Solana: UN plan for Cyprus is ready

E.U. HIGH Representative for the Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana yesterday confirmed that the UN had put together a plan for a settlement to the Cyprus problem.

Asked by CNA about prospects for a Cyprus solution before the EU proclaimed Cyprus and nine other candidates “under accession” at the Copenhagen summit in December, Solana said he had been in touch with UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan “in the last days” about Cyprus.

“Mr Annan will make every effort to get a solution before December,” Solana said, admitting, however, that this was “very difficult”.

Asked if he was aware of a UN plan that had already been prepared on Cyprus, he answered: “You want me to say… I will say ‘Yes’.”

“One must not forget that Cyprus is a candidate country. If a solution to the Cyprus problem is not achieved, then Cyprus will be named a country ‘under accession’ to the EU at the summit in Copenhagen this December, together with the other candidate countries,” he said

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