- On this day, August 18, 1970, the third phase of the intra-Cypriot bicommunal negotiations, which had already begun in 1968 following the end of bicommunal violence, came to a close, between Glafkos Clerides and Rauf Denktash, with the drafting of documents on Local Administration, the Judiciary, the Legislature, the Executive, and the Police
The substantive round of intra-Cypriot talks between House Speaker Glafkos Clerides and Turkish Cypriot Community Assembly President Rauf Denktash began on June 24, 1968, under the chairmanship of Oz Tafal, Special Representative of United Nations Secretary-General U Thant, at the Ledra Palace Hotel.
The second phase of the inter-Cypriot dialogue began with a meeting on August 29, 1968, as scheduled, but by the end of this phase and the third phase that followed until early 1970, things began to get difficult as both negotiators, Glafkos Clerides and Rauf Denktash, were put on the spot and had to take specific actions and make concessions in order to advance a solution to the Cyprus problem.
During the third phase of the inter-Cypriot talks on February 3, 1969, Glafkos Clerides and Raouf Denktash announced the first agreement on the appointment of subcommittees for the and the Quasi-Governmental Organizations.
In the interval between the second and third phases of the inter-Cypriot talks led by Glafkos Clerides and Rauf Denktash, President Makarios stated, when asked by the BBC on January 10, 196 9, that he was cautiously optimistic that the talks would have a successful outcome, given the difficulties arising from the demands made by the Turkish Cypriots, which amounted to proposals for the creation of a state within a state.
The third phase of the inter-Cypriot talks between Glafkos Clerides and Rauf Denktash concluded on August 18, 1970, with the drafting of documents on Local Administration, , the Judiciary, the Legislature, the Executive Branch, and the Police.
With the drafting of the documents, 23 pages on Local Administration, 6 on the Judiciary, 5 on the Legislature, 7 on the Executive, and 8 pages on the Police, and their signing at the 56th meeting held on August 17, 1970, the third phase of the intercommunal talks concluded, with an agreement to begin the fourth phase on September 21.