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A UN-backed meeting on the future of the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus is taking place in the US on 23 and 24 January 2012. A UN force has been there for over four decades; it included Danish peacekeepers, such as the sentry pictured above, who were there in 1973. UN/Y. Nagata

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