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DIPLOMATS’ GRAVEYARD

A diplomat who survived the Cyprob graveyard
Book by former Swedish ambassador offers fascinating observations on Cyprob leaders ‘Notes from the Graveyard of Diplomats’, a book launched this week by former Swedish ambassador Ingemar Lindahl, may appear ...
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George Vassiliou: the years of lost opportunities
In the second volume of your autobiography, you emphasise your conviction that resolving the Cyprus problem meant abandoning “protaxis” (only commencing negotiations subject to strict conditions), which was consistently followed ...
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Exhuming the diplomats’ graveyard
‘THE diplomats’ graveyard’ is a term often used to describe the effect the intractable Cyprus issue has had on the parade of UN representatives who have tried to help find ...
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Envoys we love to hate
IT’S BEEN a long-time brewing but parliament finally passed a resolution censuring UN Special Adviser Alexander Downer on Thursday, around seven weeks before he drafts a crucial report on ...
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‘We really have turned nasty on this’
IN THE behind-the-scenes political series The West Wing, Martin Sheen plays a tough but honest American president whose motives, although often publicly perceived as dubious, were always well intentioned.Reading ...
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