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Title Items-in-Peace-keeping operations - - letter from Ambassador Rossides, Permanent Representative of Cyprus

Date Created 13/06/1966

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Container S-0870-0001: Peace-Keeping Operations Files of the Secretary-General: U Thant: Cyprus

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PERMANENT MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS

TO THE UNITED NATIONS

163 EAST 72ND STREET

NEW YORK 21, N. Y.

Ref: L08/B June 13, 1966,

Excellency, ; On instructions from my Government I have the honour to draw Your Excellency's attention to the growing tension at the locality of , as a result of the continued provocative action by the armed Turco-Cypriot rebel forces there. By advanc- ing and taking up new positions in territory not previously under their control, and by increasingly establishing new manned posts, they aim at improving their military posture to the prejudice of that of the National Guard and tend to create a new enclave. In Your Excellency's Report (S/7350) of June 10, 1966, it is stated that the UNFIGYP has had to take "a particularly strong stand against any action that tends to intensify armed confrontation, such as the strengthening of existing forward positions or the establishment of any new position, that might improve the military posture of either side in rela- tion to the other" and that "this policy is being consistently applied". In the present case, the Turco-Cypriot forces in defiance of any recommend- ations by the UNFICYP, not only have refused to withdraw to their original positions, but continue to set up new manned posts in that locality,which by now have reached the number of fourteen.

In contrast to this defiant attitude of the Turco-Cypriot leadership, my Government, in prompt response to the request of UNFICYP with a view to facilitating negotiations, has, since April last, suspended the construction of an urgently needed road between the Greek Gypriot villages of Trypimeni and . This work was not only a part of the general programme to improve village roads on the island, but was also one, which had to be given high priority, in view of the fact that the only existing paved road between the two villages is the one that passes through the village of , which for over two years has His Excellency U Thant Secretary-General United Nations. -2-

been inaccessible to the Greek Gypriots because of roadblocks placed there by the Turco-Cypriot rebels. As a result the inhabitants of Trypimeni in order to reach the main - road for their necessary communication with the rest of the island, are forced to travel an additional distance of forty Kilometres. While negotiation has so far given no re- sults, the urgently needed construction of the said road remains in abeyance.

The negativeness of the Turco-Cypriot leadership and the embaLdened aggressiveness of its rebel forces creates an impossible situation at Trypimeni, which calls for more determined steps by UNFICYP in order to forestall its further deterioration.

It is my Government's earnest request that Your Excellency may give special consideration to this matter. Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration.

'enon Rossides Ambas sador Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the United Nations.