* SIR – I would like to set the record straight regarding the talks on Cyprus (“A glimmer of hope”, February 15th). The aim of the intercommunal talks is not to reunite Cyprus “under a confederation” as your article states. The joint declaration is not susceptible to any misinterpretation: “The settlement will be based on a bicommunal, bizonal federation…the united Cyprus…shall have a single international legal personality and a single sovereignty…there will be a single united Cyprus citizenship…the principles upon which the EU is founded will be safeguarded and respected throughout the island…the federal constitution shall be the supreme law of the land.”

Equally unfounded are references to plans which in fact are non-existent; and blaming Cyprus for Turkey’s EU problems.

Euripides Evriviades

High commissioner of Cyprus London