ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΕΙΟ ΤΗΣ ΕΥΡΩΠΗΣ Recommendation 736 (1974)

Recommendation 736 (1974)
on the situation in Cyprus 
The Assembly, 
1. Having regard to its Recommendation 734 of 29 July on the situation in Cyprus and 
the Eastern Mediterranean area; 
2. Welcoming the decision in principle to grant humanitarian aid to Cyprus, taken by the 
Committee of Ministers of 22 August 1974; 
3. Having regard to the report of its Political Affairs Committee on the situation in 
Cyprus (Doc. 3489); 
4. Recommends that the Committee of Ministers: 
a. immediately supply humanitarian aid to alleviate the suffering of the Cypriot 
population both Greek and Turkish, due to the recent and earlier tragic events on the 
island; 
b. take a decision in principle on economic aid calculated to contribute to the 
developments of the island for the benefit of each of its ethnic communities; 
c. make every effort in order: 
1. to facilitate the current direct talks between the leaders of the Greek and Turkish 
Cypriot communities; 
2. to foster the attempts by the Cypriot leaders to arrive, through the inter-community 
negotiations, at a preliminary agreement on a future political settlement between the two 
communities, which would be a new basis for a conference of the three guarantor states 
together with the representatives of the two communities; 
3. to help the population of Cyprus, Greek as well as Turkish to live as citizens of an 
independent republic, complying with the international obligations deriving from the 
treaties on the Republic of Cyprus. 

1. Assembly debate on September 1974 (9th Sitting) (see Doc. 3489, report of the 
Political Affairs Committee). 
Text adopted by the Assembly on 25 September 1974 (9th Sitting).