Veterans salute the fallen on International Day of Peace Downer cautiously optimistic THE BLUE BERET Editorial Published monthly by the: Autumn is a time of returns: to school, to work, to at start of substantive talks Public Information Office the business of government. So it is with the re- “Let me, though, say this: there United Nations Force in Cyprus launched negotiation process in Cyprus. The leaders is no doubt that this is a very difficult HQ UNFICYP process. After all, there hasn’t been PO Box 21642 of the two communities held the first round of fully- fledged talks on 3 September and discussed the a successful conclusion to the 1590 Nicosia Cyprus problem for many years, as Cyprus question of governance and power-sharing in a future everybody knows. So therefore it’s united Cyprus. They met two more times in Sep- Tel: 2261-4550/4416/4408 not going to be a simple and easy tember to continue those discussions. As Special Fax: 2261-4461 process. There will be ups and Adviser to the Secretary-General on Cyprus Alexander E-mail:
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[email protected] days and there’ll be bad days, there Nations remains cautiously optimistic on the prospects Website:www.unficyp.org will be good headlines and there’ll be for the peace process. bad headlines, of course. Editorial Team While much of UNFICYP has been mobilized to “Inevitably these processes are José Diaz support the peace process, the mission is still difficult,” he said but added that he Miriam Taylor conducting its day-to-day work.