HOME » BLOGS » ROBERT ELLIS Cyprus: The last round JANUARY 30, 2012 - 4:40PM Robert Ellis About the Author Sooner or later, everybody who has worked with the 'Cyprus question' becomes tired of it. US President Lyndon Johnson, in his letter to Turkish premier Ismet Inönü in June 1964 called it “one of the most complex problems on earth” and UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim said that Cyprus was the “most thankless and frustrating task” of his period of office. Now, it's Ban Ki-moon's turn. Since the collapse of the power-sharing constitution in December 1963, the island has become a political graveyard for five of his predecessors as well as countless envoys, including Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the Dayton Agreement. Ban Ki-moon’s predecessor, Kofi Annan, is noted for the failure of the comprehensive Annan Plan, which aimed to reunite the two communities in 2004. Now the present round of talks, which began betw...