Half of Greek Cypriots would vote down UN peace plan

ONE-IN-TWO Greek Cypriots would vote down a UN peace plan for the island in a referendum and 48% think their leaders were wrong to agree even to talk about it, an opinion poll published yesterday suggested.

Only a quarter of respondents said they would vote for the UN blueprint if it were presented to them unaltered in an island-wide vote provisionally scheduled for March, the poll published in the centre-right Alithia newspaper found.

But a full 25% said they remained undecided about the plan delivered to their leaders early last week, with only 26% saying they knew enough about it.