Win-win or lose-lose

Cyprus settlement efforts have entered a new phase, with the negotiating parties announcing last week that after a month of intensified high-level talks among leaders and chief negotiators, the negotiations would move to somewhere out of Cyprus for talks on territory in November.
Will that be good or bad? Can anyone assume that since the two sides have agreed to "officially start" talks on the territorial aspects of the Cyprus problem - a first in more than 12 years - the Cyprus peacemaking exercise might have approached a resolution phase? Since the Turkish Cypriot side has agreed to blow up the linkage between territory and security, (the "guarantees" heading), could it be possible to secure an acceptable compromise resolution out of this process?

There's no need to fool anyone. I have been a die-hard skeptic on this issue and although I still have yet to make my final decision on the issue, for the time being I'm inclined to cast a "no" vote in any referendum offered to the two peoples of the island. With decades of experience of Greek Cypriot negotiation tactics, we can say that if the link between territory and guarantees is cut, and if Greek Cypriots obtain some concessions close to their expectations in the territory chapter, Turkish Cypriots and Turkey are doomed to lose when it comes to discussing the security or guarantees chapter at a five-party international conference. Why? If Greek Cypriots, Greece and Britain share the same opinion that in the current conjecture, particularly as the island would be under the protective shield of membership in the European Union, would it be possible for Turkish Cypriots and Turkey to obtain a decision for the continuation of the 1960 security scheme mutatis mutandis, but without harming its context or...