39. I!] short, if the Security Council had taken a lrhole (as opposed to atrinconpLete) view of the situatio! in 19g3, it should not have found that the TRNCDeclaration was "incompatibte" lrith the 1960 areaty of EstabrishmeD.t trithout arsohaving found that the conduct of the Greek cypriot conmunity had for the previous20 years been "itrcompatibl€', r{itb che 1960 seltlement and., moreover, that it wasthat conduct of the Greek cypriot connnunity that hail letl alirectry to the reacEionof the Turkish cypriot cornmunity. Ther€ can be no regar. basis for hotding oneparty to the terns of a! agreement r.rithout predicating the requirement of a! equar.degree of cornpliance by the other. there shoultl be recaLl.eal in this connecCion thestatement by th€ rnternationar. court of Justice in the Nanibia Advisory opinion(fcJ Reports 1971, at p. 46) of uhFt ib termed ,,one of the fundamental principles,.governing ehe iDternatioaal relaLibuship involved there : "... a party wtrich disosns or does not fulfil iEs ostr obligatioas cantrot berecognized as retaiuing t5e rights which it cLains to derive from thereLationship,'. That statement is equally applicable to the ClT)rus situation. 40' The failure of the Security Council to conforn to these basic anal controllinglegal considerations uDdermiaes conpreheDsively the rationality and persuasivenessof, its resolutions and, hence, the regar worth of ehose resolutions, The fact thataeverr yeara have passed since the aatoptioD of tbose resorutions cannot serve tovalidate the unsound legal approach then adopted, There is nothing to preveat thes€curity council from now endeavouring to put matters right by seekiag !o mat,ch theaPProach adoPted in these two resoLutions t.o the undoubted historical factst indeedevery legal consideration nilicates in favour of the adoption by the securitycouncir of a more principled position that nourd make a positive contribution tothe settlenent of ehe question, aarnefy, the retraction of its denial of thelegality and validity of the action of the Turkish cypriot community and of itscalL to refrain from recognition of the TRNC, g/A/44/968 S/21463 English Page13 Constitution hadbeeninoperative foraScoreofyears, sincethetime(in 1963-1964) whentheGreekCypriot community hadeffectively excluded theTurkish Cypriot community fromtheschemeofpower-sharing established bytheBasic Structure andtheConstitution. 38.Thisisnottosaythatthe1960TreatyofEstablishment wasnolongerin forcein1983.ItisonlytosaythatiftheSecurity Council attached importance totheideaofcompatibility oftheconduct oftheTurkish Cypriot community with theTreaty.itshouldhaveattached thesameimportance tothecompatibility with thatTreatyoftheconduct oftheGreekCypriot community. Byfailing todoso, theSecurity Council notonlysignally failedtoapplyinanobjective and
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a legal analysis of a historical situation, specifically the conflict between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities in Cyprus. It discusses the actions of the Security Council and the implications of its decisions on the situation. The text does not mention any specific economic, environmental, or social issues, but rather focuses on the legal and political aspects of the conflict.

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