LETTER
IMPLEMENTING PROCES-VERBAL NOT REPEAT NOT BE LINKED TO RENEWAL OF' UNF'ICY? MANi)ATE, ESPECIALLY Sl~CE REMAINING DIFFERENCES ~:ERE NOT SO GREAT. HE FELT THAT WITH BROAD PRINCIPLES GENERALLY. AGREED UPON IN COMING DAYS, IT WOULD BE EARLY ENOUGH IN HIS PERSONAL VIEW IF ACTUAL EXCHANGE OF LETTERS WOULD TAKE PLACE \JITHIN FE'..: WEEKS OF RENEWAL OF MANDATE. IN THIS CO!J'JEXIOU SSF1RRSSSGG~ WITH SSSPPPAAA WILL MEET DENKTASH ANJ JREK 24 O:l 25 !'1t.'{ ft 7 WHICH TIME IT IS HOPED TO NARR OW GAP F'URT HER.
INCOMING CODE CABLE
ZCZC Uii UH
SYltO (v;FfCYP) SSS NICOSIA 31 21. 0854• -~A· 1 p;, ~ ,.,.., tTE t. • '' • ' ,\
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TO; GuYER/URQUHART FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR/PREM CHAND DATE: ~1 MAY 1976 t,JMEER: UiJF l CYP 777
FURTHER UNFlCYP 704 AND YOUR 344. POUCHING DRAFT SECGEN REPORT 22 MAY.+
COL 21 1976 '777 704 344 22 ++
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2. CHRISTOPHIDES CONCLUDED BY SAYING THAT IT WAS OF COURSEu, LP TO SEfGEN TO JUDGE WHETHER SECCO RESOLUTION 367 PARA. 6 GIVES HIM SUFFICIENT SCOPE FOR EFFECTIVE PEACE-MAKING, SPECIFICALLY TO OVERCOME PRESENT
STALEMATE.
3. FOR MY PART I E.MPHAStZED SUBSTANCE OF PARA • 6 OF
WFICYP 767 AND AS APPROPRIATE PARAS. 3, 4 AND 5 OF YOUR 371.
4. I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF CHRJSTOPHIDES WERE TO PURSUE HIS SOUNDINGS.
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OOL17831. 22 371 367 6 367 6 2. 367 6 3. 6 767 3 4 5 371 4.
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EJ AlPR l OR I TY ~AT IONS NEWYORK•
CODE CABLE.
TO I GUYER/URQUHART
FROM1 PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATED 22 MAY 1976
NUMBER I UNFICYP 783 --- ··-.. -
1. MORN l NG 22 M,l.Y IN PRESENCE OF GORGE I HAVE CONVEYED
GIST OF YOUR 371 ll\i! GENERAL AND APPROPRIATE:: ?u.N:.ER TO CHRISTOPHIDES. WHIL~ HE APPRECIATED SECGEN'S M:JTIVATION AND A!MS TO ASSIST PARTIES lN WHATEVER WAY POSSIBLE~ HE STRESSED THAT IN VIEW OF PAST EXPERIENCE, PARTICULARLY FIVE ROUNDS OF TALKS, SECCO RESOLUTION 367 PARA. 6. AS lNTERPPETED BY TURKEY. DID NOT APPEAR TO GIVE SECGEN SJFF f CI ENT BASi S T.,:· ACHIEVE PROGRESS AND, SPEC tF f CALLY,
TO BREAK DEEPEN I NG JEADLOCK. CHRISTOPH I DES FOR ONE DOES l':f NOT BELIEVE THAT STRENGTH OF SECCO RESOLUTION 367, PARA.6~ SECG~N. HAS MEANS TO CONVENE MEANINGFUL AND CONSTRUCTIVE SIXTH ROUND, AS TERRITORIAL IMPASSE EEMS UNSURMOUNTABLE WlTH LIMITED TOOLS GJVEN HIM SO FA BY SECCO.
INCOMING CODE CABLE
SY10 SSS NICOSIA 178 24 16152 1 J'4,''
ETATPRIORETE U~AT lONS
l~C:WYORK 1
T02 SECRETARY-GENERAL FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR NtCOSIA DATE: 24 MAY 1976
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1. T>-i~OUGH GREEK AM:BASSADOR HERE AND OTHER CHAtU!ELS JHJSlOS ·:--------------HAS EX?RESSED WlSH TO SEE ME ON MY WAY TO NEW YORK. 2. t HAVE DOUBTS THAT I SHOULD DO SO AS IT WOULD BE THIRD TIME THAT! MEET EITHER BITSIOS OR GREEK OFFICIALS iN ATHENS WITHOUT HAVING BEEN ONCE TO ANKARA. COMING AS fT LOES JUST BEFORE SECCO MEETING AND IN VIEW OF GKCYP SOUNDlNGS ON SECCO RESOLUTION :JS7, AS ~JELL AS GKcv~:. I NS l STENCE ON HAVING STRONGLY WORDED SECf3~;-J Ri::i'ORT TO St.GCO AND POSS J BLY ADVE.RSE TURK I SH AUD TKCYP RE.a.·:;f l G:~, l T WOULD APPEAR MUCH MORE APPRO?R I ATE AND USEFUL IF I C0>131LE VISIT TO ATHENS WITH ONE TO ,t.NKtF:A AFTER SECCO MEETING,
--:-------~~------ ... WITH ViEW TO ASSISTING YOU TO RESTART NEGOTIATING PROCESS • .:1- IF YOU AGREE \viTH ABOVE, f.WOULD PAY PRIVATE VISIT TO PERUVIAN
N-1BASSADOR IN TEL AVIV THIS COMING WEEKEND AND FLY FROM THERE
DIRECT TO NEW YORK VIA TWA ON 31 MAY {YOUR 366). ENDIT
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~ STILL QUlTE UNACCEPTABLE TO TURKISH SIDE. IT MAY INDEED BE liSEFUL IF WE DlSCUSS i'1ATTER TOGETHER Ar,D POSSIBLY TRY TO OVERCOME
THIS STUMBLING BLOCK WtTH TURKMEN. ESPECIALLY SlHCE l~{HAN IS
LEAVH1G NICOSIA 25 MAY FOR TWO TO THREE WEEKS VACATION. DENi<TASH
S;U8GE3TED THAT APPROPRIATE REFERENCE TO ClJR;-;;ENT TALKS ON PROCES
VERBAL BE. MADE EN SECGEN'S rtEPORT TO SECCO TO EFFECT THAT THERE HAS E2EN PROGRESS MJD THAT EXCHANGE OF LETTi=.~S RECORDING MUTUA!..LY
ACCEPT ti.BLE ARRANGEMENTS WOULD TAKE PLACE ::fL.
4. RE FORTHCOMING SECCO MEETING. TH ARE HEHCATtONS , OF \>IHICH
OCNKTASH HAD SOME NOTION, THAT CHRISTOPht:Jc.S iiAY R 1£SENT CYP.:lUS
GJVEfi:~;·iSrJT. IF THAT \•JERE CASE, DENKTASH WG~iLD GO TOO. BOTH I UHAN ~-m t~;Jr~TASH HAVING ALSO GOTTEN WI ND OF GKCYP sow•;D I NGS ON
1 SECCO RESOLUTION 367 PARA. 6, STRONGLY FELT THAT IT WOULD BE ESSENT t Al FOR GOOD OF NEGOTIATING PROCESS l F SECCO REN SOL UT l c:js
i U REM~INED UUALTERED. ALSO TODAY I HEARD FROM FOREIGN MINISTRY
$:>URCES HERE THAT CHRISTOPHlDES WAS MOST LIKELY TO ATTEND SECCO t·EET l NG ..
5. RE UNFICYP 761 PARA. 4, HAVING MENTIONED PAPADOPOULOS'
LETTER OF 18 MAY TO INHAN ON 20 MAY, t ALSO BROUGHT IT TO ATTENTION
Cf" DEN KT ASH AND O~JAN TH IS AFTERNOON, CONVEY I NG FORN,\LL Y TO THEM
TEXT OF PAPAI:OPOULOS, LETTER, I NHA!~ TH Is r•iCr-m i:iG AS \.fELL AS
DENKTASl1 M4D ONAN TH? S AFTERNOON SAID ()NAN WOULD REFL Y H~:t::D I A
TE.LY THERETO, AND ':;AVE AT SAME TI ME lM?Fi..;;SS I Oi4 TO US THAT t,'.;,.,, JER
WULO cc tiA:·d;-LU~EJ. REPLY, WHEN RECEIVED, WILL BE CA!:.;.,;::. j.,' YOU FOR INsE:-<T10N IN miAFT SECGEN'S REPORT. ENDIT
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~Y9 SSS IMMEDIATE NICOSIA 470 24 16152 1
ETATPR lOR I TE t~UT JONS
NEW/C 1
TO: GUYER/URQUHART Fl,J~: ~ EZ DE CUELLAR DATE: 24 MAY 1976 li,'J::. I ATE
i'!l:'.t;:;;R UNF ICYP 796
1. AFTERNOON 24 MAY CALLED ON DENKTASH. ALSO PRESENT WERE CNM,J A~D GORSE.
2. CtV,N AGREED TO MEET WITH PAPADOPOULOS AND ME AFTERNOON
Zl MAY AT LEDRA. PAPADOPOULOS BEING CURRENTLY IN PARIS AND RETUR~i!t\G
TO ZJ!COSIA AFTERNOON 25 MAY, I FJRST TRIED TO FIX MEETH:G FOR
26 MAY BUT ON.-:,N PREFERRED DAY LATER. PAPA!:OPOULOS ALREi-\DY BEFORE
HIS DEPARTURE FOR PARIS AGREED TO MEET Oit ANY DAY THLi WEEK.
