Annan Tells Leaders to Speed Up Peace Talks
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Cyprus to tell leaders they need a peace breakthrough by June to stave off the prospect of the European Union admitting a divided island in 2004.
Annan said he was concerned that reunification talks between Greek Cypriot President Glafcos Clerides and Turkish Cypriot President Rauf R. Denktash had fallen well behind schedule.
Cyprus has been divided since Turkish forces invaded in response to a brief 1974 coup by Greek Cypriot nationalists engineered by the military junta then ruling Greece.
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