Envoy Quits Bid to Restart Unity Talks
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Conceding defeat in his effort to restart talks on reunifying this divided island, U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke said the Turkish Cypriots’ unacceptable demands made a “meaningful exchange” impossible. After three days of shuttling between Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders, Holbrooke said he had given up for now. “I’ll be back any time I can be useful and both sides want me,” he told a news conference before leaving. Lower-level U.S. mediation will resume later this month. Holbrooke said Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash insisted on recognition of his breakaway state as a condition for resuming U.N.-sponsored peace talks.
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