11:14 09.11.2012

Ukraine to assist in Cyprus conflict settlement, says Yanukovych

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Ukraine to assist in Cyprus conflict settlement, says Yanukovych

Ukraine support a fair solution to the Cyprus issue, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said.

"Ukraine supports mutually acceptable and fair solution to the Cyprus dispute based on the international law and the relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council," he said in a press statement after the Ukrainian-Cypriot talks on Thursday.

The Ukrainian president also said that during the talks, the parties discussed the issues of cooperation in international organizations during Ukraine's chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 2013. According to Yanukovych, one of the priorities of Ukraine's chairmanship of OSCE will be promoting conflict management.

The Cyprus conflict is the territorial conflict between the Republic of Cyprus and Turkey, over the northern part of Cyprus occupied by Turkey. At present, the territory of Cyprus is divided into two states - the Republic of Cyprus and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. In 2008 Dimitris Christofias won the presidential elections in the Republic of Cyprus and restarted talks on reunification.

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