Security council deadlocked over unified Cyprus plan

The United Nations Security Council remained divided today over a resolution backing Secretary General Kofi Annan’s plan to reunify Cyprus and calling on Greek and Turkish Cypriots to use it as a basis for a settlement.

Annan tried to get both sides to agree to the reunification plan so that a united Cyprus could sign a treaty on April 16 to join the European Union next year, but the talks collapsed last month when Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash rejected the proposal.