In the weeks since coming to office, the government – and the president himself – has quietly walked back talk of an EU personality acting as mediator in Cyprus peace talks. The ...
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‘Notes from the Graveyard of Diplomats’, a book launched this week by former Swedish ambassador Ingemar Lindahl, may appear ...
Read more 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 ...
Read more ‘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 ...
Read more 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 ...
Read more 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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