OOAN CAUT I ot1£D, HOWEVER, THAT HE WOULD HAHiiL Y BE AVAILABLE AGAIN BEFORE 20 JUNE, ON ACCOUNT OF TKCYP ELECTIONS THAT DAY. AS HE IS RUNNING FOR M.P. 3. REGARDING IMPLEMENTATION OF PROCES-VERBAL, DENKTASH TOOK SAME LINE AS INHAN IN UNFICYP 770, NAMELY THAT SINCE REMAINING DIFFERENCES WERE NOT GREAT lT WOULD BE PREFERABLE IF NEGOTIATIONS
001JtD BE CONCtl!DtJ AND EXCHANGE OF LETTERS TAKE PLACE AFTER
SEG'.;O MEETING. Ti1iS WOULD GIVE ME OPORTU~UTY, HE SAID, TO REVIE',f
CEI~:." /d ~ ASPECTS OF ARRANGEMENT W 1TH YOU AT HEADQUARTERS:, ES?EC f ALLY THJ:~.'.lY PROBLEM OF UNFICYP PRESEt~CE IN VAROSHA WHICH APPEARS TO
3. ABOVE T~XT WtLL BE TRANSMITTED TO PAPADOPOULOS UPON H!S RETURN TO NICOSIA ON 26 MAY AND WILL ALSO BE MADE AVAILABLE TO ARCHBISHOP MAKARlOS WHEN I CALL ON HIM SAME DAY.
4. WE ASKED ONAN ABOUT PRECISE MEANING OF PARAGRAPH 2, HE EXPECTED QUESTION AND WITHOUT HESlTATIONUCLARIFIED THAT TuRKISH CYPRIOT SIDE, FOR REASONS EXPLAINED, DID NOT WISH
'-TO SUBMIT ANY TERRITORIAL PROPOSALS OUTSIDE SUB-~C"""OMnnrMTTI._TT.,..,EE= ; ,----- , ---,-,,.,,..----~-----:=-:--:-·-·-----~lZED THAT THlS WAS AT VARIAt,CE WITH POSITION OF GREEK CYPRIOTS WHO REFER IN THIS REGARD TO BRUSSELS AND VIENNA V ACCORDS.
5. GREEK CYPRIOTS ARE ALSO BOUND TO POINT OUT, INTER ALIA, THAT PARAGRAPH 3{A) OF LETTER, QUOTE HOMOGENEOUS ••• DEMOGRAPHICALLY UNQUOTE, RULES OUT MASSIVE RETURN OF REFUGEES TO THEIR HOMES AND PARAGRAPH 3(D) IS AT BEST OF CONFEDERAL NATURE, NOT TO MENTION IMPLICATIONS OF QUOTE EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS OVER ITS TERRlTORIAL WATERS AND CONTINENTAL SHELF UNQUOTE.
~ ONAN IS PREPARED, IF ASKED, TO EXPLAIN LETTER TO PAPADOPOULOS AT LEDRA MEETING OF 27 MAY.
7. 1T MAY BE DOUBTED THAT ON~N'S LETTER WAS PREPARED WITHIN LAST 24 HOURS (UNFICYP 796 PARAGRAPH 5 AS IT INTRODUCES NEW ELEMENTS SUCH AS CONTINENTAL SHELFa) ff COULD WELL BE THAT FOREIGN MHUSTER CAGLAYANGIL HAD ITS OUTLINE ALREADY WITH HIM IN OSLO BUT THAT DETAILS WERE NOT FULLY CLA~tFlED THERE. El'lDALL+
COL 25 1976 803 1 25 25 761 2 21ST 1976 18TH 45/76 5TH 1976 1 2 3 3 26 4 2 5 3(A) 3(D) 6 27 7 24 796 5 ++cfll
2. lN VIEW OF THE DELICACY OF THE MATTER ANn AS AGREED AT BRUSSELS TALKS, ·, .. .:: TURKISH SIDE DEEMS IT N ...... ESSARY 111AT AT THIS STAGE THE TERRITORIAL ASPECT OF THE PROBLEM BE DlSCUSSED CONFIDENTIALLY AND FREE OF PROPAGANDA CONSIDERATtONS IF THE TWO SIDES ARE TO ARRIVE AT A MUTUALLY DESlRED SATISFACTORY SOLUTION. THEREFORE, WITH REGARD TO THE DEFINITION OF THE rourJDARY LINE, THE TURKISH SIDE IS OF THE OPINION THAT IT WOULD ~ ,:,r BE ADV 1 sABL E ro~M-EN~r--ro-N-1 N-TH_E_oPEN?-R-oP_o_s_A_L_SA_N_Y_F_1_x_E_D __ .....
~;;-:RC;:;-;E~N~;,.;E:::--;;O~R~~---"1~~R E;;:-,,,;iitiH-;:::E~C;a;-;O.;-;:,M;;::;M-;;I T~T;;;:E:;,:E:-;;;S~E;:-;N:;-;-V;-;1-;::SA:;G~E::D~B Y:-:;T~H;-E-'··
BRUSSELS CCORD ARE .. ESTABLISHED. IN FACT, THE SAID PER GE OR THE AREAS OF THE TWO
REGIONS WILL COME TO LIGHT AS A RESULT OF THE NEGOTIATIONS TO BE HELD WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF A PACi{AGE DEAL, INCLUSIVE
c~ ~HE THREE ASPECTS OF THE FROBLEM ME~TfONED IN THE BRUSSELS· AC.CORD• AND IN THE LIGHT OF THE UNDERMENT10NED CONSIDERATIONS.
3. SUBJECT TO THE ABOVE AND WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE FOLLOWING PRINCIPLES THE TURKlSH SIDE IS PREPARED TO HAVE TALKS Q~ THE TERRITORIAL ASPECT OF THE PROBLEM:
{A) THE TURKISH AND GREEK REGIONS OF CYPRUS SHALL BE HOMOGENOUS BOTH DEMOGRAPHICALLY AND GEOGRAPHICALLY. {B) lN VIEW OF PAST EXPERIENCES, THE BOUNDARY LINE OF THE TURKISH REGlON SHALL BE OF SUCH A NATURE AS TO ENABLE THE TWO COMMUNITIES TO COEXIST PEACEFULLY SIDE BY SIDE AND TO MEET THE SECURlTY REQUIREMENTS OF THE TURKISH COMMUNITY. (C) THE AREA OF THE TURKISH REGION SHALL BE SO DETERMINED AS TO ADEQUATELY PROVIDE FOR THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WELFARE AND D'::'IELOPMENT OF THE TURK l SH COMMUNITY BOTH AT PRESENT AND IN THE FUTURE.
~{D) EACH REGION SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEFENCE ( pF I TS 0',i/N COASTS AND SHALL HAVE EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS OVER \jrERRlTORIAL WATERS AND CONTINENTAL SHELF.
(E} IN THE NEGOTIATIONS CONCERNING THE DETERMINATION
tTS
OF THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN THE TWO REGIONS, THE HUMANITARIAN PROBLEMS WILL BE TAKEN UP WlTH DUE REGARD TO THE PEACEFUL
COEX i ST ENCE, SI DE BY SI DE, OF THE TWO CC.ii'·1MUN IT l ES AND IN A SPIRIT OF UNDERSTANDING CONDUCIVE TO CO-OPERATlON BETWEEN THE TWO.
U:JQUOTE •
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INC01vrING CODE CABLE
1. AFTERNOON 25 MAY I CALLED, TOGETHER WITH GORGE,
~ ONAN AT LATTER'S REQUEST. HE GAVE LETTER DATED 25
MAY ADDRESSED TO ME, WHICH IS IN REPLY TO PAPADOPOULOS'S
LETTER IN UNFICYP 761.
2. TEXT FOLLOWS QUOTE
IN VlEW OF THE RECENT ATTEMPTS OF THE GREEK CYPRIOT SlDE
TO SHIFT THE B'it1E ON THE TURKISH SIDE FOR THE LAC!< OF MEANlNGFUL
NEGOTIATIONS 0~ THE TERRITORIAL ASPECT OF THE CYPRUS PROBLEM, AND WITH REFERENCE TO YOUR LETTER OF THE 21ST MAY 1976
CONVEYl~1G THE TEXT OF MR. PAPADO?OULOS'S LETTER OF THE 18TH
MAY, ON THE SAME SUBJECT, l WOULD LlKE TO STATC ONCE AGAIN -,riA'T THE T,.':1KtSH SIDE HAS ALWAYS BEEN WILLlNG TO HOLD
NEGOTIATlm,:s ;.:~ i~lt ASPECTS OF THE CYPRUS PROBLEM, INCLUDlNG
THE TERRIT.]. , •,i,~ .t.~:;ECT, SWbJECT TO THE OBSERVATiONS REPEATED IN MY L ETTf ·: l'JO 45/76 OF THE 5TH Mk( 1976 corICEF.N I NG OUR
INALIEi•".;ELc. STATUS OF EQUALITY IN RIGHTS lN THE GOVERNMENT
Cf' CYhi:.::: AS WELL AS IN THE INDEPENDENCE, SOVEREIGNTY, TERR i TOR f t.l INTEGRITY AND NON-AL I GNtv1ENT OF THE REPUBL l C OF
cYPRUS.,
REGA'1DING THE TERRITORIAL ASPECT, I WISH TO REITERATE
THE FOLLOWlNG:-
1 .. Ti;E TURKISH SIDE IS PREPA,:;ED TO START TALKS FOR
THE DETER, lNATION OF THE BOUNDARY LP!E BET\·JEEN THE TWO REGIONS
~·,\-H CH ;,: l ~:.... FORM THE TWO Wt NGS OF THE FEDERAL REP UBL l C OF
CYPRUS, Wt TH t N THE FRAMEWORK OF THr~ BRUSSELS ACCORD.
