The Presidential Palace should abandon fake news and give a reply on the substance
Statement by the General Secretary of AKEL Andros Kyprianou
AKEL C.C. Press Office, 28 February 2019, Nicosia
I express my regret that the Presidential Palace feels the need to make statements seeking to shift the debate that is underway on the Guterres framework elsewhere. This occurred yesterday with the allegations it made that I supposedly said that there was no meeting on 4 July 2017 at Crans Montana. Unfortunately the media reproduced these fake news, without even bothering to look into what was actually said.
Yesterday morning in an intervention on the state radio replying to a journalist’s question, I merely pointed out who was present at the meeting. I have never said and never implied that no meeting took place between the two leaders or any other meeting.
The Presidential Palace should abandon fake news and give a reply on the substance. The Secretary-General of the United Nations in all his Reports starting with the Report submitted in September 2017 refers to a framework of 30th June. The Presidential Palace has never reacted to these references by rejecting them. Mr. Anastasiades himself in a letter to the UN Secretary General on 18th July 2017 invokes the framework of 30th June.
Consequently, the President is called upon to give an answer.
Why does he invoke the framework of 30th June at an international level, but on the domestic front he tries to convince the people that there is a 4th July framework, culminating in the embarrassing changer statement that “there is an oral document”?
This is the essence and the Presidential Palace must provide an answer to it.
