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UGG Bailey Button Triplet tary aircraft to northern Cyprus for the ceremonies, which were watched by Mesut Yilmaz, Turkey's prime minister.Nearly a quarter of a century after the island was divided, the international community is far from its goal of reuniting Greek and Turkish Cypriots under a federal roof. Both are drawing closer to their respective motherlands, while the attention of foreign mediators focuses on preventing renewed military conflict as the clock ticks toward the Greek Cypriots' planned deployment in November of Russianmade antiaircraft missiles. Turkey has threatened to knock them out. As Greece has a defense pact with Cyprus, this could ignite a GrecoTurkish war.According to President Glafcos Clerides, the Greek Cypriot leader, the Cyprus problem is facing its most crucial period since the Turkish invasion.Earlier this month Russia demonstrated the missiles' potency to visiting Greek Cypriot servicemen, launching several at dummy rockets flying over the remote Astrakhan desert. A week later, Turkish warplanes practiced
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