4. AS TO FORTHCOMING SECCO MEETING, ACFHBISHOP DID NOT EXPECT PROBLEMS FOR EXTENSION OF UNFICYP MANDATE AND ALLUDED, WITHOUT OOl~G INTO DETAILS, TO SOUNDINGS MADE BY HIS FOREIGN MINISTER REGARDtNG SECCO RESOLUTJO~ 367 PARA .. 6. IT WOULD BE DEClDED, HE SAtD, AT TOMORROW'S COUNCIL OF MINISTERS WHETHER CHRlSTOPHlDES WJULD REPRESENT GOV.ERNMENT AT SECCO MEET J NG. ARCHBISHOP ADDED THAT IF CHRISTOPH l DES GOES HE SHOULD DENOUUCE TURl<EY FOR HER ACTIVlTlES IN NORTH OF CYPRUS. ARCHBISHOP WAS AWARE THAT IF CHRlSTOPHlDES WENT TO NEW YORK DENKTASH MIGHT DO THE SAME ..
5. ARCHBISHOP ALSO MENTIONED THAT HE WOULD BE GOING TO THE NON-ALIGNED CONFERENCE IN COLOMBO, BEING HELD 16 TO 19 AUGUST=
·"--"---•-•"---~--·· \I.HILE HE EXPECTED DENKTASH TO BE THERE IT WAS DOUBTFUL THAT HE V.OULD GET SAME RECEPTION AS HE DID AT RECENT lSLAMIC CONFERENCE IN I ST ANBUL.
6. WE BRIEFLY MENTIONED MY NEGOTIATIONS WETH TKCYP SIDE ON IMPLEMENTATION OF DECENBER PROCES-VERBAL CONCERNING UNFICYP'S ROLE lN NORTH AND WE INFORMED ARCHBISHOP THAT IT WAS NOW PROPOSED TO c:n.c~.UDE THESE NEGOT I AT t ON$ AFTER SECCO MEET I NG.
7. CONCLUDING MEETING, ARCHBISHOP ASKED THAT I CONVEY TO SECGEN
\
HI? Be.ST REGARDS AND DEEP. APPRECIATIO~ FOR ALL HE DID FOR CYP~US=
HE KNEW ONLY TOO WELL HOW DIFFICULT SECGEN'S TASK WAS • ...._ _______ ...,.""""'"_ ... ----
COLI 26 1976 805 1. 26 2. 803 3. 25 4. 367 6 5. 16 19 6. 7.••
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NEWYORK•
TO : URQUHART
FROM1 PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATEDc 26 MAY 1976.
NUMBER: UNFICYP 805.
CODE CABLE
1. CALLED ON ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS MORNING 26 MAY. l WAS ACCOMPANIED BY FORCE COMMANDER, WHO WISHED TO PAY HIS RESPECTS AFTER HIS RETURN FROM VISIT ABROAD, AND GORGE.
2. ARCHBISHOP READ IN OUR PRESENCE LETTER QUOTED IN UNF i CYP 803
AND MA;)E POINTS CONTAINED IN THAT CABLE. HE WAS EMPHATIC THAT THERE COULD BE NO DISCUSSION OF TERRITORIAL ISS'JE IN SUB-COMMITTEE
BEf0;1E COMMON GROUND HAD BEEN FOUND AS ENVISAGED AT VIENNA V AND, FOR TH.\T MATTER, IN BRUSSELS P~CES-VERBAL WHICH SPEC lF l ES
THAT ''DETAILS'' WOULD BE DISCUSSED IN SUB-COi'::•llTTEE.
AS TO PHE0E!ICE OF EXPERTS, HE HE ITEPATED BY WAY OF GENERAL REMARK
TrlAT HE HAD N~1 OBJECT I ON l F NEED AROSE TO TURK I SH MA I NL AND
EXPERTS BEING ATTACHED TO TKCYP REPEESENTATiVE, BE IT· IN NICOSIA OR FUTURE VIENNA ROUND, BUT HE DID NOT SEE SAME NEED TO HAVE G'(EEK MA I !JLA~JD ADV I SERS ASS l ST I NG GKCYP REPRESENT AT I VE.
3. ARCHBISHOP REITERATED TH~T HIS SIDE WAS PREPARED TO ATTEND ~~OTHE1 ROUND OF TALKS IN VIENNA IF CONVENED BY SECGEN, BUT -IT HAD TO BE REALISED THAT THERE APPEARED TO BE NO BASIS WHATSOEVER FOR MEANl>JGi-UL DISCUSSIONS, ESPECIALLY SINCE ONAN'S LETTER OF
~ MAY PROVIDES THAT TKCYP TERRITORtAL PROPOSALS CAN ONLY BE MADE IN sur;-coMMlTTEE.. ARCHBISHOP REMARKED THAT ONAN1 S LETTER
SHOWED ONCE AGAIN THAT TURKEWY FOR VARIOUS REASONS, INCLUDING INTERNAL ONES, WAS JUST NOT READY TO MAKE THE NECESSARY TERRtTORIAL CONCESSlONS TO ARRIVE AT SETTLEMENT. i
~ TO: URQUHART
.. FROM: WECKMA~u-Yri~,i,OZ NICOSIA
DATE: 26 MAY 1975 {SENT 261917z RECEIVED 262123z) NUMBER: UNFICYP 833 IMMEDIATE
r
Further UNFICYP 829. 1. Afternoon 26 May Denktash told me that he would
leave for Ankara 3 June and be in Vienna 5 June, although
h! co~ders second p~a!,e o Vienna a ks Fj@IDifJiiz • These Talks may yield no results and this may be embar-rassing for SecGen, he says. He gave two reasons:
AAA. It was doubtful that expert committee -----......-~-------~
wo~.l: I:_~~~~ s~!-~-~ .. <:~9.re!_e, due to d€lay-caused by Stra,(1.bourg hearing, for which he continues to blame GrCyps {UNFICYP 805, para 2)
BBB. Present Tk Government was in no position to
2. Denktash did not know whereabout of Munir and Necati and when they would return to Nicosia. As Munir was indispensable for drafting of paper to be submitted to committee, Denktash couldnot tell roe wben paper :would
'I; ------be ready. 3. Regarding airport joint committee Denktash promised
to designate TkCyp members once G~Cyp representatives were known.
4fPRiORITE 1JNAT !OMS
NEw,or:K•
,. .. URQUHART
NUMBER: UNFICYP 811
CODE CABLE
IN ,,:'. 'P W:2:E1<L Y 1\ND DA IL Y TO EFFECT THAT ACCORD I i'JG TO r , ,_ 1 ~·
(fT ,.,..,,:\ (SWl:DCON) lSRAELI MERCHANT~; WEHE iNVOLVEl~ If, BL···p.;c
LOOTED PHOPERiY IN FAl'•1AGl;::;TA.
2. IM.~EI;:!ATE INVESTIGATION BY CC~,MAND£RS OF ~i.•.'Ef,CON AN[
S.iJE1:C l \/POL F OJND NO EV I DE~ CF OF ~l.iCH ST i,TEMEl~T ~--;VI I·:\) hE Fi
BY lH-J:~· I GY? ME\BER. NEVISPAPF?.S CONCERNE n \·JERE I. ;::CRMED •· ·,
bf WNflCiP M ll:ARY ?10.
J., ISRAEL I BASSADOf~ t;Jt,(. THf N P.LV I SED BY SRSG OF ACT 1 ON i ;,r~fN
SY ~6 S NtC0SiA 78 27 06362•
ETATPR!ORITE Ui'H,T IONS
N£'tJYOHK•
TC .. • UF:"QUH \RT
flt> 1: FEH Z DE CUELLAR
DATED: 27 MAY 1976.
NUMBER~ UNFICYP 812
FURTHER OUR 777 AND 803 ..
CODE CABLE.
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1. ONAN'S LETTER TO ME OF 25 MAY HAVING BEEN MADE PUBLIC 5Y TKCYPS, YOU MAY WISH TO REFER TO ITS SUBSTAt4CE, AS YOU DEEM
APPROPRIATE, lN DRAFT SECGEN'S REPORT TO SECCO AND MAKE RELEVANT INSERTlON AFTER PARA .. 48 ..
2.. PHOTOST.~T IC COPY OF LETTER WAS POUCHED 26 MAY FOR POSS t BLE USE AS ANNEX TO REPORT.
COL: 812 'i:~7 1976 777 803 1. 25 48 2. 26•
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t£WYORK•
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CODE CABLE.
TO : URQUHART
FROM: PEREZ DE ':'UELLAR / PREM CHAND
DATED 27 MAY 1976
NUMBER UNFICYP 813
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1. MORNING 27 MAY, DIRECTOR-GENERAL MINISTRY FOREIGN AFFAIRS HANDED FOUR-PAGE NOTE VERBALE TO SRSG IN WHICH GRAVE EXCEPTION IS TAKEN TO ''CONTINUING AND SYSTEMATIC TURKlFICATlON'' OF NORTH OF J SL/.,!-JD. INTER AL t A, NOTE VERBALE DRAWS ATTENTION TO SPEED
a:-SETTLEMENT FROM TURKISH MAINLAND, NUMBER OF SETTLERS HAVIMG
HEACHED 44,000 AFTER HAV 1t:,;; BEEN 27,000 IN JANUARY 1976, GJAL BEING TO SETTLE iC0,000 MAINLAND TURKS AND THEREBY TO CHANG£ EXISTING POPULATION RATIO.
