from BBC on EU enlargement
Cyprus 'spurns historic chance'
- Cyprus has missed an historic opportunity to resolve 30 years of division, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has said.
- Mr Annan was reacting to the Greek Cypriots' overwhelming rejection of a UN plan to reunite the island; Turkish Cypriots voted in favour of the move.
- The island will remain "divided and militarised" as it joins the European Union on 1 May, Mr Annan said.
- The EU has signalled that it will seek ways to end the economic isolation of the Turkish Cypriot state.
