Mr. President. 10 years have passed since the brutal Turkish invasion and occupation of 40 percent of the Republic of Cyprus in the summer of 1974. About 25.000 Turkish troops remain on Cyprus today armed with U.S. weapons. Its Greek inhabitants driven away as refugees in 1974. Famagusta/Varosha remains a ghost town. No progress has been made to right the wrongs committed 10 years ago. Furthermore. in November 1983. the Turkish Cypriots caused a further deterioration in the situation. and made progress toward a Just negotiated settlement even more difficult to achieve. by a unilateral declaration of independence [UDI] establishing what they called an independent republic in the Turkishoccupied areas.
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