The Negotiating Positions, April 1976

The principal provisions of the Greek Cypriot proposals:

1) The solution of the Cyprus problem should ensure the well-being of the people of Cyprus as a whole and should preserve the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and non-alignment of the Republic of Cyprus.

2) All foreign armed forces and foreign military presence and personnel should be withdrawn without further delay from the Republic of Cyprus and all foreign interference in its affairs should cease.

3) Urgent measures should be undertaken for the voluntary return of all refugees to their homes in safety and the settlement of all other aspects of the refugee problem.

4) Unilateral actions in contravention of the United Nations resolutions, including the colonization of Cyprus and changes in its demographic structure should cease.

5) Any situation already created, which is inconsistent with any of the above, should be rectified.

6) The Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus shall provide for the establishment of a federal State, the Federal Republic of Cyprus, which shall be a federation, and not a confederation.

7) There shall be a right of free movement through the territory of the Republic and freedom of residence in any place in which [one] may choose to reside.

8) The participation of the two communities in the federal organs should be proportionate to the ratio of the population.

9) [The] Turkish Cypriot administration . . . shall, within the framework of the Federal Republic of Cyprus, extend to 20 per cent of the territory of the Republic.

The principal provisions of the Turkish Cypriot proposals:

1) Cyprus shall be a Federal Republic composed of two Federated States, one in the north for the Turkish national community and one in the south for the Greek national community.

2) The Federal Republic shall be independent, sovereign and territorially integral.

3) The sovereignty shall continue to be shared equally by the two national communities as co-founders of the Republic.

4) The Federal Republic shall be secular. Religion shall be kept strictly out of politics in federal and federated affairs.

5) Equality of power and status of and non-discrimination between the two Federated States shall be ensured. Either of the States can in no way overpower, dominate, overrun or interfere with the other in political, judicial, military, economic,or other fields.

6) Each Federated State shall be free to maintain and regulate its own constitutional structure and take all such measures relating to its administration as may be necessary.

7) Under no circumstances shall Cyprus, in whole or in part, be united with any other State. Unilateral declaration of independence by either of the Federated States shall be prohibited.

8) Laws and all other measures, such as administrative, economic, social, etc., of the Federal Government shall not discriminate against either of the two Federated States or of the two national communities.