thetwocommunities, theSecurity Council's callfornon-recognition oftheTRNC shouldnotbemaintained. Ce)ItiswrongfortheSecurity Council toexpress legalopinions more suitedtoajudicial thanapolitical body. TheSecurity Council doesnotadhere tojUdicial formsandcannotinthecourseofadebate onanysituation probethe legalissueswiththethoroughness andfairness ofajudicial body.Itsdecisions shouldnot.therefore. extend beyondtheprescription ofspecific action aimedat maintaining orrestoring international peace. PARTI.THESTATUS OFTHECYPRIOT COMMUNITIES INTHECONTEXT OF THESETTLEMENT OFTHECYPRUS QUESTION 3.Theposition oftheGreekandTurkish parties inCyprusinrelation tothe settlement oftheCyprusquestion isreallyquitestraightforward. Thetwoparties areseparate communities ofequalstanding inthenegotiations, eachexercising its righttodetermine itsownfuture andneither beingsubordinate totheotherinany material respect. Thedisparity innumbers between themdoesnotaffecttheir equality ofstatusinrelation tothesettlement oftheCyprusproblem. 4.Thepositions ofthecommunities thusdescribed derives fromanumberofbasic textsandisuniformly reflected instatements oftheguarantor Powers, Greece, Turkey andtheUnited Kingdom ofGreatBritain andNorthern Ireland. andinactsof theUnited Nations, whether intheformofresolutions oftheSecurity Council and theGeneral Assembly orinstatements oftheSecretary-General. Thebasictexts 1.Priortotheindependence ofCyprus 5.Anearlyacknowledgement ofthestatusofthetwocommunities -anda particularly significant oneasemanating fromtheColonial Secretary ofBritain, atthattimethecountry responsible forthegovernance ofCyprus -istobefound I ••• Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld LibraryA/44/968 s/ 2L463 English Page 5 in the statement of Mr. tenno: Boyd made in the House of Conmons on19 Decernber 1956 ! "... it. trill be the purpose of Her Majesty's Government to ersure that anyexercise of se I f-deternination should be effected in such a maaaer that theTurkish Cypriot corrununity, no less than the Greek ClTrriot conrmunity shall, iDthe special circumstances of Cyprus, be given freedom to decide for themselvestheir future status. In other $ords, *er Majesty's Gover 'ent recognize thatthe exercise of sel f-determination in such a nixed population must includepartition among the eventual options.,. This statement lras confirmed by the prime Minister, Mr. Macnillan, o! 26 ilune 19sg, when he aLso described the Colonial Secretary.s assurances as "pledges',.
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a diplomatic document discussing the status of the two communities in Cyprus and the settlement of the Cyprus question. It mentions the Security Council, the United Nations, and the guarantor powers, indicating a focus on international relations and politics.

**Category**
Politics, International Relations