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Tsavousoglou incendiary rhetoric: ‘The only occupation in Cyprus took place in 1963’

The only occupation in Cyprus took place in 1963, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoλουlu said, adding that since then the United Nations peacekeeping force has been stationed on the island.

According to the Cyprus News Agency, in a teleconference at a UN Ministerial meeting on peacekeeping co-organized by the South Korean Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense, the Turkish Foreign Minister said that the success of peacekeeping activities The United Nations needs everyone’s agreement, and the same goes for Cyprus.

He added that the former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also mentioned it in his speech on the Cyprus issue. “I want to emphasize that for the activities of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus, the UN must also receive the approval of the Turkish side. I want to remind you that the only occupation on the island took place in 1963, and this paved the way for The UN peacekeeping force was established on the island in 1964 “, the Turkish Foreign Minister argued, referring essentially to the decision of Archbishop Makarios in 1963 to amend 13 points of the Constitution, on the occasion of which the Turkish Cypriots withdrew from the structures of the Cypriot state and were closed.

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Source From: Capital

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