Anastasiadis for Cyprus: If there is good will there can be a positive result

I am not as optimistic as I would like to be because of the constant statements of either Mr. Erdogan or Mr. Tsavousoglu, or of what is repeated through the mouth of Mr. Tatar, the President of the Republic of Cyprus said on Monday. Nikos Anastasiadis.

In a press conference he gave to the journalists, from New York, where he is in the context of UN General Assembly, Mr. Anastasiadis spoke about a “particularly important” visit.

According to the EIA, he expressed the hope “to be important” and “in view of meeting which will take place at the invitation of the UN Secretary General, between the Secretary General and the two leaders, on September 27 at a dinner to be hosted by the Secretary General at the UN “.

“On August 30, I sent a letter to the Secretary General reiterating his readiness and determination not only to participate in a meeting with the Secretary General and Mr. Tatar but also to develop positions that can help, if there is good will on the other hand, “to resume a meaningful, creative dialogue that will lead to a solution within the UN and that will yield a functioning and therefore sustainable state that respects the concerns of both communities and fully respects the European acquis and human rights in general.” Mr. Anastasiadis.

“Therefore, I believe that if there is good will on the other hand, what can happen during the meetings with the Secretary General in June 2017 and November 2019 can yield results. Of course in 2017 he attributed the Summit to Crans Montana. In 2019 in Berlin, unfortunately, despite the agreement of the leaders with the Secretary General and despite the joint announcement outlining the parameters that a dialogue could move, it failed due to the interventions of Ankara, the objections and pretexts it used in order to avoid a resumption of substantive negotiations. “, with the ultimate goal, based on the work that had been produced in previous years, to continue reaching an agreement”, he added.

“I would be over-optimistic, I would say, given Mr Tatar’s position, reiterating what Ankara has said, that there could be a positive outcome. But what matters is that the meeting takes place, that we are determined to give what is needed, in the sense of interpreting proposals that have been tabled, even if the other side shows good will and redefines goals, to create conditions that to allow us to be led into a new dialogue. I am not as optimistic as I would like to be in the face of the repeated statements of either Mr. Erdogan or Mr. Tsavousoglu or of what is being said orally by Mr. Tatar and the Turkish positions on a two-state solution or the recognition of his sovereignty as a prerequisite for dialogue. illegal formation. I want to hope that after the strong condemnations from both the SA and the EU, but also from a number of countries that have a role to play in the international arena, that positions that have been submitted to the Secretary-General during the informal meeting in April will be repositioned or changed. Geneva and it is a wish that I express that there is hope for a shift from the positions they expressed then, and I say a wish because unfortunately the same is repeated today by Mr Tatar.

For my part, I will convey to the Secretary-General the various alternative proposals from time to time to resolve the stalemate, whether they were about decentralizing powers to reduce potential conflicts at the center of either parliamentary democracy or substantive MOEs resumption of the dialogue or the very recent reference to a return to the Constitution of the ’60s, under certain conditions, of course, to ensure the continued existence of the state and its evolution into what has been agreed in the Summit Agreements and based on UN resolutions . Therefore, referring to the Establishment Treaties, we also refer to the prohibition of union of part or all or partition of part or all with any state or secession from the central state and therefore the basis of negotiation is restored as originally agreed beyond the Turkish claims for recognition. , he stressed.

“If we followed Mr. Tatar’s example, it would be easy for us, and absolutely justified, if we set as a condition for the resumption of the dialogue the termination of the guarantees and the withdrawal of the occupying troops or the territorial adjustments so that there is something that will not satisfy “only one but also the two communities and in particular will respond to the concerns of the Greek Cypriots”, he supported, adding:

΅ “What I will emphasize to the Secretary-General is that the terms of reference and the resolutions provide the common ground for the resumption of the dialogue without ignoring until Cran Montana the work produced through convergences, through agreements that have been reached.

The regular meeting with the Secretary General will take place tomorrow at 5.55 pm (New York time) “.

