Soviet Union proposes representative international conference on Cyprus within United Nations framework.

Soviet Union proposes representative international conference on Cyprus within United Nations framework

The USSR has proposed a representative international conference on Cyprus, within the framework of the United Nations, as "a real way of ensuring the radical solution of the international aspects' of that problem.

Entitled "Principles of a Cyprus settlement and ways of achieving it', the proposal (A/41/96-S/17752) stated that such a conference could "work out jointly, with the participation of all interested parties, solutions which would be in the interest of both Greek and Turkish Cypriots, as well as of peace and universal security'. All parties must co-operate with the Secretary-General in his efforts at mediation carried out in strict compliance with the mandate entrusted to him by the Security Council, the USSR added.

Oleg Troyanovsky, Permanent Representative of the USSR, transmitted the proposal to Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar on 21 January.

Mr. Perez de Cuellar said the proposal had been given to the various parties concerned, and that he and his staff were studying it "with great attention'. He welcomed the support expressed in the document for his continuing mission of good offices to find "a just and lasting solution of the Cyprus question'.

The outcome of the work of such a conference, according to the Soviet proposal, might be the signing of a treaty or other document providing for the following "organically interrelated components' of a settlement: demilitarization of the island, including the withdrawal of all foreign troops and the elimination of all foreign military bases and sites; a system of effective international guarantees of the independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the Republic of Cyprus; and respect by all parties for its status as a non-aligned State.

International guarantees of the independence of Cyprus should rule out any future outside interference in the Republic's affairs, the USSR proposal said. Guarantors, it said, could be the permanent members of the...