CYPRUS-UN-CROSSING

A Turkish Cypriot looks to the Greek side of Cyprus from the Turkish part in the zero point of the buffer zone in the Turkish part of divided capital Nicosia, 25 November 2005. Preparations intensified 24 November for the reopening of a major thorougfire in the heart of Cyprus’s divided capital that has been closed for more than four decades by the conflict between the island’s Greek and Turkish communities. Turkish soldiers were completing a clean-up operation on the northern side of the UN patrolled Green Line before sappers moved in to check all unexploded ordnance had been cleared from Ledra street. AFP PHOTO / STRINGER