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The talks on the peace plan for reuniting Cyprus ended in failure without any agreement Tuesday morning in The Hague, the Netherlands, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced in Brussels.
"We have reached the end of the road," Annan said in a statement after lengthy talks with Greek Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, according to reports reaching here from The Hague.
There would be no more negotiations, said the statement read out by Annan's special envoy Alvaro de Soto at a news conference.
Cyprus has been divided into the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities since 1974.
Annan presented the two sides with a peace plan on Nov. 11 last year, followed by a revised one a month later.
His third plan for a settlement was submitted during his visit to Cyprus in late February, shortly before his Feb. 28 deadline for an agreement expired.
Before the talks in The Hague, Annan had expressed his hope that the two sides of Cyprus hold referendums on the new plan on March 30 so that the united island nation could sign a mid-April accession treaty to join the European Union.
(Xinhua News Agency March 11, 2003)
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