London and Zürich Agreements

On that basis, a constitution was drafted and agreed together with two prior Treaties of Alliance and Guarantee in Zürich on 11 February 1959.

After the failure of the Agreement in 1963 and the de facto military partition of Cyprus into Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot regions, the official Republic of Cyprus, controlled by the Cypriot government, claims that the 1960 Constitution basically remains in force, but the Turkish-Cypriot region claims to have seceded by the Declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in 1983, which was considered legally invalid by the UN and the so called “TRNC” is not acknowledged as a country by any nation other than Turkey.

Makarios refused all suggestions that would have resulted in the partition of Cyprus, and negotiations over the problem have still failed to succeed.

The United Nations declared the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to be legally invalid and asked for its withdrawal.

[citation needed] The UN Security Council has issued multiple resolutions that all states should refrain from recognising the protectorate of Turkey in Cyprus.