2. UNFICYP IS UNABLE TO VERIFY NUMBER OF SETTLERS.
3. NOTE VERBALE WILL BE TAKEN BY SRSG TO NEW YORK.
OOL: 813 1. 27 44.ooo 21,000 1976 100,000 2. 3. •
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COLE CABLE
SY35 SS NICOSIA 222 15402 •
ET ATPfh OR lTE
TO GlJYERiUf!(~UHART
FR)M PE~EZ DE CUFLLAR~ NICOSIA DATE 27 MAY 1976 t-41.jMBEP V,i" ,CYP 819 1 M M'E DI A.TE - - -
FURTHER UNFiCYP 818.
1. FIRST MEETING WAS CONDUCTED IN BUSINESS-LIKE AND DIGNIFlED
~,NHER. BO•H !NTERLOCUTORS WERE QU_1CKLY BACK TO QUOTE FIRST ... :'iiL~ME BAS t S UNQUOTE.
~. MATTERS !)!SCUSSED ARE LISTED IN PRESS RELEASE. ALTHOUGH
0lSCUSSION OF G?EEK CYPRIOT EXODUS FROM NORTH WAS INCONCLUSIVE, .CHA~GE OF VIEWS THE~EON WAS USEFUL, PAPADOPOULOS INSISTING
fr ,.:,T HAF<A,. SM ENT i✓AS I. )ESP READ AND ON AN AR!:U l NG THAT Gf~EEK
C ";, 1 l CTS '. :. ,:T SOUTH I-, .ARCHB l SHOP MAKAR I CS• QUOTE LCllJG STf:UGGLE
w ~JJ~E n;~ ~OT GIVE THEM HOPE OF EARLY N01VALIZATICN.
3. AS E~PEt..:TEiJ, ONAN tMFOPMED PAPADOPOULJS THAT IT \\10ULD BE :· F=-, :· 1LT FJR HlM T.:~ ViE[T AGAIN ~;:"FO:?E TURKlSH CYPRIOT ELECTIONS
~-, .. ;,;E AS HE \✓ A:3 f\UNNING CL· 2: R1~,~E FOR .:P SE:titCLN NEVER-
': :-.' __ ·::, Hi; WOULD DO HIS BEST TO Nc~T HIM WIP· GORGE IN ABOUT
4. ,\S GESTURE, ONAN BROUGHT TO LEDRA MEET I NG MERCEDES WHICH
h~D ~ECENTLY BEEN SEIZED BY TURKISH CYPRIOTS AND PAPAD~POULOS ..... ___ ,,~~ .. .,,..~--... --•"-~ lff t v TG f?ETURN TURKISH CYPRIOT PETROL TANKER .. ALSO, ONAN
h '.-. r-c .',; OVER TO PAPADOPOULOS MORE THAN EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS AND
. ; L i .• ,~T{ SE l ZED FROM GREEK CYPRIOTS WrlEN MOVING SOUTH.
5. ~~J YCUR INFORMATION, tT INTERLOCUTORS' REQUEST WE ARE
l<ELf·, G RECG ~.D JF MEET l :r , ,i I CH WI LL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THEM.
CY. !'; .i.9 818 1 " 1 20 4 5
3. WE UNDERSTAND THAT GKCYPS HAD GIVEN SOME CONSIDERATION TO
REQUESTING URGENT MEETING OF SECCO ON MATTER BUT REALISED THAT
IT MIQijT NOT BE APPROPRIATE TO DO SO AS THERE WAS NO lMMEDlATE
DANGER TO INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY AND IN VIEW OF FORTHCOMING
SECCO MEET·ING FOR EXTENSION OF UNFICYP MANDATE. HOWEVER,
PELAQHtAS EXPECTS THAT PLIGHT OF GKCYPS WILL BE DISCUSSED AT
NATO MEETING IN OSLO ON 19/20 MAY.
It. FOR YOUR CONVENIENT REFERENCE, FROM l TO 30 APRIL 322 GKCYPS
WERE EVACUATED, FROM 1 TO 11 MAY 155, GIVING SICE 1 AUGUST
'1975 TOTAL OF 1,671• FOLLOWING VILLAGES WERE RECENTLY TOTA~~
EVACUATED, IN KYRENIA DISTRICT - LAPITHOS, KARAVAS, THERMIA, ~· -<
KAZAPHANI, AYIOS EPIKTITOS, KORMAKITI, DHIORlOS AND MVRTHOU• ~-
IN KARP AS - GASTR I A. .;:-! t
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5. WHILE UNFICYP IS NOT IN POSITION ON ACCOUNT OF RESTRICTIONS
IMPOSED ON IT TO INVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS OF &LL TREATMENT AND
HARASSMENT, IT IS REASONABLE TO ASSUME FROM CONTINUED EXODUS.
fF GK~YPS AND LARGE-SCALE SIGNING OF APPLICATIONS TO GO SOUTH.
THAT CASES OF SUCH ILL-TREATMEFT AND HARASSMENT ARE FREQUENT•
THERE IS ALSO GENERAL REAL I ZAT I 01~ AMONG GKCYPS IN NORTH THAT
11:fERE IS NO FUTURE FOR THEM DUE TO LACK OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES,
<:MN MEDICAL SERVICES. VIRTUAL ABSENCE OF FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT, ETC.
6. DOCUMENTS QUOTED IN UNFICYP 729 APPEAR TO US BASICALLY
FACTUAL AND CORRECT AND ARE GENERALLY CONSISTENT WlTH
INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO UNFtCYP.
EMDALL•
SY 21. S NICOSIA 330 12 08152•
ETATPRIOR le
I.NATIONS
NEWYORK•
CODE CABLE.
10 1 GUYER/ UQRUHART
FROM1 PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATED1 12 MAY 1976
NUMBER1 UHFICVP 728.
1. PELAIHIAS AT MEETING 12 MAY, ALSO ATTENDED BY GORGE,
EXPRESSED TO ME HIS GOVERNMENTS DEEP CONCERN OVER UNABATED FLOW
a= GKCYPS FROM NORTH TO SOUTH.
2. HE INFORMED US THAT HE WAS IN PROCESS OF HANDING NOTE VERBAL~
TO REPRESENrATIVES HERE OF PERMANENT MEMBERS OF SECURITY COUNCIL,
0: THE NINEP OF NON-ALIGNED AND ARAB CQUNTRlES. NOTE VERBALE DATED
11 MAY WAS ALSO HANDED TO ME, TOGETHER WITH MEMORANDUM. IN
VIEW OF WIDE CIRCULATION GIVEN TO ABOVE DOCUMENTS, THEY
ARE TRANSMITTED TO YOU BY CLEAR CABLE, UNFICYP 729.
SY 22 S NICOSIA 38 12 08212•
ErATPRtORITE
lMAT I OMS •
NEWYORK•
TO I GUYER/ URQUHART
FROM1 PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATEDa 12 MAY 1976.
NUMBER: UNFICYP 730.
FURTHER UNFICYP 715~
CODE CABLE.
AS RESULT OF STEPS TAKEN BY PAPADOPOULOS WITH EDITORS
I OONCERNED, CRITIC I SM IN DA I LY PRESS HAS STOPPED.
ENDALL•
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CODE CABLE
SY33 FFF NICOSIA 16113 11492 1
ETAT
lftATtONS
NEWYORK a T01 FIELDSERV NEWYOR INFO SCHUMACHER UNEF
.:-:. FROM1 DUNN NI COS 1., DATE: 13 MAY 1976
NUMBER1 UNFlCYP 735
1. FOLLOWING COMMUNICATION RECEIVED FROMEUNEF1 QUOTE UN NEW
YORK HAS AGREED TO ALLOW CANAD I AN_. ENTERTAINMENT TROUP TO TRAVa
TO CYPRUS VIA UN BUFFALO AIRCRAFT. DESIRED DATE IS 27 JUNE
AND WILL REQUIRE TWO .BUFFALO FWIGHTS FROM __ TEL AVIV ARRIVING
AKROTIRl OR ~ARNACA 1010 GMT AND 1410 GMT. REALIZE TMAT AKROTlRl
tl>RMALMH NON-OPERATIONAL ON SUNDAY HOWEVER REQUEST YOU
DETERMINE _I_F AN EXCEPTION CAN BE MADE TO ACCEPT THESE FLIGHTS
ON 17 ~UNE. FAILING THAT WILL REQUIRE CLEARANCES FOR LARNACA.
ADV l SE •
. t»iQUOTE.
2. CONSIDER THAT UK AUTHORITIES SHOULD NOT BE REQUESTED TO AGAIN MAK£ AN EXCEPT.tON FOR ~EASONS OUTLINED IN LETTER 11 MAY
PqUCHED WITH. AR 76/20 12 MAY. C I A D Al TC'Dt..l IIT I ltC'I V C::-lll'!>nC'OT
,.
COi£ CABLE
SY34 SSS IICOSll 108 14 084-7? 1
lTATPIIOIITE
••Ttows EWYORK 1
101 IUYER/IIQUMART ~
PION! ~EREZ IE CUELLAR IATE1 14 MAY 1976
.. VMIEIED
.. fUITifEI NY UIIUIOERD OF 7 ARD 11 MAY • . , '
··aarcs ·c ·wet· r d... Cf1
DISTRIBUTION Secretary-General
□. . ~yer
D D Tang 0 Shevchenko 0 Suy
_...ertrrquhart □ Ryan □ 0 Liu O Koho O Lansky O Jackson
□-----□-----
i. SINCE.OI tlE NAIi MATTERS All IIOT MOVINQ II DESIRED DIRECTION . ,,,
•1 ON OTHER IOTH PARTIES SEEN TO WISI TG ~Ufi IESPONSIBILJTY • AS TO WHAT To· Jt NEXT TO IECRETARY-IENERAL, HIS OllSERYATlON . '
J~ FtlTHCOMlHG REPORT ·Tl SICCO NAY IE 8F cauc.tAL 1...+ANCE.
