B. NICOSIA 3122 DTG 301709Z OCT 75
1. SUMMARY: GREEK CYPRIOT PRESS NOVEMBER 1-3 CONCENTRATES
ON (A) "MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY KISSINGER," (B) UNGA DEBATE,
(C) NEW "EC-9 PLAN" AND (D) RECENT STATEMENT BY CLERIDES.
STORIES AGREE THAT SUPPOSED PRESSURES FROM US ON GREEK
CYPRIOTS TO RESUME INTERCOMMUNAL TALKS WITHOUT PRIOR
TURKISH PROPOSALS SHOULD BE REJECTED. PRESS REPORTS COMMON
GOC-GOG LINE FOR UNGA DEBATE. CLERIDES IS REPORTED TO HAVE
SAID U.S. AND NATO HAVE NOT EXERTED ENOUGHT PRESSURE ON
TURKEY FOR CYPRUS COLUTION, WHILE SOVIET UNION HAS PUT NO
REPEAT NO PRESSURE ON TURKEY. END SUMMARY.
2. "MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY": PRIMARY PREOCCUPATION OF GREEK
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CYPRIOT PRESS OVER WEEKEND CONTINUED TO BE "PRESENTATION
BY AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO MAKARIOS OF MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY"
ON OCT. 28. ELABORATING ON CONTENTS, PRESS SAYS "MESSAGE" RE-
QUESTED MAKARIOS TO RESUME INTERCOMMUNAL TALKS WITHOUT PRIOR SUB-
MISSION BY TURKS OF THEIR PROPOSALS. ALL GREEK CYPRIOT PAPERS
WRTING ON THIS SUBJECT SUPPORT MAKARIOS' AND COUNCILS OF
MINISTERS' "REFUSAL" TO RESUME TALKS WITHOUT TURKISH
SPECIFICITY. RADICAL INDEPENDENT ANAGENNISIS "APPLAUDS
DECISION REJECT KISSINGER RECOMMENDATION FOR EARLY
RESUMPTION INTERCOMMUNAL TALKS WITHOUT SUBMISSION OF COM-
PLETE PROPOSALS ON THE PART OF THE TURKS." LYSSARIDES'
TA NEA SAYS "WHAT AMERICAN AMBASSADOR APPEARS TO HAVE ON-
VEYED IS NOTHING ELSE BUT REPETITION OF TURKISH PROPOSALS,"
AND THUS MAKARIOS VERY RIGHTLY REJECTED "THE TURKISH STEP
(CONVEYED) THROUGH THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR." PRO-MAKARIOS
PHILELEFTHEROS AND DIMOKRATIKI ALSO EDITORALIZE ON THIS
SUBJECT AND STATE STRONGLY THAT GREEK CYPRIOTS
CANNOT RESUME TALKS WITHOUT PRIOR TURK PROPOSALS.
PHILELEFTHEROS, FOR EXAMPLE, SAYS "PRESSURE ON CYPRUS TO
OBTAIN CONSENT FOR RESUMPTION OF TALKS IS TOTALLY
UNACCEPTABLEM."
3. USEFUL ANTIDOTES TO FOREGOING PRESS
SPECULATION ON US APPROACH TO MAKARIOS WERE GREEK
GOVERNMENT "CIRCLES" STATE NOV 2 THAT OUTSIDE
INITIATIVES WERE DIRECTED AT TURKEY AND WERE VIEWED AS
HELPFUL (FBIS AT 022010Y), AND PARALLEL STATEMENT IN ATHENS
BY FONMIN CHRISTOPHIDES (FBIS AT 011745Y).
4. UNGA: GREEK CYPRIOT PRESS PROMINENTLY REPORTS DEPARTURE
NOV 1 OF GREEK CYPRIOT DELEGATION TO UNGA AND ITS MEETINGS
IN ATHENS WITH GOG FONMIN BITSIOS. DEPARTURE PROVIDES
TAKE-OFF POINT FOR STORIES ON IMPORTANCE OF UNGA DEBATE
FOR GREEK CYPRUS AND ON EXISTENCEOF COMMON LINE BETWEEN
GOC AND GOG. TYPICAL HEADLINES ARE "COORDINATION OF
ACTION BETWEEN ATHENS-NICOSIA; COMMON STRATEGY FOR THE NEW
FIGHT..." (PHILELEFTHEROS);; "GREECE-CYPRUS AGREE;
MORE SEVERE RESOLUTION" (LYSSARIDES' TA NEA); "CYPRUS WILL
DEMAND 'PRESSURING' RESOLUTION" (CENTRIST INDEPENDENT
FAKOS). STORIES ALSO REPORT GOC AND GOG AGREED THAT
QUESTIONS OF MAINLAND TURK COLONIZATION OF NORTHERN CYPRUS
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AND MISSING PERSONS WILL ALSO BE RAISED AT UNGA.
5. EC-9 "PLAN": PAPERS NOV 3 REPORT THAT FRENCH
FONMIN SAUVAGNARGUES ON VISIT TO ANKARA COMMENCING NOV 3
INTENDS SUBMIT EC-9 "PLAN" TO GOT FOR SETTLEMNT
CYPRUS PROBLEM. "PLAN" IS REPORTED BE ALONG FOLLOWING LINES:
TURKEY TO RETAIN 26 PERCENT CYPRUS TERRITORY; FAMAGUSTA,
MORPHOU, LEFKA TO BE RETURNED BY TURKS TO GREEK CYPRUS; ALL
GREEK CYPRIOT REFUGEES TO BE PERMITTED RETURN TO AREAS WHICH WILL
BE RETAINED BY TURKS: GREEK SIDE TO FORMALLY ACCEPT BI-REGIONAL
FEDERATION.
6. CLERIDES STATEMENT: SOME PAPERS CARRY REPORTS OF RECENT
INTERVIEW (NO DATE GIVEN) BY CLERIDES TO SWISS
PERIODICAL. IN THIS INTERVIEW CLERIDES IS REPORTED
TO HAVE SAID GREEK CYPRIOT "PATIENCE IS BEING EXHAUSTED.
THERE IS DANGER THAT THE MORE WE WAIT THE MORE PRESENT
SITUATION MIGHT BECOME ACCEPTABLE." HE FURTHER DECLARED
THAT ENGLAND AND GREECE AS LONDON-ZURICH GUARANTORS COULD
LAND TROOPS ON ISLAND IN CASE UDI IS DECLARED. FINALLY,
CLERIDES IS REPORTED TO HAVE SAID "US AND NATO DO NOT
EXERT ENOUGH PRESSURE ON TURKEY..., WHILE SOVIET UNION DOES
NOT EXERT" ANY.
CRAWFORD
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