Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades has said that no struggle can succeed without unity, stressing that everyone's goal is to rid Cyprus of the Turkish occupation and to reunify the island.
It noted that no "specific procedures" existed to reunify separated families until a federal judge ordered on June 26 that children be reunited with their parents.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a recent report to the Security Council that a peace deal to reunify Cyprus was still alive despite the collapse of talks at an UN-backed Swiss summit in July 2017.
His remarks in a conference call came a day after the administration and the American Civil Liberties Union submitted widely divergent plans on how to reunify more than 500 still-separated children, including 410 with parents outside the United States.
In the case, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, Judge Dana Sabraw ordered the government to reunify the families by July 26, but that deadline was not fully met.
The judge had previously ordered the government to reunify by July 26 as many as 2,500 immigrant children it had separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months.
Summary: Turkey toughened its stance Tuesday in talks to reunify Cyprus, insisting that it won't sign any deal involving the withdrawal of all its troops from the ethnically divided Mediterranean island nation.
WASHINGTON, June 8 (KUNA) -- US Vice President Mike Pence met with President of the Republic of Cyprus Nico Anastasiades on Thursday and underscored the US support for the resumption of UN-facilitated talks to reunify Cyprus.
