Abstract
In this article, one of the best-known and most disappointing attempts to achieve a federal solution in Cyprus—the Annan Plan negotiations—is revisited. The aim is to evaluate the role of the UN's mediating team, which was drawn from the UN Secretariat, and to highlight weaknesses in the policy process. The governmental politics model is applied to the work of the UN Secretariat in the 2002–04 Annan Plan negotiations for Cyprus, in an effort to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the secretariat in the negotiation process. The assessment undertaken of its role is two-fold: how much autonomy did the secretariat team have, and what were the characteristics of the process that hindered successful decision outcomes?
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