Today we had a meeting with the British All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cyprus. We took the opportunity of this meeting to inform the Group on the current phase which the Cyprus problem is at, as well as about what needs to be done in order to make it possible to break the deadlock and continue the negotiations on the Cyprus problem with the aim of achieving a solution.

We have stressed that, bearing in mind the fact that Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot leadership have officially moved towards a two-state solution, the only realistic way for us to be able to achieve the resumption of the negotiations and have a realistic possibility of resolving the Cyprus problem, is to continue the negotiations from the point where they were left in Crans Montana in 2017, to preserve the convergences that have been achieved after long and hard efforts, and at the same time to negotiate on the outstanding issues of the Guterres framework.

We also had a discussion with the friends of Cyprus about the need for the British Parliament, including with their own intervention, to move in various ways towards exerting influence on Turkey in order to change its negative stance, to return to the negotiating table with the aim of finding a solution to the Cyprus problem.

Finally, we thanked the All-Party Parliamentary Group of the British Parliament for its continued positive stance on Cyprus and  the solution to the Cyprus problem; and at the same time we exchanged views on how its members can continue to help in this direction.

29.01.2025