Cyprus' rival Greek and Turkish community leaders ended their first round of reunification talks Friday with both sides agreeing to keep negotiating despite disagreements.
President Dimitris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat ended the chapter on power-sharing in a future federation during a two-hour meeting at a U.N. compound inside the buffer zone separating the two communities. No results were announced, but both leaders agreed to keep talking.
"What I'm telling you is that things are not black," said Christofias, a Greek Cypriot.
Cyprus was ethnically split in 1974 when Turkey invaded in response to a coup by …

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