Any NATO involvement clashes with the Guterres Framework and the goal of freeing Cyprus from guarantors and “guardians”

 

AKEL C.C. Spokesperson Giorgos Koukoumas replies to DISY and the government

9 July 2026, AKEL C.C. Press Office, Nicosia

Cyprus is entitled to a future free from the 1960 anachronistic system of guarantor powers and without any kind of “guardians” or guarantors. At the 2017 Conference on the Cyprus problem, the UN Secretary-General had proposed, in relation to the issue of security, the abolition of the guarantee system and its replacement with a mechanism for the implementation of the solution, together with the abolition of the unilateral right of intervention and the withdrawal of the occupying forces within a short period of time.

The scenario of continuing the guarantee system with the involvement of NATO is self-evidently at odds with all that the UN Secretary-General’s Framework proposes on the issue of Security.

DISY, the Christodoulides government, and anyone else who has raised the issue of NATO’s involvement in the solution of the Cyprus problem must reply to two points:

First, do they or do they not support the position for a resumption of the negotiations from the point where they were suspended and the solution of the remaining issues on the basis of the Guterres Framework, including its provisions on security?

Second, is it logical for them to demand that the Cypriot people accept the continuation of the regime of guarantees simply because the Right’s doctrine and fervent desire is for Cyprus to become a member of NATO?