
By Flora Alexandrou
The term “bizonal, bicommunal federation” (BBF) has been repeated ad nauseam by politicians for decades. More recently, the Greek Cypriot leadership has replaced it with the more abstract phrase “framework set out by the relevant UN Security Council Resolutions”. As if one more layer of ambiguity might succeed where clarity failed.
And yet, despite all the repetition, most Cypriots still don’t know what a BBF actually means.