Our wish and hope is that the current absence of negotiations ends
Statement by AKEL C.C. Spokesperson Stefanos Stefanou on UN Secretary General Special envoy’s meetings
AKEL C.C. Press Office, 1st December 2020, Nicosia
The fact that after a long time the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General on the Cyprus problem, Jane Hall Lutte, is back in Cyprus in an effort to revitalize the negotiation procedure represents a positive development. Our wish and hope is that the current absence of negotiations ends and we shall move forward to the resumption of the negotiations for a solution of the Cyprus problem on the agreed basis and framework.
This, of course, will depend on what Mrs. Lutte hears from the leaders of the two communities. Unfortunately, what the Turkish Cypriot leader E. Tatar has publicly stated after his meeting with Mrs. Lutte is outside the framework of the United Nations and beyond what the UN Secretary General suggests. The demand for a two-states solution is outside the Resolutions of the UN and under no circumstances can it be accepted.
In the face of these circumstances, President Anastasiades must express the Greek Cypriot community’s absolute and unwavering consistency to the solution of bi-zonal, bi-communal federation with political equality as defined in the UN Resolutions, as well as our readiness for a resumption of the talks from the point where they had remained at Crans Montana, on the basis of the Guterres Framework and the convergences that have been recorded so far. If the Turkish side insists on positions outside this framework, then it is the one that will be exposed internationally.
