Political equality in Cyprus is a more modest version of the EU’s

By Alper Ali Riza

The purpose of political equality in any Cyprus talks is to strike a fair balance between two rival but unequal communities condemned by history and geography to share a small island as a single nation state.

The UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar defined political equality in the context of a bicommunal, bizonal federation (BBF) in his report of March 8, 1990 that has been affirmed and adopted in all relevant UN Security Council Resolutions on Cyprus since then.