Cyprus: Tatar ultimatum to Nicosia – UN for acceptance of its terms

As an ultimatum, Ersin Tatar sets his demand that the claims of the Turkish side in the Cyprus issue be accepted in order for the process to proceed. The leader of the Turkish Cypriots, leaning on the shoulders of Ankara (as he himself constantly admits), tells both the Greek Cypriot side and the UN that the only way to solve the Cyprus issue is through the proposals he submitted. From the Greek Cypriot side, despite the negative messages constantly coming from the occupied countries, the assessment is expressed that Tatars and Ankara will realize that their demands cannot be accepted and begin to diversify.

Ersin Tatar, referring in an interview to the new policy followed by the Turkish Cypriot side after his election, argued that “the new policy based on sovereign equality and equal international status, went through a series of procedures”.

Recalling that it has been a year since “the new political framework based on sovereign equality and equal international status” was first presented at the UN in Geneva, Tatar said that all this was presented to all relevant bodies at the tripartite meeting in New York in October 2021, that this was done with the full support of Turkey and that Ankara is in favor of the new policy.

The leader of the Turkish Cypriots argued that a result in the Cyprus issue can only be achieved with the proposals submitted by the Turkish Cypriot side in the context of a new policy, based on sovereign equality and equal national status.

He also stated that they have received information that the proposals of the Turkish Cypriot side have been transferred to President Anastasiades and added that although they have not received an official response from the Greek Cypriot side, its representatives have made some statements. There is also information from the Greek Cypriot side that it can only discuss a set of proposals that will serve the bi-zonal, inter-communal and federal basis within the parameters of the UN, together with confidence-building measures, he said and added: “It is not possible to let’s accept this”.

Malicious suggestions

Ersin Tatar repeated in this interview that the proposals submitted by the Greek Cypriot side are malicious. This, he said, is a trap aimed at the Turkish Cypriots: “They say you will transfer the port to the supervision of the European Union, you will transfer the airport to the supervision of the UN, you will transfer Varosia to the UN. All these are malicious proposals aimed at destroying of sovereign equality of the Turkish Cypriot people and the TRNC and in recording the exclusive sovereignty of the Greek Cypriot side on the island with our own acceptance. What the Greek Cypriot administration is saying is that we can enter into a negotiation process only within the parameters of the UN which do not have has been delivering results for 50 years. This is a bi-communal, bi-zonal federation. According to our new policy, we say that there are two sides in Cyprus. We say that things can be done with the cooperation of two sides, we are talking about the cooperation of two states” .

Full sentences

He noted that as the Turkish Cypriot side, in order to further increase cooperation between the two sides, instead of confidence-building measures, on July 1 they submitted to a UN official to be transferred to Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades through UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, comprehensive proposals in four chapters that could benefit “the people of both sides” and on July 8 proposals in two chapters.

He also stated that the most important of these proposals “is the creation of a joint commission for the exploration and marketing of hydrocarbon wealth” and argued that this commission would be under the supervision of the UN, based on equality and in which representatives of the “two existing states” participate from a position that “no one’s power will be imposed on the other side”.

Source: philenews.com