The resolution is an extremely involved and highly responsible matter-yet it was offered for vote even before Security Council members considered it in detail. There was no due account for Russian-proposed amendments, either.
The Cypriot sides came out against the resolution passed on an emergency arrangement. A resolution passed without consideration for their stances would run counter the entire philosophy of Cyprus settlement.
More than that, the Security Council previously made an understanding, with the UN Secretary General active in it, that the resolution was not to come to vote before Cypriot settlement referendums, which Mr. Kofi Annan has scheduled for Saturday next, April 24.
The referendums will come as tools of implementing a crucial principle of the Parties' voluntary accord with proposed settlement terms.
Russia is willing to do its utmost as the UN Security Council works at its resolution on the issue, if the Saturday referendums say yes. The efforts must go on after the referendums in Cyprus' both parts, and must take their results into due consideration, says the Foreign Ministry.
