The first plan provided for the cession of the Karpasia peninsula to the Turks to become a vast Turkish military base with army, navy and air force forces, while additionally granting autonomous Turkish Cypriot cantons in the Greek sector of the island. The Greek Cypriot sector in return would be united with Greece.
Turkey rejected the second Acheson plan and accepted the first, while the Greek government rejected the first and was very favourable to the acceptance of the second. George Papandreou used to say about this plan.
The Cyprus problem was also the subject of a brief conversation between the UN Secretary General and the Greek government. Ou Thad and Foreign Minister Stavros Kostopoulos, during the former's transit from Elliniko airport on 19 July.
Macarius, concerned about the events in Geneva without the presence of a representative of the Cypriot government, went to Athens on 27 July. He categorically rejected both versions of the Acheson plan and after repeated meetings under Prime Minister George Papandreou, the Cypriot leader announced to journalists on 30 July:
Self-appointed mediators have recently developed intense activity behind the scenes in Geneva to derail the Cyprus problem from the line being followed These self-appointed mediators, as I am well aware, have worked out unacceptable plans for the solution of the Cyprus problem I feel deep satisfaction because these plans have run up against the firm resistance of the Greek Government.
The Acheson Plan thus went down in history for some as a great missed opportunity for the Cyprus problem, and for others as the first failed attempt to partition Cyprus.
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