INTERNATIONAL LAW AND DIPLOMACY ON THE CYPRUS QUESTION

VII CONTENTS FOREWORD ...............................................................................................................................V LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.........................................................................................................XI INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................... 1 PART I ORIGINS CHAPTER I DIPLOMATIC CONTEXT TO THE CYPRUS QUESTION 1. The period up to 1960 .......................................................................................................... 5 1.1. Brief Historical background........................................................................................... 5 1.2. Legal Questions arising out of the British Occupation ................................................. 9 1.3. British constitutional proposals for Cyprus ................................................................11 1.4. The Structure and legal peculiarities of the Constitution ...........................................18 2. Inter-communal Conflict analysis ...................................................................................24 2.1. The Roots of Political Partition in Cyprus....................................................................24 2.2. The external factors of Political Partition....................................................................26 3. Foreign involvement 1960-1974: U.S. Foreign Policy on Cyprus .................................33 3.1. U.S. Policy in the Colonial Period of the Cyprus Question .......................................... 33 3.2. The independent Republic of Cyprus and the United States .......................................35 3.3. The Acheson Plan ........................................................................................................36 3.4. The events leading to 1974 and the U.S. role .............................................................. 37 CHAPTER II THE TURKISH MILITARY INTERVENTION OF CYPRUS: THE ARGUMENT FROM THE TREATY OF GUARANTEE 1. Turkish justifications for the intervention and claims regarding the treaty ................41 2. Treaty of Guarantee and International Law ....................................................................43 2.1. Theories on the Legality of Military Intervention by Treaty Right............................... 43 2.2. Arguments for the Legality of Intervention envisaged by Treary ...............................46 (i) Legitimate limitation of a State’s sovereignty ..........................................................46 (ii) Volenti non fit injuria ...............................................................................................47 (iii) Pacta sunt servanda ...............................................................................................47