Referring to his agenda, the President said that due to the measures to deal with the pandemic, the physical presence of many leaders is limited, he added, however, that he will have meetings, among others, with the President of the Security Council, the President of Germany, The President of Iraq, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, will have a dinner with the Permanent Representatives of the five Permanent Members of the SA, will have a meeting with the Archbishop of America, Mr. Hopefully, he will meet with the American-Jewish organization AIPAC, while on September 24 he will attend a dinner given by the expatriate organizations.

Referring to his meeting with the Director-General of UNESCO today, the President said that he had explained Of International Law and especially of the Nicosia Convention for the criminalization of those who traded anciently “.

He added that he would also meet with African leaders at an EU-African dinner, where he would brief on Turkey’s efforts to recognize or establish ties to the illegal regime.

He also said that he will have a meeting with senior executives of EXXON Mobil to find out what stage his plans are in block 10.

He added that “at the same time, the Foreign Minister will have an even heavier information program for foreign ministers representing the states instead of the leaders, in order to convey our message and positions, but also to prevent the efforts made by Turkey to establish relations.” or to prevent the possible recognition of the illegal formation. “There is nothing similar on the horizon but the forecast and the forecast are much better and the measures that should be taken are much preferable if they are taken in time instead of afterwards”.

Asked what the UN Secretary-General expects to do given the position of the Turkish Cypriot side on two states and the Greek Cypriot side on the ’60 Constitution, the President said change the solution base, with a proposal that wants to restore order in terms of the procedure to be followed or the final solution. The return to the provisions of the Constitution of ’60 responds to the allegations of the Turkish Cypriot side that we exclude it from participating in the administration of the country and that it is immediately a Greek Cypriot administration. Secondly, it refers to High Level Agreements, UN resolutions and EU authorities seeking a solution. The High Level Agreements are clear and determine what the solution will be, the resolutions and the terms of reference of the Secretary General are the same, ie they do not deviate from the agreed solution basis at all. On the contrary, with the reference to the Constitution of ’60 we restore the right basis, based on the Establishment Treaties and the evolution of the Republic of Cyprus based on the Summit Agreements. That was my statement and that should be restrained and not the isolation that some have preferred to consider that we are returning to the united state. It would be a wishful thinking if we could do something similar. But after 1974 and the urgent need for high-level agreements determined the form of solution. What we are asking for is a solution that leads to a truly functioning state that ensures duration, continuity and protection of the human rights of all the inhabitants of the Republic of Cyprus. “Therefore, the parallelism or correlation with the out-of-context UN proposals of the Turkish Cypriots has nothing to do with the return or reference to conditions that lead to an evolution within the framework of the UN resolutions.”

Asked why he is now making this proposal and did not do so years ago, the President said: two states. It’s a response (my suggestion) to a return to the UN resolutions and to the terms of the Secretary-General ‘s mandate. “

Asked what he can expect from Mr Erdogan’s stance, the president said: “I have said that there is little hope for a positive outcome and that, as you rightly note, is due to Turkish intransigence, the Turkish revisionist stance. Ankara’s neo-Ottoman orientations, which do not only concern the Cyprus issue but extend to the questioning of Greece’s sovereign rights in the Aegean, intervene in Libya, Syria, Iraq and do not fail to expand in the Caucasus, intervening between Armenia and Azerbaijan. We are watching not just rhetoric, but in practice a disastrous, in my view, vision of Turkey which may seem to be creating a superpower, but this will be seen over time, how it can lead to an economic and not only “the destruction of a country with Mr. Erdogan’s over-optimistic fantasies.”

Asked to comment on reports that Ms Luth was leaving, the President said: in conflict with the interests of either Turkey or Cyprus. What I want to say is that a similar proposal, that is, for the appointment of a special envoy and the start of negotiations on issues related to the two communities, Mr. Guterres had submitted in Geneva during the informal meeting. Our side immediately accepted the invitation, the Turkish side rejected it. I will reiterate that we agree with a similar position of the Secretary General with an active role in shaping the situation by a special envoy and let us hope that those who rejected it will listen to the Secretary General this time if they are in good faith. “