reference madebyMr.Clerides, theGreekCypriot President oftheHouseof Representatives, to"Turkish [Cypriot] areas"). 131Although legalcommentators disagree onthelegitimacy under international lawoftheextension oftheTurkish intervention inAugustof1974, itremains afactthatthesituation wasunderclosescrutiny bytheSecurity :ounci1 andthatbodydidnotatanypointdetermine thattheTurkish action wasa )reachofthepeaceoranactofaggression. Thefurthest thattheCouncil went "astoexpress concern atthesituation resulting from"military operations" (a oermbroadenoughtoinclude theactions ofGreekaswellasTurkish forces) "which ,onstituted amostserious threattopeaceandsecurity intheEastern ~editerranean area"andtorecord"itsformaldisapproval ofunilateral military lctions undertaken against theRepublic ofCyprus" (again atermwhich,beingused entheplural, waswideenoughtoCOverGreeknolessthanTurkish military lction). UnitedNations Security Council resolution 360(1974). Inanycase,the I•.• Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld Library^/44/967s/21420 English Page 12 Notes ( concirued) important poiDt is that the Turkish interveEtio! is not the source of the turLish ClT)riots' rights to deterrnine their political future. Nor should the Turkish Ci?riot people be chargeable with rosPonsibility for the actions of the goverDment of Turkey in 19?4 under its inEerpretatio! of its resPons ibi lities as a Guarantor Potrer urxder the 1960 treaty. 1-4/ S/LL624, aDDex II (1975) (entitl€d "Statenent by Vlce-Presid€lt Denktas dated 13 February l-975" ) . L9/ See S/12323, Guideline 1 raads! "9fe are seekitrg an indePentlent, non-aligtreal bi-conmunal Federal. Republic." Guideline 2 anticiPatetl that there rrould be "territory under the admiDistration of each cornmunity. " L6/ fnde€d, the parliameatary resolution declaring the fouadation of the Turkish Republic of Norther! Cyprus coatained specific asaurarces that the "proclamation of the Turkish Republic of Northern C!?rus wiLl not hilder tho ttto equal Peoples a[d their adninistrations from establishitg a new PartnershiP within the frarnework of a genuine federation". Declaration of IDdependence anal Resolution Adopted by the Turlish clTrriot Parliament oa 15 November 1983, Para. 22 (b). 1Zl United States courts bave coasisteatly rul€d that whether a governnenE sboulat be recognized is a political guestion whose determinalion is within the exclusive prerogacive of the Eaecut.lv€ branch. Banco Nacional, de Cuba v. Sabbatino, 376 U.3. 398, 410 (1964), National Citv Bauk of Nett York v. Republic of
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