It says he contributed to the joint criminal enterprise through “incendiary” and “extreme nationalist rhetoric”.He ranked third in a presidential election in Serbia last year, winning a million votes.. Britain made a surprise move yesterday to break the deadlock in peace talks over Cyprus, by offering to hand over half the territory of its military bases on the island. Britain’s two sovereign bases (SBAs) on the southern and eastern coasts of the island, cover an area of 98 square miles.Kofi Annan, the secretary general of the UN, has embarked on a final round of shuttle diplomacy as he attempts to produce an agreement in time for a united Cyprus to sign the European Union accession treaty in Athens in April. Mr Annan held talks in Ankara yesterday and arrives in Athens today, before more talks in Nicosia for what he is calling “the defining moment for Cyprus”.Lord Hannay, Britain’s special envoy to Cyprus, said the offer – described by diplomats as astonishing – was designed to help to push for a deal.

“What he [Mr Annan] has put forward has the full consent of the British Government,” he said.The island has been divided since 1974, when Turkey invaded the north in response to an Athens-engineered coup seeking full union with Greece. Under the plan, 45sq miles of British territory would be ceded to Greek and Turkish authorities, with 90 per cent of that amount going to the Greeks. The offer is conditional on a deal being reached by the end of the month, to leave sufficient time for separate referendums for ethnic Turks and Greeks. Otherwise Cyprus will enter the European Union divided.Mr Annan’s plan envisages a loose federation termed the “indissoluble partnership”, with a common state government and two equal component states.Time for a deal is running out and there is no sign of compromise in either camp.

Costas Simitis, the Prime Minister of Greece, said yesterday that the chances of agreeing a deal in time were fading rapidly. “The margins of success within the given frame are very small, almost non-existent.”Tassos Papadopoulos, the recently elected Greek-Cypriot President, speaking during his first official visit to Athens, welcomed the British proposal but said it would not be decisive in delivering a deal “It’s more than welcome. We’ve always said that bases were a part of the price,” he said.The main stumbling block to a solution to Europe’s longest- running conflict remains the right of return for tens of thousands of Greek-Cypriot refugees, who lost their homes after the Turkish occupation.Mr Papadopoulos, a nationalist hardliner, has already demanded improvements to the plan to favour Greek-Cypriots, after campaigning on the platform of returning all refugees. Meanwhile, Rauf Denktash, the Turkish-Cypriot leader, has dismissed these demands as a “meaningless dream”.The SBAs, at Akrotiri in the west of the island and Dhekelia in the east, were established in 1960 as part of Cyprus’s treaty of independence.