United Nations Security Council Resolution 716 – Cyprus
Resolution 716 (1991) of 11 October 1991
The Security Council,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General of 8 October 1991 on his mission of good offices in Cyprus!
Noting with satisfaction the progress made in preparing a set of ideas as the basis for arriving at an agreed overall framework agreement on Cyprus,
Noting with concern the difficulties encountered in completing this work,
Regretting that it was not possible to convene the high-level international meeting foreseen in the statement made by the President of the Security Council on 28 June 1991,
- Commends the Secretary-General for his efforts during the past few months, and endorses bis report and observations;
2. Reaffirms its previous resolutions on Cyprus;
3. Reaffirms also its position on the Cyprus question, expressed most recently in resolution 649 (1990) of 12 March 1990 and in line with the high-level agreements of 1977111 and 1979112 between the parties in Cyprus, that the fundamental principles of a Cyprus settlement are the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and non-alignment of the Republic of Cyprus, the exclusion of union in whole or in part with any other country and of any fonn of partition or secession and the establishment of a new constitutional arrangement for Cyprus that would ensure the well-being and security of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities in a hi-communal and hi-zonal fcderation;
4. Reaffirms further that its position on the solution to the Cyprus prohlem is based on one State of Cyprus comprising two politically equal communities as defined by the Secretary-General in the eleventh paragraph of annex I to bis report of 8 March 1990;
5. Calls upon the parties to adhere fully to these principles and to negotiate within the framework of them without introducing concepts that are at variance with them;
6. Reaffirms that the Secretary-General ‘s mission of good offices is with the two communities whose participation in the process is on an equal footing;
7. Endorses the Secretary-General’s intention to resume discussions in early Novembcr with the two parties in Cyprus and Greece and Turkey to complete the set of ideas on an overall framework agreement;
8. Considers that convening a high-level international meeting chaired hy the Secretary-General in which the two communities and Greece and Turkey would participate represents an effective mechanism for concluding an overall framework agreement on Cyprus;
9. Requests the leaders of the two communities and Greece and Turkey to cooperate fully with the Secretary-General and bis representatives so that the high-level international meeting can be convened before the end of this year;
10. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Security Council in November 1991 whether sufficient progress bas been made to convene the high-level international meeting and, should conditions not be ripe, to convey to the Council the set of ideas as they will have evolved by that time with bis assessment of the situation.
Adopted unanimously al the 3013th meeting.
