Subject: Re: UN sets deadline for Cyprus deal<br/>
Date: Nov 12, 2002 @ 15:50<br/>
Author: L. A. Nadybal (&quot;L. A. Nadybal&quot; &lt;lnadybal@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1568488957">Would a unified Cyprus, where the northern half unites and would drag<br/>
the economic averages of the country down to the point where Cyprus<br/>
probably wouldn&#39;t qualify as a member, be able to join anytime soon?<br/>
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I think the cleverest thing the English could have done was to put<br/>
into the treaty the word &quot;sovereign&quot; when describing the status of the<br/>
bases.  There must have been reasons for making sure they were<br/>
anchored as areas over which Cyprus had no claim, and I think at least<br/>
one of them lies in the UK&#39;s desire to not have the embarrassment<br/>
beset them that were later to see the loss of Hong Kong.  <br/>
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Leased sovereignty is very tenuous, as we now see in the case of the<br/>
Czech Republic&#39;s leased exclave in the German harbor at Hamburg, and<br/>
as we may yet see in the case of Guantanamo.  Even the case of Panama<br/>
and the US Canal Zone, which wasn&#39;t leased, was an exercize in &quot;shared<br/>
sovereignty&quot;.  The concept just doesn&#39;t work over the long haul.  I<br/>
think the British saw that and went one sep beyond in the Cyprus<br/>
treaty, and now need only give up the bases voluntarily.<br/>
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Regards<br/>
<br/>
Len Nadybal<br/>
Washington DC <br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;anton_zeilinger&quot; &lt;anton_zeilinger@h...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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&gt; <br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,838155,00.html">http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,838155,00.html</a><br/>
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&gt; Nothing about the British sovereign bases. Do you think they will <br/>
&gt; remain should there ever be a unified Cyprus? </span></blockquote></div>