text: ll.ondon] Conference .. , by the Representative of the Greek CyPriot Cornmunity and by the Representat.ive of the Turkish Cnriot Corurunity". 4/ The operative poiuts of these declarations were that eachrePresentative foundation for the final "accepts the documents and declaratio[s as the agreed settlement of the problern of, Cyprus". The prinqipal iten in the "documents and declarations" there referred to includeal the "Basic Structure of the R€public of Cyprus" (already referred to, see above, para. 7), all the elenents of, whictr were carried through into the CyPrus Constitution of 1960. The absolutely fundamental feature of this Structure was the joint participation in the Government of, Cyprus of both the Greek and the Turkish Cypriot comnunities in the precise, detailed and, above all, balanced manner set out iu those docunents. Now, while it is obviously true that the 1983 Proclanation of the existeuce of the TRNC as an independent State is inconpatible nith that structure, it is (and, equalty, was at the time of the adoptioB of the Security CounciL resolutions 541 (1983) and 550 (1984)) absurd to disregard the undoubted fact that the dominant anal controllinq features of, the Basic Structure and theA/44/968 S/2l463 English Page12 TheSecurity Council alsoreiterated itscalltoallStatesnottorecognize "the purported State"oftheTRNC. 36.Itisevident thattheposition oftheSecurity Council inrelation tothe TRNCispredicated upontheCouncil's assessment ofthelegalposition. Thiswas declared intheresolutions intwoimportant legalfindings whichareessentially asfollows: the1983Declaration oftheTRNC"isincompatible withthe1960Treaty concerning theestablishment oftheRepublic ofCyprus andthe1960 TreatyofGuarantee"; and thecreation oftheTRNCis"legally invalid". Eachofthesepropositions callsforcloserscrutiny. 1.Theproposition thattheestablishment oftheTRNC"isincompatible with the1960Treatyconcerning theestablishment ofCyprus andthe1960 Treaty ofGuarantee" (a)"The1960Treaty concerning theestablishment ofCyprus" 37.Thisis,presumably, tobetakenasareference tothetreatythatis generally knownas"theTreatyofEstablishment". TotheextentthatthisTreaty canbesaidtobebinding upontheTurkish Cypriot community (since, giventhe denial bytheSecurity Council oftheexistence oftheTRNC,theTreatyclearly cannot bebinding onthelatterentity), thismustderive fromthepreambular provision inwhichthestatedparties (theUnitedKingdom, Greece, Turkey andthe Republic ofCyprus) express theirdesire litemakeprovisions togiveeffect tothe...Declarations madeatthe [London] Conference •••bytheRepresentative oftheGreekCypriot Community andbytheRepresentative oftheTurkish Cypriot Community". ~I Theoperative pointsofthesedeclarations werethateachrepresentative
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