I. IT tcCVIS TO Ml TMAT IF. YOU WI SN ~E TO ASSIST t• PUTTIIG . .
PIIAL TOUCHES 81 TNAT CN4l'Tlll t CGULD., IF SECRET ARY-8111£RA1.
•sfHIS . IT APPROPRIATE, lRIIYE AT YOttl HEADQUARTERS WEEKEND . _,.,__..---~---"-
• I JD MAY. ·· --------····· . ■DALL
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l ' SY10 SSS NICOSIA 251 18 10592 t
El AT?R IOR ITE
'NEWYORK ·1 INCOMING CODE CABLE
T01 GUYER/URQUHART
FROM1 PEREZ DE CUELLAR/PREM CHAND
DATE1 18 MAY 1976
NUMBER: UNFICYP 756
FURTHER UNFtCYP 714, 728 AND 729.
l c,
1. ATTRITION OF 6KCYP POPULATIOH UI NORTH CONTINUES AT HIGH itATE.
SINCE 1 MAY 1976, 242 HAVE MOVED SOUTH. OF THESE 116 WERE FROM
KYRENIA AREA WHERE NOW ONLY 279 GKCYPS REMAIN, WITH 234 IN
BELLAPAIS. 126 HAVE LEFT KARPAS WHERE POPULATION IS DOWN TO
7,311. TOTAL OF 820 HAVE LEFT NORTH SINCE 1 MARCH 1976 AND EtGHT
VILLAGES HAVE BEEN DEPOPULATED OF GKCYPS IN PERIOD.
2. THERE ARE NOW NO REPEAT NO WHOLL V GKCYP VILLAGES IN KARP.I\$
WiERE FORMERLY THERE WERE SEVENTEEN. BELLAPAIS IS ONLY WHOLLY
Q<CYP VILLAGE IN NORTH. OREK, AT 17 MAY MEETING, SPOKE OF
!J<CYPS BEING NOW IN QUOTE MIXED VILLAGES UNQUOTE.
3. FREQUENT REPORTS BE I NG R~£E I VED OF I NT t MI DAT I ON, HARASSt-'1:NT
AND PHYSICAL ILL-TREATMENT WHICH UrlFICYP CANNOT JNVEST&GATt. ~-,,·--",.-.. ,·,.~------
IECAUSE OF RESTRAINT ON MOVEMENT. MANY GKCYPS ASSERT THAT THEY ARE COERCED INTO SIGNIHG APPLICATIONS= OTHERS LEAVE BEC:.u;:.::
THEY DESPAIR OF THEIR LIVING CONDITIONS. UN BELIEVES l''1AJQ.:UTY
W>ULD STAY IN THEI~ HOM~S IF LIVING CONDITIONS WERE TOLERABLE. 4. SF.RtOUSLY CONCERHED AT DCNWARD TREND IN GKCYP POPULAT~O~·I
AND CONTINUING DAILY EVACUATIONS. UNLESS TREND ARRESTE:D
BELIEVE ENTIRE GKCYP POPULATION IN KYRENIA WILL t-ll,VE LEFT --~-,-··---""••~••·~•~- ,, , •~ . _, ,v_,..,.. ------ •- . -
WITHIN ONE MONTH Af.lD MANY L')CATIOtJS WITH SMALL GKCYP POPULATIONS --~--~--'---------- --cc·---IN KARPAS EMPTIED WITHIN NEXT THREE MONTHS. ENDALL
ZCZC UN.UI
Sftl (UNFICYP) sss NICOSIA 470 11 oao-. El'ATPRIORITi
•ATIOI' EVYORK•
181 CltJYER/URQUHART
FIOM! r,aEZ I~ ;UELLAR
MTlt 11 MAY 1976
UIIUIBEIID
1IUI UNIUNBi1£D OF 7 IAY • . , .
I..'.
.. 1. LAST WEEK IT WAS AIIEED WITH PAPADOPOULOS THAT I WOIJI.D
• .. ~. • >
• ~
CILL N HIM A"ERNOON 10 MAY. I DID SO TOGETHER WITK GORGE • . .
1111118 CMUISE OF DtSCUSStON PAPADOPOULOS VOLUNTEERED FOLLOWINI
IIIFORMATIOI AND CLARIFICATIONS&
(A) OIi ACCOUNT OF PRESSURES EMANATING FROM VARIOUS QUARTERS
■ ASKED MAIAIIOS LAST WEDNESDAY WHETHER THERE WAS ANY POSSIBILITY
• IINOVINQ SEC8EN~S IANE FRON TERRITORIAL CLAUSE IN GKCYP
lllltlTTTEN PROPOSALS. AICNJISHOP WA~ MOST ADAMANT ANP. REJECTED
CATEIORICALLY ANY SUCH SUGQESTION. APART FROM TNIS•
PAPADOPOULOS SEUIED TO RULE OUT ALSO OTttER IMPROVEMENTS ltl " . ' ~
l&RRITORIAL CLAUSE ON WHICH TURKISH SIDE INSISTS. SUCI AS ..
-~E PRECISE PROPOSALS ACCOMPANIED BY MAP VITH DELINEATION. (I) COIVOIN6 OF SIXTN ROUID II YIERIIA WOULD ONLY IE
JflSTtFID IF PRIOR TO M£ETlN6 TURKISH, SIDE WERE TO SUMIT COICRETI
a:& NEMllGFUL tualTORlAL PROPOSALS. ll1ILI PROILEM REYOLvtl
MOUND TIRRITOIY ANI IT WILD MAIE II SEISE TO TACKLE C:Ol.~TITUTIONAL
Cll£S1'1111S WITHOUT HAVIII FOUID CONNON QRO•D 811 GEOGRAPHY.
&.so. Hts SIDE IIOtl..D NOT Wl~H M£ETIIQ Ill YIEIINA MERELY
TO ASSESS PRESENT SITUATION• SUCN EXERCISE veul.D AMOUNT
;JAIII ~ ~;;, Nrifi+fi &I t;,J NO VVNi i iWIWW ¥ ♦ MWO0&W i W ♦i4 ::,u::,
PARA. 6. UCYPS WERE VISUAL IS 1118 MRE PRECISE ROLE FOR SECCO.
EITNEI BY HAYING S8ME IF ITS MEMIERS ~ONSTITUTl SPEC:IAL .. COtuUnili
•• IF .THAT $MOULD NOT PROVE POSSIBLE. TO NAVE ADVISERS~
EITHER IRAIII FROM 8ECC8 IIENIERS OR FROM OTHER COUITRIES•
A1TACID TO 11rm.. IT WU t~UIEI ~• USE .,_ 1UC8 IIEETIN
FOi TIIIS PUIPQSE, MAIi.i IUIE •W£YEI TN.AT •• .._UTIOI
IXTEIJUII ·••cYP•s NAUATE BE AIOPTO fllST. AS DISCUSSJOI·
CII PROPOSO NO•tflCATIOI 8F RESILUTI• 367PARA.61118111'
TAKE TINE.
t. UOYE . STIEIITNEIS IEL I EF • EXPRESSED II NY UlllalEIED
F 7 MAY, _TNAT AICIIIIIIOP IS TUBIII AWAY FIOII YIEIIA
TALKS All, IIITEAI. IS .L~l.1.18 FOi WINI PARTICIPATIII
II IEIDT I AT 118 ,aacEss~ t. E. . WAT IE CM.LS QNTE
IIT-ATINALISATIN • ..,.,. AT SMII TINE H l!IAY VtSI Tl
■AU Alli.lat SIC8D QIITE IIISIELS •"'1'1 All IEIIRI' CYPIUS
PIOII..D, F1811 ATRIS/AIIAIA C8111'11TIDI, ESPECIALLY OYER
EIEAI.
3. IICYP Ill.Al ARI IOT ID. AS YII ARE AWARE. II OIi ·
Fl• OR ANTIii TIEY lfEIE TALIB ANUT PRIOI Tl ANPTI•
• SEC~ IISOLUTIOI "'7. ALL TIIS EXPLAIIS ALS8 U.RTAII
IIIIARKS. PIZZLIH ll VIEW OF PREVIOUS 8KCYP STAii. NOE
11 US LAST WW IY PEU8HIAS WIIO IS KNIii TO IAYI AUIIISIIP'S
EAR, NIITIII THAT WAT NAY IE NEEDED NOV WAS A QUOTE
■.UIII NEIIATOR 8QUOTE.
It. HAYE IOT IAISD ALL POIITS II YOUR UIIUMIEID OF 7 NAY . !
WITN PAPOOPOLOS. AS SUIIISTD IY YOU, I SMALL IIV.IElrl
SDIJIE f'I/F TIEii WITII CIIIISTOPIIJES IPII NIS RETUB All LATER WITH
MtCNII.SHGP.+
aL 11 1976 7 1 10 367 13 1,1, 313 6 3'l 6 7 367 7 ++
· --=-. :s:::a -< . ....... 0,
.SY6 S NICOSIA 44 10 1017Z •
ETP
lr:JATIOt~S
.,v -
tfJFICYP 715
T01 URQUHART
FROMf PEREZDECUELLAR . .. . .. "' . ~ '
BATEa 10-5-76 - . ,, ,-,.. l
!ilUt<U3ERt UMFICYP 715 ,:, ·,, 'II
,..~ ~ .. ~ ' , .. _. l
~UR 342 PARA 1.
