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Cyprus: Nicosia blames Turks for failure of reunification talks

THE Cypriot government blamed the breakaway ethnic Turkish pseudo-state yesterday for the failure of reunification talks in Switzerland.

Spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said Turkish Cypriot negotiators had evaded coming to agreement on how much territory each side would administer in a planned federation.

President Nicos Anastasiades was set to make a televised address last night to clarify the situation.

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