IF THE two sides can “break the back” of the property issue during the all-day talks next week, this would be a “very important step forward” in the talks, said UN Special Advisor Alexander Downer yesterday.

PRESIDENT DEMETRIS Christofias yesterday warned that Greek Cypriots needed unity and a common language on the home front “now more than ever before”, warning that the fait accompli on the island could soon become “a road of no return”.

CYPRUS has the third highest percentage of foreign citizens in the European Union, with a total of 128,000 according to a Eurostat survey released yesterday.

78,000 or 9.8 per cent of the total population were from other EU member states, and 50,000, or 6.3 per cent of the total population are from non-EU countries.