CODE CABLE
flU'-
1. fEEEEEE REGRETTABLY THERE WAS FURTHER CRITICISM IN SOME DAILIES ''
@JER \iEEKEND AS YOU WILL NOTE FROM PRESS SUMMARY.
2. WE CONTINUE OUR ENDEAVOURS TO PUT END TO I.T • ENDIT
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FROM:
NUMBER::
CODE MESSAGE
URQUHM1T
PEREZ DE CUELLAR/BEATTIE
8 Mi\Y 1976
UNF I GYP 701.I;.
1. . . " .. ·· .
SUGGEST THAT DRAFT SECGEN ~EPORT FOR PERIOD DECEMBER :· . , ' '
75/ JUNE 76 . BE¾ POUCH
2. PLEASE.CON~lRM
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SY61 S NICOSIA 81 8 08302 =
E.TATPR I OR I TE
UNAT IONS NYK =
TO:
DATE:
NUMBER::
CODE MESSAGE
URQUHART
PEREZ DE CUELLAR-
8 MAY 1976
UNF I GYP 705 ·
. _FURTHER UNFI CYP 66 AND YOUR 325 PARA. 1.
..
1. DENKTASH LEAVES NOW FOR ISTANBUL MO~DAY 10 NAY.
~ UNFORTUNATELY IT HAS NOT\BEtN POSSIBLE T0 1 ARRANGE
FOR LEDR-A' 'MEETING BEFOHE HI s DEPARTURE AS ONAN HAS. NOT'
BEEN AVAILABLE •• HOLDING OF MEETING WILL NO~✓ HAVE TO
·~vl\ l T UNTIL DEN KT ASH RETURNS AROUND VlEEKEND 22-23 MAY +
END;\LL +.
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2. ON 3 MAY RECEIVED .FOLLOWING ANS\Jr.:H PHOM LYSSARIDES SIGNED PRESIDENT EDE}< SOCUiLIST PARTY OF CYPBUS: :JUOTE I WISH TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR LETTEH DATED MAY 7, 1976. I UOULD \ALSO BE VERY GRt'\TEFUL IF YOU WOULD TRANSMIT MY REMARKS
0
0N THE UN' CHETAHY-GENERJ\LS'S MESSAGE.
I HOPE THAT IT IS A TYPING OMISSION OR ERROR IN THAT THE MESSAGE REFERS TO THE HETURN (~UOTE OF HEFUGEES UNQUOTE HATHEH THAN OUOTE THE REFUGEES UNQUOTE. THE SAME HOLD$ THUE FOR THE FOREIGN THOOPS.
THERE IS 1\PPl\RENTL Y A MISUNDERf;T AND I NG· HEGARu I [JG THE NON-NEGOTIABILITY OF THE RIGHT OF THE REFUGEES TO HETUHN /HJD THE PURSUANCE OF THE NEGOTIATING PHOCESS TO ACHIEVE THE HETlJRN OF ALL THE REFUGEES. THIS RIGHT OF R URN WAS ACCEPTED AS BEING NON-NEGOTIABLE BY THE UNITED NATIONS R ESOL UT IONS.
I AM /\LSO \/EHY SURPHI D TO NOTE THAT THE SECRETARY-GENERAL'~; SSAGE STATE~-:; THAT DURING THE VIENNA TALKS r~uOTE THE PROBLEM OF THE HEFUGEES WJ\3 1)ISCUSSED IN THE CONTEXT OF THE TEHRITORil\L M~PECT Uf,Jl~UOTE. I HAVEN'T THE POSSIBILITY OF REMARKING ON LHIS AS I WAS NOT PRESENT DUR ING THE TALKS. I CAN, HOlJEVER, ASSURE YOU THAT NOTHING OF THE SORT WAS REPORTED TO THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WHICH I AM A MEMBER. FURTHER, I WOULD WANT TO REFUTE THE REFERENCE TO A LINK BEING Q:.iOTE MAINTAINED IN THE PROPOSALS HECENTLY SUBMITTED ON THAT SUBJECT UN!~UUTE. IF YOU HEFEFI TO THE PROPOSALS OF THE GHEE!< CYPHIOT SIDE, NO SUCH LINK WAS ACCEPTED. ON THE CONTRARY THEY CATEGORICALLY STATE THAT Fon At~Y SOLUTION, THE RIGHT or,· ALL REFUGEES TO RETURN IS A NECESSARY PREROGATIVE. THE PROPOSALS HAVE NO\J BEEN PUBLISHED AND I AM CERTAIN THAT THIS IS THE CONCLUSI0!4 OF ALL READERS;-
I BELIEVE THAT A CLEAR ST ;\T EME NT ON THE NON- !JEGOT I ABLE HIGHT OF ALL HEFUGEES TO HETURN TO THEIR HOMES WOULD RESTORE THE CONfIDENCE OF OUH PEOPLE IN THE UNITED NATIONS AND WOULD l3E OF GREAT BENEFIT TO THE CAUSE SERVED BY THE lJ • N • 3. HAVE TM(EN NUMBEH OF APPROPRIATE ~;TEPS TO DISCOURAGE FURTHER POLEMICS. ENDALL
SY62 S NICOSIA 573 B 0946Z =
ET AT PH I OR IT E UN.-!\T IOt~S NY!<=
TO:
FROM:
DATE:
NUMaER :
Uf\iJUH/\HT
Pt:HEZ DE CUELLAR
3 MAY 15176
utff I CYP 708
FURTHE!l YOUR 335 AND UfJFICYP 691.
1. ON 7 Mi\Y Sl~iff FOLL()l,JING LETTER TO LYSSI\RIDE:S: QUOTE THE SECRET 1-'\RY-GE I\L, 'vJHU r:; IN NAIHOBI, HAS ASKEJ ME IN H EFC:R ENCE TO YOUH ME::;~:;1\GE TO HIM TO CONVEY TO YOU THE FOLLOWING CLARI~ICATIUN •.
AFTER HIS SPEECH BEFORE THE PMU. IAMl~NTAHY ASSE!'JULY OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE IN STRASBO!JHG ON 4 ~ii-\Y 1976, THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ANSWERED QUESTIONS BY MEMBERS OF THE ASEMBL Y, /\ND LATER BY MEMDERS OF THE PHESS.
WITH BE'3l\Ht) TO THE RETURf~ OF REFUGcES, THE SECRETAHYGENERAL Nl\TURt~LLY OPERATJ<:S WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF EXISTING UN RESOLUTIONS WHICH INTER ALIA CALL FOR THE RETUHN OF REFUGEES AND WITHDRAWAL OF FOREIGN THOOPS. THE DEST PH ACT ICAL COUHSE OPEN TO THE SEGRETARY-GENERAL UNDER THOSE HEOLUTIONG IS TO PURSUE THE NEGOTIATING PHOCESS UNDEH THE MISSION OF GOOD OFFICES ENTHUSTED TO Hlfl IN THE rn::;ou.JTIPNS. DURING THE VIENNA TALKS ON CYPRUS, INCLU0ING THE FIFTH
ROUND HELD IN FEBRUARY 1976 , THE PROBLEM OF REFUGEES WAS DI3CUSS[u IN THE CONTEXT OF THE TEr?RITORIAL M;PECT OF A SETTLEMENT Of THE CYPRUS ~10BLEM, AND THIS LINK IS M/\INT.t\INED IN THE PHOPOSALS HECENTLY SUDMITTED ON THAT
<l3JE CT • UNlrnOT E.
SY 50 S NI COS I A 654 07 10442•
ETATPRIORITE ~ATI Oft
NEWYORK.;,
TO r URQUHART .
• FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATED 7 MAY 1976.
~NUMBERED
CODE CABLE.
ISTRIBUTION Secretary-General
o· ~uyer
□ Tang D Shevchenko □ Suy ·
~rquhart D Ryan
□· □ ,Liu
Koho Lan:sky
D ·Jackson
□--"------
FURTHER MY UNNUMBERED OF 28 APRIL PARA. 9 AND SECGENS UNNUMBERED
, CF SAME DATE PARA.5 •
. 1 ..
IESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS.
2. ALTHOUGH BOTH SIDES PROFESS TO FAVOUR RESUMPTION OF TALKS
lfiDER SECGEN'S AUSPICES, THEY ARE NOT DISPOSED TO-PAVE WAY TO
SIXT~ ROUND IN VIENNA• ON CONTRARY, THEY ALMOST DAILY ERECT NEW
,
l I
i.HICH PLEASES LEFT WINQ CIRCLES SER£ AND ALSO SOCIALIST C • • M' -- -~.-~-: • ....-,-;:,..,.._,..__:,.,>.:'.' ,• ••..--r•-~--:........,:: .,,-,< •-:;-··•••· .~•-•~'.';_':;';•~••.:,,_.: •-•:::-:"'"• :• " ,. ,,._,_,.,~•,,:1~77•~,•::•
IS L I NK ED W l TH T I LT TO LEFT IN J ITEIIAl.. PiLlTJ C:S•t
VOTE IN HOUSE WH rca ALMOST REMOVED. CLEllllltf,: .
·<15 ro ;1s> WAS AL~NG , , IDEo~os,cAL'; b·,,,Es ;~:.:'a.Wi?'11,,• . tF LEFT.
