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UN Secretariat Item Scan - Barcode - Record Title Page 109 Date 15/06/2006 Time 9:27:39 AM S-0903-0006-05-00001 Expanded Number S-0903-0006-05-00001 items-in-Cyprus - chronological files Date Created 09/06/1975 Record Type Archival Item Container S-0903-0006: Peackeeping - Cyprus 1971-1981 Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit •«** »« i SSKS? ' ~. ,. -, ar - ^r. PERMANENT MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS TO THE UNITED NATIONS &i*.«i UEU aaoeccONDAVENUB NEW YORK. N. Y. IOOIT Ref: 127/74 - 30 December 1975 ft A Excellency, Upon instructions from my Government, and. further to my earlier letters on the same subject, I have the honour to bring to your notice additional cases of expulsion and harassment of indigenous Greek-Cypriot inhabitants in the occupied part of Cyprus, in still more demonstrable bad faith, and in violation of fundamental principles of International Law, the Geneva Conventions, as well as of specific provisions of the relevant General Assembly and Security Council Reso- lutions, recently adopted. A detailed list is annexed hereto. These new cruel and unlawful acts by the Turkish military amply confirm Ankara's sinister scheme to change the demographic character of the Island through such uprooting of the indigenous Greek-Cypriot population and their replacement by massive importation of colonists from mainland Turkey. While strongly protesting on behalf of my Government, these inhuman Turkish practices, I earnestly hope that Your c o e t> ^/ His Excellency Dr. Kurt Waldheim Secretary-General United Nations New York, New York 10017 - 2 - Excellency will find it necessary to initiate, through the Security Council or otherwise, immediate steps towards arresting this abhorrent process of faits accomplis. I shall be grateful if this letter is circulated as a document of the Security Council. Accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration. Zenon ttossides Ambassador Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the United Nations Attached: a/s ANNEX On December 24, 1975, the following Greek-Cypriot inhabitants of the township of Lapithos and the village of Ayios Epiktitos were forcibly expelled: 1. Christoforos Hadjipavli 81 years old 2. Areti Christoforou 75 " " 3. Augusta Mina 55 " " 4. Katerina Ouloupi 85 " " 5. Chrystalla Ouloupi 35 " " 6. Nicolaos Petrou 54 " " 7. Kyriacos Psara 60 " " 8. Anastasia Fani 70 " " 9. Aristofanis Dimitriou 63 " " 10. Siona Aristofanous 62 " " Agathi Koumousi, 80 years old, died a few hours before her expulsion and after she was faced with immediate and forced expulsion. '• UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNIES RAFEEUDDINAWMEO! '' 22 0?he attache communication ffwn the Foreign Minister of CyprusA| refers to the implementation of resolution 345O adopted by the 3Oth session of the General Assembly regarding ^ -, in Cyprus. The~0f"£ice responsible is the Division of Human Rights and I have accordingly asked Mr. Morse to have a reply prepared for you in consultation with Messrs. Guyer/Urquhart. -'••—-'' • s Q^ AREA CODE 212 f 9S6-:336O I 9B6-336: 1 PERMANENT MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS TO THE UNITED NATIONS ( S20 SECOND AVENUE NEW YORK. N. Y. 1OOI7 £ w:. Ref : 121/74 18 December 1975 Excellency, I have the honour to forward the text of a letter dated December 18, 1975, addressed to Your Excellency from my Foreign Minister, H. E. Mr. John Cl. Christophides, attached hereto. Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. Zenon* •Ruggides Ambassador Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the United Nations His Excellency Dr. Kurt Waldheim Secretary-General United Nations New York, New York 10017 Attached: a/s "18 December 1975 Your Excellency, I have the honour to refer to the resolution adopted on the 9th December 1975, by the General Assembly in its latest session, on the question of missing persons in Cyprus by which the General Assembly, gravely concerned about the fate of these people and reaffirming the basic human need of families in Cyprus to be informed about missing relatives, requested you, Mr. Secretary-General, (a) To exert every effort in close co-operation with the International Committee of the Red Cross in assisting the tracing and accounting of missing persons as a result of armed conflict in Cyprus, and (b) To provide the Commission of Human Rights at its thirty-second session with information relevant to the implementation of the resolution. On behalf of the Government of the Republic of Cyprus, I would request Your Excellency to look into this most tragic and purely humanitarian matter with all your sympathy and under- standing. The families of the missing persons are in constant agony not knowing whether their beloved are still alive or whether they have been killed. Information about the fate of the missing persons would help to alleviate the agony of their relatives. We believe that it would be a positive step if a committee of the I. C. R. C. would be given freedom of movement . 