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Transnational Thursday for February 6, 2025

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The UN Security Council has reiterated its desire that the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus reunify with the Republic of Cyprus in "a bicommunal, bizonal federation with political equality". It cites a resolution from 1991 in which it "reaffirmed its position on the Cyprus question":

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 form 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 bi-communal and bi-zonal federation.

Did anybody notice that Somalia now has a third problem area? The southern region of Jubaland has suspended relations with the federal government after the contested reelection of its president. Some skirmishes were won by Jubaland.

Maybe just me, but if you have two different separatist states and can't put down either one, maybe your country shouldn't be just one country?

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