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The Independent:
"The Greek Cypriot government faced diplomatic isolation within the European Union last night, after being accused of trying to sabotage a United Nations plan to re-unite the divided Mediterranean island....
EU diplomats and officials blamed the Greek Cypriot leader Tassos Papadopoulos for inspiring Russia to use its first UN veto since 1993 to block a resolution on proposed security arrangements should the islanders vote for reunification. The Greek Cypriots, who will join the EU on 1 May, have close diplomatic and military ties with Moscow...
Diplomats warned that Mr Papadopoulos's actions would have serious consequences once he takes up his seat at the EU's table. "There is a lot of anger at the way Papadopoulos has misrepresented this deal", said one diplomat.
Another added: "Trying to suppress freedom of the press, censorship - that sounds like something from a dark past not the behaviour of a country days before it joins the EU."

The Guardian:
"The AKEL communist party had earlier suggested it might throw its weight behind the Annan plan and help turn around the widespread antipathy of the Greek-Cypriot south.
But today its leadership said it had decided to oppose the plan because the UN security council had not provided guarantees on post-reunification security....

The resolution would have banned the supply of arms to Cyprus and revamped the UN peacekeeping mission already on the island to help carry out the Annan plan...

The 200,000 residents of the Turkish-occupied north are widely expected to accept the UN-sponsored plan in their own referendum on Saturday, but the deal depends on the support of both sides."

The Guardian:
"EU diplomats have drawn up secret contingency plans in case Cypriot Greeks or Turks vote against the UN reunification plan later this month, it emerged yesterday...
"No one believes that another window of opportunity will present itself in the near future," the EU enlargement commissioner, Günter Verheugen, said yesterday. "