LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT: Cyprus
                              THE WHITE HOUSE

                       Office of the Press Secretary

_________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                            January 18, 2001



                    TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
              TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                 AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE
                           ON FOREIGN RELATIONS



                                 January 17, 2001




Dear Mr. Speaker:    (Dear Mr. Chairman:)

In accordance with Public Law 95-384 (22 U.S.C. 2373(c)), I submit to you
this report on progress toward a negotiated settlement of the Cyprus
question covering the period October 1-November 30, 2000.  The previous
submission covered events during August and September 2000.

The United Nations continued its efforts to bring about a comprehensive
settlement between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots with the fifth
session of proximity talks in Geneva from November 1 to 10.  Special
Presidential Emissary Alfred Moses, Special Cyprus Coordinator Thomas
Weston, and U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus Donald Bandler continued to provide
diplomatic support to the process.  The United Nations Secretary General
invited both parties to continue talks in Geneva in late January.  The
United States remains committed to the United Nations process and efforts
to bring about a solution based upon a bizonal, bicommunal federation.

                              Sincerely,



                              WILLIAM J. CLINTON




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