UN presents plan for a Cyprus settlement

The United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan has presented a plan for a Cyprus settlement aimed at providing a "basis for agreement" to the island's 28-year division. This 150-page document, presented to the Greek Cypriot leader, Glafcos Clerides, and the Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktash, comes exactly a month ahead of the Copenhagen summit, where the EU leaders will decide whether Cyprus should join the EU as a whole or only the Greek Cypriot part. Mr Annan asked the two sides to giv...