AKEL and CTP express apprehension over latest developments in Cyprus issue

 

Tuesday, 14 October, 2014

(KYPE)

AKEL Secretary General Andros Kyrpianou expressed the wish that on-going diplomatic efforts will allow Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades to return to the negotiation`s table the soonest possible.

Kyprianou was speaking after a two-hour meeting with a delegation from the Republican Turkish Party, headed by its President Ozkan Yiorgancioglu, at AKEL headquarters, in Nicosia.

He added that by wasting precious time, efforts for a Cyprus solution, on the basis of relevant UN resolutions and the High Level Agreements, will only be hindered.

Moreover, the Secretary General of AKEL repeated his call to the President of the Republic to utilize the convergences of the past, reached by former President Demetris Christofias and the previous Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali

 

Talat, in order to facilitate the negotiations process, once it resumes.

He added that President Anastasiades retains the right to negotiate further on issues he deems necessary to do so.

Otherwise, he said, the President will “only provide an alibi for Eroglu to hide behind our unpreparedness to resume negotiations from where they stopped”.

Kyprianou said that together with Yiorgancioglu they expressed their apprehension over the latest developments in the Cyprus issue.

He concluded by saying that all Greek Cypriot parties agree that the Cyprus problem must be solved through negotiations.

Speaking through an interpreter, RTP President Ozkan Yiorgancioglu said from his part that they discussed with the leadership of AKEL the latest developments in the Cyprus issue, which, he said, “annoyed us all”.

“Our common wish is to resume negotiations that have been interrupted” he said, while calling the newly-appointed UN Secretary General`s Special Adviser to contribute towards this aim.

Yiorgancioglu also noted that the parties` common assessment is that a Cyprus solution is possible, on the basis of the agreements between the two sides and the convergences that were reached between Christofias and Talat.