GreekCypriot President, elected solely byGreekCypriots, anda Turkish Cypriot Vice~President, elected solely byTurkish Cypriots, andseventy percent -thirty percent distribution ofseatsinthe Council ofMinisters andthelegislature, aswellasthesame allocation ofplaces intheadministration. Also,thePresident andtheTurkish Cypriot Vice-President weregranted vetopowers whichwouldhaveenabled themtoblockmeasures prejudicial to theirrespective communities. Executive power"ensued fromthe President andVice-President actingconjointly." Another essential feature ofthebasicarticles wasthespecific exclusion ofthe totalorpartial unionofCyprus withanyotherState. International guarantee oftheSettlement. 9.Theundertakings givenintheseAgreements werereinforced by theTreaty ofGuarantee of1960,aswellasbyincorporation inthe Cyprus Constitution itself. Theparties tothesetreaties werethe Republic ofCyprus, onwhosebehalf "theGreekCypriot President andtheTurkish Cypriot Vice-Presldent" signed, Greece, Turkey and theUnited Kingdom. Thesetreaties created fortheparties rights andduties underinternational law.IntheTreaty ofGuarantee especially theRepublic ofCyprus undertook toensure respect for itsconstitution, whileGreece, Turkey andtheUnited Kingdom, taking noteofthisundertaking, recognized andguaranteed the stateofaffairs established bytheBasicArticles ofthe Constitution. ThisTreaty alsoexpressly provided that"insofar ascommon orconcerted action mayproveimpossible, eachofthe threeguaranteeing Powers reserved therighttotakeaction with thesoleaimofre-establishing thestateofaffairs established by thepresent Treaty." EarlyGreekCypriot rejection ofTurkish Cypriot participation. 10.Within threeyearsoftheconclusion ofthesesolemn compacts theGreekCypriots hadembarked uponadeliberate course of subverting thebasicarticles. Thisculminated intheresignation oftheneutral President oftheConstitutional Courtandthe eventual denial ofeachandeveryrightgiventoTurkish Cypriots undertheConstitution. Inpursuance oftheso-called "Akritas Plan"thatwasaimedatuniting theisland withGreece, theTurkish Cypriots wereousted fromtheirguaranteed positions intheorgans 1••• Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld LibraryA/44/966 s/27398 English Page z of government, the political equal rty and the vested rrghtc cf the Turt<ish cypriots were denred, whi le lhe Greek Cypriot members ofthe House of Representatives enacted, rn flagrant vrolatlon cf the 1960 settlement and the basic articles of the constrtutron,legislation providinE for the operation of various organs ofgovernment without Turkish Cypriot participation. In June 1967 the Greek Cypriot legrslature went so far as unanlmousiy to pa6s aresolution in favour of "enosis", union with Greece, so clearlyprohibited by Article 185 of the Constltution. Seoaration of the Turkish Cvoriot communitv.
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a historical document discussing the politics and governance of Cyprus, specifically the 1960 settlement and its subsequent breach by the Greek Cypriot community. The text highlights the exclusion of Turkish Cypriots from government positions and the eventual denial of their rights, which led to the separation of the Turkish Cypriot community. The document seems to be focused on the political and constitutional aspects of the situation, rather than economic or social issues.

**Category**
Politics, Culture