5~ RESPONDING TO PRESSURES, INCLUDING REPRESENTATION HAPE BY
SAUVAGNARGUES TO CHRISTOPHIDES· EARLIER THIS WEEK IN PARIS, .- ,
OOVERNMENT PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE IS'SUED STATEMENT QUOTED IN
l.MFICYP 670. THIS IS AS FAR AS GKCYPS WILL GO• SPECIFICALLY
THEY ARE NOT WILLING TO REMOVE SECGEN'S NAME FROM .TERRITORIAL
Q.AUSE IN THEIR WRITTEN PROPOSALS. NOW THAT SECGEN IS MENTIONED
I~ IT GKCYPS HAVE WHAT THEY CONSIDER POTENT ARGUMENT FOR KEEPING IT,.
NAMELY THAT ITS REMOVAL WOULD CONCEDE FUNDAMENTAL POINT TO TURKISH ' '
SIDE THAT SECGEN IS NOT SUPPOSED TO PLAY ANY ROLE AT ALL, • . ' I
I
NOT EVEN PROCEDURAL, IN TALKS.
6. FOR.TURKISH SIDE STATEMENT IN UNFICYP 670 IS COMPLETELY ' '
l.NACCEPTABLE AND HAS PROVOKED IMMEDIATE ~ESPONSE, NAMELY LETTER
FROM ONHAN TO ME DATED' MAY (UNFiCYP 680)., FOR .HER.OWN REASONS
llJRKEY IS EQUALLY NOT INTERESTED IN EARLY SIXTH ROUND AND PREF.ERS
TO WAIT NUMBER OF DEVELOPMENTS, ESPECIALLY FATE IN CONGRESS
a= HER MILITARY DEFENCE AGREEMENT WlTH U.,~. ANKARA HAS TOLD ' , '
WASHINGTON IN CLDAR LANGUAGE TMAT TN ERE. WOIJLJ IE 10 N8Vl ~- , Jr.<' , . , , , : ' '. · ~ ,'..' /'~f"'-';I
CYPRUS AS LONG .AS ,MILITARY AGREEMENT QUES'T'lOR VAS NOT RESOLVh~ '
lMEREFORE, THERE IS NO LIKELIHOOD WHATSOEVER THAT TIIRK I $H ·stti . , , t- ' • :· • • , :,;_: ,¼ ">'"'"
ISSUE. DENKTASH AND INHAtf HAVE MADE f T VERY CLEAR TMlT MERE ' ' •)
' DELETION OF.SECGEN'S NAME FROM GKCYP TERRITORIAL FORMULA
iDULD NOT SUFFICE AND THAT THEIR SIDE INSISTS ON REASONABLE
CONCRETE PROPOSALS FROM THE OTHER SIDE WHICH SHOULD BE SHOWN
<Jf MAP WITH PRECISE DELINEATION. THIS GKCYPS SAY THEY WILL
SY 49 S NICOSIA 66 07 0912Z=
ETATPRIORtTE
UNAT IONS
NEWYORI<=
CODE CABLE
TO : GUYER/ URQUHART
FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR/ BEATTIE
DATED: 7 MAY 1976
NUMBER UNF l CYP 696
--------------
THANK.YOU FOR YOUR 336.
1. GIST.OF PARA. 4 OF 674 CONVEYED TO OREK BY GORGE
MORN I NG 7 MAY ..
~ OREK WILL NOW CONFER WITH HIS SIDE BUT HE EXPECTS,
, .
AS HE PUT IT, EXCITEMENT OVER TWICE-WEEKLY LIAISON VISITS
AND MAlNTENANCE OF TJIKLOS CAMP.=
COL: 696 336 1. 4 674 7 2. ==
ETATPf<IORITE
UNAT IONS
NEWYORK=
TO . .. URQUHART
CODE CABLE
FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR/ BEATTIE
DATED : 7 MAY 1976
1· NUMBER UNF I GYP 695 i
1. · YOU~ 337 NOTED. AS STATED lN UNFICYP 375,
SRSG SOUNDED OUT CHRISTOPHIDES OVER NORWEGIAN MEDICAL CONTINGENT
OOLYo BELIEVE HE WHOULD BE TOLD UPON HIS RETURN TO ISLAND
THAT INCLUSION OF NOHvJEG I AN MIL i T ARY CONT I NGENT IS NO\v CONTEMPLATED •
COL: 695 1. 375 2. ===
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TO . • URQUHART Eftl ·.,,.,. 1 5
Fl-WM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR/ BEATTIE
DATED: 7 MAY 19(6.
NUMBER: UNFICYP 694
-----------........
1. ON 3 MAY 1976 TURKISH FORCES STARTED TO IMPROVE
E\vST-EAST PATROL Tf(ACK RUNNING FROM GH \!JD 023 909
(NORTHEAST OF BOX FACTORY) AT PANO ZODHIA). -
TO\•IAHDS GR WD 052 922 ( SOUTHEAST OF KATO lWP I A). WORK
INVOLVES GRADER-DOZER AND TRACK IS AT LEAST SIX METRES WIDE.
IN PLACES IT IS AT LEAST 20 METRES FORWARD OF
~
TURi< I SH FDL. \vORK CONT I NUED IN SP I TE OF REPEATED UN PROTESTS.
\',ORK APPEARS TO BE CONTROLLED AT HIGH LEVEL AND A COLONEL
PECARLAYAN WAS AT SCENE ON MORNING OF 6 MAY REPORTEDLY
NOW CO-ORDINATING ACTIVITY .. WE UNDERSTAND HOWEVER THAT
COMMANDER TURKISH FORCES~ GUNERt, IS NOT ON ISLAND
--~-~T-~R E SENT TI M~E::;; "::. ... ---,,----.-,-~-~-,--T-----_,,_-;c- _________ , ___ ,.-...,.,_ ______ __,__ ____ _
d Lii2&i&Jii:2,A.§iji!jitit£?;;.iutidl
i: f ~ AT TIME OF DRAF1 tNG, DIGGING HAD CEASED ON ORDER
FROM COS TURKISH FORCES BUT THERE IS POSSIBILITY THAT TURKISH
FORCES INTEND TO ATTEMPT TO CUT CORNER AND CONNECT AVLONA
TO l<ATO KOPIA BY LEVELLING TRACI< ON LINE OF DISUSED RAILWAY '
GR \'JD 058 922 TO GR tvD 084 917.. vJE ARE T Al< I NG APPROPRIATE
MEASURES TO DETER ANY SUCH MOVE.
~ NEGOTIATIONS PROCEEDING= YOU MAY WISH TO DRAW
TURKlSH MISSION'S ATTENTlON TO MATTER.=
COL: 694 1. 3 1976 023 909 052 922 20 2. 058 922 084 917 3.=
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CODE CABLE.
TO .. .. URQUHART / FIELDSERV
FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR/ BEATTIE/ DUNN
DATED: 7 MAY 1976
NUMBER: UNF I GYP 693 IMMEDIATE
YOUR 3290
' 1. WE HAVE PLACED REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL OPENING OF AKROTIRI
(TO FACILITATE ACCEPTANCE OF DANISH ROTATION FLIGHTST AT 0100
G·ff ON 10, 17 AND 24 MAY) ~JITH HQ BRITISH FORCES CYPRUS.
AS CONTROL OF ADDITIONAL OPENING OF AIRFIELD IS EXERCISED BY
COMMAND IN UK, HQBF HAS REFERRED THE QUESTION TO LONDON AND
WE NOW UNDERSTAND THAT QUEST t ON IS UNDER URGENT EXAM-tNAT tON B'r,_,_,:,,,;;,~~ ,j,,_
fvOD UI< AND FOREIGN AND COMMONWEAL TH OFF I CE LONDON.
~ WE ARE HOPEFUL OF FAVOURABLE OUTCOME OF OUR REQUEST,
ESPECIALLY AS YOU HAVE GIVEN THE UK PERMREP A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING '
CODE CABLE
X-SY33 (UNFtCYP) SSS NICOSIA 64 05 1652=
ET ATP R I OR l TE
UNATIONS
NHJYORK=
I M M E D I A T E
· TO :: URQUHART
FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATE: 5 MAY 1976
NR. . UNF I CYP 681
PARA ONE. LETTER QUOTED IN 680 HANDED TO GORGE BY ONAN EVENING
5 MAY WITH REQUEST THAT TEXT BE· CONVEYED TO PAPADOPOULOS.
PARA TWO. AS LETTER IS BEING MADE PUBLIC BY TKCYP SIDE, IT
IS SENT TO YOU lN CLEAR.
PARA THREE. TEXT BEtNG GIVEN TO PAPADOPOULOS TO-NIGHT.+
· COL 5 1976·681. 680 5 ++
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ETATPRIORITE
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C O D E C A B L &
TO : URQUHART
FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATE: 6 MAY 1976
NUMBER UNFlCYP 683
1 .. WOULD APPREClATE RECEIVING SUMMARY OF SECGEN'S
STATEMENT.TO PRESS IN STRASBOURG.
2. LOCAL PRESS IS GIVING WHAT APPEARS TO BE INCOMPLETE ACCOUT
OF ABOVE.
~ ACCORDING TO LOCAL PRESS, LYSSARIDES, MEMBER OF NATIONAL
COUNCIL, REFEF<R I NG TO UUUNNN RE SOL UT I ON G,~LL ING FOR RETURN OF . flEFUGEES \rJ I THOUT CONDITIONS, HAS PROTESTED TO SECGEN ABOUT
QUOTE THAT PART OF HIS STATEMENT IN STRASBOUHG LINKING RETURN
OF HEFUGEES TO THEIR HOMES \1 l TH POL IT I CAL SETTLEMENT UNQUOTE.
HARAVGHI, MOUTH-PIECE OF AKEL COMMUNIST PARTY AND OTHER
G(CYP DAILIES ARE ALSO CRITICAL ABOUT ALLEGED STATEMENT.+
COL. 6 1976 683 1 2 3 ++
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FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR
DATED: 7 MAY 1976
NUMBER: UNFICYP 691.
