Our View: Cyprus problem at the UN: A 50-year speech no one’s listening to

For the last 50 years, every September, the president of the Cyprus Republic addresses the UN General Assembly. In the years immediately after the 1974 Turkish invasion, some delegations stayed in the auditorium and heard the president’s speech, but five decades later, nobody is remotely interested, with the exception of the Cyprus and Turkey delegations; Greece’s may take some interest, but only because it has an obligation to do so.

The world has much bigger problems to deal with than a cemented dispute that the UN...