Overall agreement on Cyprus expected.

• Position: United Nations

The Security Council on 26 August expressed expectation that an overall framework agreement on Cyprus would be concluded in 1992.

In resolution 774 (1992), adopted unanimously, the 15-member body reaffirmed its position that a Cyprus settlement must be based on "a State of Cyprus with a single sovereignty and international personality and a single citizenship, with its independence and territorial integrity safeguarded, and comprising two politically equal communities ... in a bi-communal and bi-zonal federation". It also reaffirmed that such a settlement must exclude "union in whole or in part with any other country or any form of partition or secession".

The Council endorsed a set of ideas, including suggested territorial adjustments reflected in a map put forth in the 21 August report (S/24472) of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, as the basis for reaching an overall agreement. The Council agreed that the set of ideas, as an integrated whole, had been sufficiently developed "to enable the two sides to reach an overall agreements."

The set of ideas covers the following: overall objectives; guiding principles; constitutional aspects of the federation; security and guarantee issues; territorial adjustments; displaced persons; economic development and safeguards; and transitional arrangements.

The Council urged the parties, when they resume the talks with the Secretary-General in October, to pursue uninterrupted negotiations until an overall framework agreement was reached on the basis of the entire set of ideas.

The Council also reaffirmed that the Secretary-General, following satisfactory conclusion of the talks, convene a high-level international meeting chaired by him in which the two communities, as well as Greece and Turkey, would participate.

The Council said it expected that 1993 would be the transitional period during which measures contained in the annex to the set of ideas would be implemented.

It reaffirmed that the present status quo was "not acceptable" and, should no agreement emerge from the talks in October, called on the Secretary-General to identify reasons for failure and recommend to the Council alternative courses of action to resolve the Cyprus problem.

In his report, the Secretary-General said the set of ideas had emerged after two years of consultations wit the parties concerned. The set of ideas incorporated the understanding that Cyprus was the common home of the two communities, within the federal republic...