~
CODE CABLE
THANK YOU FOR DET/\tLS IN YOUR 335. PROCEEDING IMMEDIATELY
AS DIRECTED IN PARAGRAPHS 3 At~D 5= LETTER IS BE I NG SENT BY ME
TO LYSSARIDES CONVEYING CLARIFICATION IN PARAGRAPH 3.=
COL: 69'1 335 3 5 3 ===
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lMMED I ATE.
UNFICYP 674 CODE CABLE
TO:
FROM:
DATE:
URQUHART
PEREZDECUELLAR/BEATTIE
5-5-76
NUMBER: UNFICYP 674
FURTHER Ufff I CYP 627.
1. ON 3 MAY AT MEETING WITH GORGE, OREK COMMENTED
AS FOLLO\rJS ON DRAFT LIST OF CURRENT UNFICYP PRACTICES IN
NORTH POUCHED TO YOU ON 28 APRIL:
RE.A.1 SECOND SENTENCE. ID CARDS SHOULD BE PRODUCED
AT CHECKP.O I NTS BY ALL UNF I CYP MEMBERS AND NOT BY DR I VER ONLH .. ,
CHANGE OF CURRENT PRACTICE HAD BECOME NECESSARY AS THERE
WERE INDICATIONS OF ORGANIZED INFILTRATION INTO TURl<ISH
CONTROLLED AREA.
RE A.2(C). NICOSIA-NEW FAMAGUSTA ROAD TO REMAIN OPEN
TO TEN UN VEB I CLES EACH DAY, I.E. 5 IN EP.CH
DIRECTION., SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS TO BE MADE FOR UNFICYP
CIVILIAN PERSONNEL TRAVELLING OFF DUTY.
·· RE A.2(D). CROSSING POINT ON NICOSIA-XEROS ROAD TO i3E
THROUGH PANO ZODHIA ONLY.
RE A.3(A) GATES. ONLY THREE CORRSING POINTS ON TURKISH
FDL TO BE OPEN FOR NORMAL ENTRY AND EMERGENCY UNFICYP
. HELICOPTER FLIGHTS. REMAINING GATES TO BE USED ONLY AFTER
~ ON 4 MAY SRSG AND SPA TOLD DENKTASH THAT ABOVE,
IF IMPLEMENTED, WOULv CREATE UNBALANCED SITUAT,~~,
DI FF l CULT FOR UNF l CYP TO JUST I FY. BECAUSE DDJl<T ASH AND OREl<
CONDUCT THESE NE GOT I AT IONS ON BEHALF OF TURI< I SH FORCES AND
CANNOT ON THE 1 R 01!/N ENG,i\GE IN ' 'GI VE AND TAKE'',
DENKTASH SUGGESTED THAT WE SUBMIT FRESH PROPOSALS ON FAIR
''QUID PRO QUO'', BUT CAUTIONED THAT EXCHANGE
OF LETTERS I MPLEMEMTJ NG P110CES-VERBAL SHOULD BE SIGNED BEFOHE
UNE SECCO MEET I NG.
~ SUBJECT TO YOUR APPROVAL AND MODIFICATIONS ~E COULD
PROPOSE FOLLOW I MG: UNF l CYP TO VJ I THDR1\,l;J POSTS LI STl:D IN
PARA. 5 OF UN COUNTER-PROPOSALS (UNFtCYP 600 PARA. 5)
BUT NOT REPEAT NOT FROM T d ! t<LOS PFiOV I DED THAT
, (A) UNFICYP CAN CA~RY OUT LIAISON VISITS AT-LOCAL
LEVEL TWICE WEEKLY AND THAT THIS IS SPELLED OUT IN EXCHANGE
Of LETTERS. (SUCH VISITS EVERY THREE OR FOUR DAYS
v.OULD BE IMPORT1\NT SINCE BESIDES LASI\SSON TEAM CHJTRE IN KARPAS
THERE WOULD BE NO REPEAT NO OTHEH LPS, NEITHER IN
KARPAS THER IN KARPAS NOR IN KYRENIA AREAS.
(B) SPECIAL HUMANITARIAN VISITS WOULD TAKE PLACE TO
EACH VILLAGE ONCE EVERY THREE MONTHS AND THIS WOULD ALSO BE
SPELLED OUT.
(C) UNFlCYP SHOULD BE ABLE TO TALK TO GKCYPS APPLYING
TO GO SOUTH AND TH l S, IF- AT ALL POSSIBLE, VJ I THOUT
TKCYP PRESENCE SO THAT GKCYPS CAN EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS WITHOUT
INTlMlDATIO~J.
(D) NO BASIC CHANGE IN CURRENT PRACTICES, PARTICULARLY
NOT CONCERNING ID CARDS AND HELICOPTERS, EXCEPT POSSIBLY
FOR AD HOC, LOCAL ARBITHATION CLAUSE.
oz ... ,IL" lb a:& u
CODE MESSAGE
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TO:: GUYER/URQUHART
FROM: PEREZ DE CUELLAR/BEATTIE
DATE: 3 MAY 1976
NUMBER: UNFICYP 661
FURTHER UNFICYP 623.
1. FROM 1 TO 30 APRIL INCLUSIVE, 322
GKCYPS LEFT FOR SOUTH, OF WHHOM 168 FROM l<YREN I A AREA, WHICH REPRESENTS FUHTHER I NCHEASE IN RATE OF Tf1,I.\NSFERS.
2. FOH \•JEEK END I NG 30 APR IL THERE WERE 98 OF vtiOM 52 FROM KYREN I A ARE/\ AND ON 1 MAY FURTHER 17
CAME, INCLUDING 5 FROM l<YRENIA AREA ..
3.AS INDICATED IN DAILY SITREPS ALL THOSE TRANSFERRED SOUTH HAD SIG~JED ,\PPLIGI\TIO!':S BUT ,t._LL GOMPL/ilflED ON t\RHIVJ\L
lN SOUTH THAT THEY HAD DONE SO EITHER ON ACCOUNT OF • '!I
PREVA l LI NG COMD l TI OMS OH AS Hi::SUL l OF I ~~TI f,J I DAT I ON IN NORTH ~ :%:I: ~ -< -.:i
ENDALL + 0,
zz;cp
7. IN ABSENCE OF DENKTASH NEW PROPOSALS WOULD BE SUBMITTED
TO OREK., I NHAN \1JOULD ALSO BE BH I EFED. AT APPROPRIATE
iVOMENT YOU MIGHT \v I SH TO COMPLEMENT OUR NEGOTIATIONS
WITH APPROACH TO TURKMEN.
8. RE YOUR 325 PARA. 4, (A) PROCES VERBAL WAS
SIGNED 13 DECEMBER 1975. TKCYP WORKING PAPER WAS RECEIVED
aJ JANUARY AND POUCHED TO YOU FOLLO\!J I NG DAY. UN COUNTER
PROPOSALS WERE CONVEYED TO DENKTASH ON 25 MARCH (UNFICYP
4)8 AND YOUR 210). DEPEND I NG ON DEN KT ASH/OREK
J\VAILABILITY, MEETINGS WERE HELD WITH THEM, EITHER SEPARATELY
OR TOGETHER, ON 6, 8, 13, 21, 26 APRIL, 3 AND 4 MAY.
TO FACILITATE MATTERS FOR OREK, ALL MEETINGS \t,JlTH HIM WERE
HELD AFTERNOON/EVENING OUTSIDE UNFICYP WORKING HOURS.,
(B) TURKISH CONCERN UNDOUBTEDLY RELATES TO REMOVAL
OF ' ' I RR IT ANTS''., DENl<T ASH AS I/JELL AS TURK l SH EMBASSY
SUGGESTED ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION THAT AS ''GOODWILL
GESTURE'' UNFICYP SHOULD WITHDRAW VARIOUS INSTALLATIONS
FROM NOFHH PRIOR TO COMMENCEMENT OF NEGOTIATIONS ON
PROCES-VERBAL OR AT LEAST BEFORE THEIR CONCLUSION.
THIS REQUEST COULD OBVIOUSLY NOT BE ADHERED TO AND TKCYP
LEADERSHIP WAS TOLD ACCORDINGLY AT ALL LEVELS, ALSO BY
PREM CHAND. HOWEVER, WE AGREE THAT IT WOULD BE MOST DESIRABLE
THAT NEGOTIATIONS BE COMPLETED, ONE WAY OR OTHER,
BEFORE JUNE SECCO MEETING. ENDIT +
TO:
FROM:
DATE:
NUMBER:
INCOMING CODE CABLE
GUYER/URQUHART
PEREZ DE CUELLAR NICOSIA
04 MAY 1976 (SENT o41106z RECVD o41159z) 666 IMMEDIATE
1. I am pursuing consultations with both sides regarding
resumption of negotiattng process. Met Papadopoulos evening 3 Me,y
and Denktash morning 4 May. Will report shortly.
2, Derita.sh informed us this morning that he wlll be away
from 9 to a.round 20 l,Iay, r.,_ttending Islamic conference in Istanbul
and visiting Bonn; since Um1t s. Onan would be nAc-t·1ng President 11
in his absence., Mister Den/ktash stressed that it would therefore -not be appropriate for Onan while being nActing President" to meet
Papadopoulos.
3. Denktash was not receptive to our proposal to advance
Ledra meeting to this week.
4. While this renewed postponement does not come to un
expected in view of UNFICYP 644, you might nevertheless express,
if possible today, your concern to Turkish Permrep about repeated
delay, in further effort to secure early Ledra meeting.