FILE PHOTO: Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades speaks during a news conference at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia, Cyprus September 16, 2020. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou/Pool
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus is committed to reunification talks with estranged Turkish Cypriots but not at gunpoint, its president said on Thursday on a dispute which has deepened Greece-Turkey tensions and stymied European Union policy-making on Belarus.
A simmering decades-old conflict which split the east Mediterranean island's Greek and Turkish Cypriots has come full circle with the issue featuring prominently in disputes between NATO allies Greece and Turkey, and now holding up EU plans to impose sanctions on Belarus.
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