2/ to trace these persons or to discover the burial places of those killed. I would, therefore, request that Your Excellency might look into this possibility as well as into any other alternatives that you might consider appropriate. Please accept. Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration. John Cl. Christophides Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus" PERMANENT MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS TO THE UNITED NATIONS 62O SECOND AVENUE NEW YORK, N. Y. IOOI7 His Excellency Dr. Kurt T"7aclheim Secretary-General United Nations New York, New YOrk 10017 13 Itee* "E $363 'EHE ., FOB, 2HE KffmenQa OF OF 383 (1975) &BOPI!ED H5T 13 * Sf* ADDRESS EBR mBGBAM HEASE, HIS FOR FOREIGN ASTAIBS SJOOSIA. HIS MR. FOR "SGSEEGB AFFAIHS OF FOKSIG1? HIS MS. DOICEEI 3* BI2BIOS JFOE J'OBElcaS M:FAISB OF £GKEIC2f AFFAIRS (6SE2GE) IJEB NATIONS "* "~~r=~^ *' PROVISIONAL S/11910 L ^g^if / 13 December 1975 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH Draft resolution The Security Council, Hoting from the report of the Secretary-General of 8 December 1975 (S/11900 and Add.l) that in existing circumstances the presence of the United Nations Peace-keeping Force in Cyprus is still needed not only to maintain the cease-fire but also to facilitate the continued search for a peaceful settlement, Noting from the report the conditions prevailing in the island, Noting further that, in paragraph 68 of his report, the Secretary-General has expressed the view that in the present circumstances the best available means of making progress towards a settlement is through continued talks between the representatives of the two communities and that such talks can only be fruitful if the interlocutors are ready and authorized to engage in meaningful negotiations on all essential aspects of a settlement of the Cyprus problem, Noting also the concurrence of the parties concerned in the recommendation by the Secretary-General that the Security Council extend the stationing of the United Nations Peace-keeping Force in Cyprus for a further period of six months, Noting that the Government of Cyprus has agreed that in view of the prevailing conditions in the island it is necessary to keep the Force in Cyprus beyond 15 December 1975, Noting that General Assembly resolution 3395 (XXX) of 20 November 1975 reaffirmed the urgent need for continued efforts for the effective implementation in all its parts of General Assembly resolution 3212 (XXIX) of 1 November which was endorsed by the Security Council in its resolution 365 (197*0 of 13 December 1. Reaffirms the provisions of resolution 186 (196*0 of U March as well as subsequent resolutions and euoisrons on the establishment and maintenance of the United Nations Peace-keeping Force in Cyprus and on other aspects of the situation in Cyprus; 2. Reaffirms its resolutions 365 (197*0 of 13 December 197*t and 367 (1975) of 12 March 1975 and calls for their urgent and effective implementation; S/11010 Enlish 2 3. Urges the parties concerned to act with the utmost restraint and to continue and accelerate determined co-operative efforts to achieve the objectives of the Security Council; U. Extends once more the stationing in Cyprus of the United Nations Peace-keeping Force, established under Security Council resolution 186 (196U), for a further period ending 15 June 1976 in the expectation that by then sufficient progress towards a final solution will make possible a withdrawal or substantial reduction of the Force ^ 5. Appeals again to all parties concerned to extend their full co-operation to the United Nations Peace-keeping Force in its continuing performance of its duties ; 6, Requests the Secretary-General to continue the mission of good offices entrusted to him by paragraph 6 of resolution 367 (1975)5 to keep the Security Council informed of the progress made and to submit a report not later than 31 March 1976. *> •-•&' ""•'.'' iiisifejL.-.-...,:. • s^-a^.. PERMANENT MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS TO THE UNITED NATIONS •aO SECOND AVENUE NEW YORK. N. Y. IOOI7 Ref: 71/71 17 November 1975 I have the honour to inform you that Mr. G. derides, President of the House of Representatives and Greek-Cypriot negotiator in the intercommunal talks in Vienna and New York/ in reply to a question asked by the Associated Press Corres- pondent in Cyprus^ as to whether Turkish allegations to the effect that an agreement in principle had been reached on a number of issues regarding the solution of the Cyprus problem were tru.e and whether any progress had been made, stated as follows : "This allegation is totally unfounded. No agree- ment has been reached on any point or issue either * in principle or otherwise, regarding the solution of the Cyprus problem. Proposals were exchanged on some issues of the Cyprus problem, but the Turkish side, despite solemn commitments undertaken in the presence of the Secretary- General, has failed to submit proposals covering all the aspects of the Cyprus problem and as a result the negotiations broke down.