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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY SONIA WOLF British UN soldiers open the gate leading to the green line separating the divided Cypriot capital of Nicosia on October 16, 2009. In the buffer zone of "no man's land" in Nicosia, all that remains are the shells of once-sumptuous houses, long ago invaded by nature in the form of cacti or fig and olive trees. After 35 years of division that followed the 1974 Turkish invasion, the Mediterranean island's ethnic Greek and Turkish communities remain wary of a unification deal which might be worse than the status quo. AFP PHOTO/PATRICK BAZ / AFP / PATRICK BAZ (Photo credit should read PATRICK BAZ/AFP via Getty Images)