The UN General Assembly as an instrument of Greek policy: Cyprus, 1954-581: Greek Motivations Evaluating the Recourse Second Recourse Third Recourse View of UN Role Uses of Resolution 1013 (XI) Fourth Recourse Fifth Recourse Evaluating the Fifth Recourse Discussion Modification of Goals REFERENCES

Between 1954 and 1958 the Greek government resorted to the UN General Assembly five times over Cyprus. Its ostensible goal was to get the Assembly to adopt a resolution that referred to the principle or the right of self-determination for the population of Cyprus or, in the case of the fifth recours...

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Published in:The Journal of conflict resolution 1968-06, Vol.12 (2), p.141
Main Author: XYDIS, STEPHEN G
Format: Article
Language:English
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Academic Achievement
Charters
Conflict Resolution
Debates
Diplomacy
Foreign policy
Government (Administrative Body)
International Relations
Meetings
Politics
Population
Public Opinion
Science Programs
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Summary:Between 1954 and 1958 the Greek government resorted to the UN General Assembly five times over Cyprus. Its ostensible goal was to get the Assembly to adopt a resolution that referred to the principle or the right of self-determination for the population of Cyprus or, in the case of the fifth recourse, to the establishment of an independent Cyprus. The Assembly's responses to these five successive political stimuli, however, do not seem to have helped the achievement of these ostensible Greek goals, even though the latter goal was eventually attuned. The setting up of an independent Cyprus was reached outside, not inside, the UN. Nevertheless, the international instrument which the Greek government sought to use for promoting its foreign-policy goal as well as the Greek Cypriot aspirations for enosis influenced not only the procedures finally adopted but also the substance of the solution. Beneath the corporate veil of the UN, two of the most influential third-party member states at the time-the US and India-had exerted their political weight. As a result, if the procedure of the conflict's resolution was primarily American, the substance of the settlement was, in the last analysis, Indian.
ISSN:0022-0027
1552-8766