United Nations		S/2001/1162
	Security Council				Distr.: General 10 December 2001 English Original: French

Letter dated 10 December 2001 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council

 

I have the honour to refer to my mission of good offices in Cyprus. In my report to the Security Council on the United Nations operation in Cyprus of 30 November 2001 (S/2001/1122, para. 12), I referred to the meeting scheduled for 4 December between Mr. Glafcos Clerides and Mr. Rauf Denktash in the United Nations Protected Area, in the presence of my Special Adviser on Cyprus, Mr. Alvaro de Soto. This meeting having taken place, I have pleasure in informing you that Mr. Clerides and Mr. Denktash have agreed to begin direct talks, at my invitation in the exercise of my mission of good offices. These talks will start on 16 January 2002. [Read more…]

	United Nations		A/56/612–S/2001/1059
	General AssemblySecurity Council				Distr.: General9 November 2001 Original: English

 

Letter dated 5 November 2001 from the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

 

Under a letter dated 5 October 2001 (A/56/451-S/2001/953), Mr. Umit Pamir, the Permanent Representative of Turkey, sent you a letter covering a “Further Opinion” by Professor Maurice Mendelson QC. That Opinion, and Mr. Pamir’s letter, alleged that Cyprus’s application to join the European Union was illegal, and that the United Kingdom was obliged by the terms of the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee to veto Cyprus’s accession to the European Union. [Read more…]