Cyprus (Hansard, 28 October 1992)

27. Mr. Benda
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will meet the Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktash, to discuss the situation in Cyprus.

§ Mr. Lennox-Boyd
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs has no plans to meet the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mr. Denktash, who claims to be the head of a state which we do not recognise. We have regular contacts with him at senior official level.

§ 29. Mr. Keith Hill
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement about the talks on Cyprus recently held in New York under the auspices of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

§ 31. Mr. Enright
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement about the talks on Cyprus recently held in New York under the auspices of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

§ Mr. Ray Powell
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement about the talks on Cyprus recently held in New York under the auspices of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

§ Mr. Bowis
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the latest position with regard to the talks on Cyprus.

§ Mr. Lennox-Boyd
President Vassiliou and Mr. Denktash held a series of separate meetings with the United Nations Secretary-General from 15 July to 11 August. Sufficient progress was made to allow a change of format to direct negotiation between the two, under the Secretary-General's chairmanship, from 12 to 14 August.
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These talks reconvened in the new format in New York on 26 October. Security Council resolution 774 makes plain that the international community expects this round to lead to the agreement of an outline settlement on the basis of the United Nations Secretary-General's "set of ideas" as set out in his report of 21 August.

§ 32. Mr. Nicholls
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on Her Majesty's Government's relations with the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

§ Mr. Lennox-Boyd
In line with Security Council resolution 541, we do not recognise the so-called "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus". Nor does any state other than Turkey. We support the efforts of the United Nations Secretary-General in seeking a solution to the Cyprus dispute on the basis of a single, federal, bizonal and bicommunal state.

§ Mr. Michael J. Martin
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement about the talks on Cyprus recently held in New York under the auspices of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

§ Mr. Hurd
Direct negotiations, under the United Nations Secretary-General's chairmanship reconverted in New York on the 26 October. Security Council resolution 774 makes plain that the international community expects this round to lead to the agreement of an outline settlement on the basis of the United Nations Secretary-General's "set of ideas" as set out in his report of 21 August.