More than one solution, Canada believes

CANADA has “a continuing interest” in Cyprus and believes there is more than one way to find a solution to the Cyprus problem, Canadian Foreign Affairs Secretary Ted McWhinney said yesterday.

Speaking in Nicosia after meeting President Glafcos Clerides, McWhinney said there was always close contact between Canada and the United States on the Cyprus problem. But he added that Canada was a country which “pursues its own initiatives”, although he emphasised that these would “never be in conflict with the UN initiatives or with those of the US”.

McWhinney also pointed to the Canadian involvement in the United Nations peacekeeping force (Unficyp) on the island as an example of the strong ties between Canada and Cuprus. He added that these ties had been strengthened by Clerides’ signing of the Landmines Treaty initiated by Canada.

In separate meetings yesterday, McWhinney and Canadian Representative on Cyprus Michael Bell also met Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash and UN Representative Gustave Feissel.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.