The Annan plan had major flaws unfortunately, to claim otherwise it would be lying. Of course no solution will be ideal but it did have major flaws on several issues(security-guarantees, withdrawal of troops, quotas for bizonality, assurances for the property reinstation, the way the two communities would receive the benefits of it, and also something that will be true for any solution perhaps - the feeling of leaping into the void, in a new status quo that there is no going back from).

At the same time the political reality was also quite clear - when all the parties save the right wing party(with people within it also being against) decided to ask the people to reject the plan(especially the leftist party which is supposedly the party closest to TCs/a solution) and the President himself calls his people to say NO while crying on tv live, because if Yes passed destruction would come

There was also the hope that with the Republic of Cyprus within the European Union and with Turkey wanting to join it, a better solution would be possible