He may even see it as the prelude for reunifying Russia with other ex-Soviet republics.
The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, gave a revised draft of his blueprint for reunifying Cyprus to negotiators from the Greek and Turkish sides of the island and said he would make the plan final tomorrow by exercising his mandate to fill in any blanks they could not resolve so the document could be submitted to an islandwide referendum vote on April 20.
At least 54 children are expected to rejoin their parents on Tuesday, the original deadline imposed for reunifying families with kids under age 5, government attorney Sarah Fabian said.
But the push for increased asylum protections for reunified families is a long shot, especially after a wider crackdown on asylum procedures.
So the chances for Mr Annan's plan to reunify the island as a confederation of two republics looked good.
Mr Yushchenko had earlier accused the prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, of treason for not criticising Russia's attack on Georgia.The Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot leaders began formal talks in Nicosia (the capital for both) over a possible plan to reunify Cyprus after 34 years of division.
The election, officially recognized only by Turkey, is widely seen as a referendum on Mr. Denktash's rejection of a United Nations plan to reunify Greek and Turkish Cypriots living divided for almost three decades.
And yet, among all these landmarks, one diplomatic setback stood out: failure for the umpteenth time to agree on a UN-brokered plan to reunify the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus.Cyprus has been split into Greek and Turkish parts ever since Turkey invaded in 1974 in response to an Athens-backed Greek-Cypriot coup attempt.
The leaders are hoping, by April 15, to approve a plan to reunify, one union official said.
Last week the federation was supposed to announce a time and a place for a match between Mr. Kasparov and the federation's champion, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, part of a 2002 plan to reunify the title.
