February 10, 2012
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Greek Cypriot leader won't seek 2nd term if talks fail
18 March 2010 / AP WITH TODAY'S ZAMAN, NICOSIA
Greek Cypriot leader says he won't seek re-election in 2013 if ongoing talks to reunify the ethnically-split island fail.
Dimitris Christofias was speaking at a news conference on Thursday.
Christofias, a Greek Cypriot, was elected in 2008 on a campaign promise to resume stalled peace talks with Turkish Cypriot President Mehmet Ali Talat. But there has been only limited progress after 19 months of slow-moving negotiations.
Cyprus was divided into a Greek Cypriot south and a Turkish Cypriot north in 1974 when Turkey intervened after a coup by supporters of union with Greece.
Talat faces possible ouster in an April 18 election in the north. Opinion polls show him trailing to a hardliner.
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