1. Characteristically, the international community and the UN accepted the exclusively Greek-run Cyprus government as a successor of the two-nation state, not because this was deemed to have solved the problem, or because the Greek Cypriot politicians were shrewd enough to obtain this recognition, but because Cyprus had a seat in the UN and it was to be filled by somebody or other, and it was easiest to accept the incumbent Greek president, Archbishop Makarios, who meant a continuity, as the representative of a wholly changed Cypriot state. Also characteristic of the power afforded by being a representative was the change in Makarios’ position; in 1959, when concluding the treaties between Great Britain, Greece and Turkey, the leaders of the Greek Cypriot community, including Archbishop Makarios, who did not agree with its stipulations, had been given the opportunity, the humiliating conditions owing to unequal partners, of accepting or next-to-impossible rejecting it, not of negotiating and amending it. As soon as ‘Black Mak’ was elected president in consequence of the treaty, he became a decisive and unavoidable factor capable of pulling the strings of world politics, when the force immediately behind him was not much more than that of the former, somewhat less organized Greek Cypriot community.Google Scholar