The Republican Turkish Party-United Forces Leader and Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer said that negotiation process related to the Cyprus problem could only start on the basis of 23 May Agreement signed by President Mehmet Ali Talat and Greek Cypriot Administration leader Christofias.
Prime Minister Soyer stated that the agreement signed on 23 May envisaged an equal status of the Turkish and Greek Cypriot founder states.
Adding that some parties and the church in the Greek Cypriot side reacted to the ‘equality of two founder states and political equality’ principles of the agreement and they created a chaos, Soyer said that memorandum signed with England was towards by passing these principles.
ERCAKICA “THE POLICY OF PAPADOPULOS PERIOD IS BACK AGAIN”
Spokesperson of the TRNC Presidency Hasan Ercakıca stated that the meeting on 1 July between the TRNC President Mehmet Ali Talat and the leader of Greek Cypriot Administration Dimitris Christofias would be held with the agenda of starting the comprehensive solution negotiations. Stating that the Greek Cypriot Administration which had gone back to the policy of Papadopulos period desired to start direct negotiations without agreeing on any common base, Ercakıca pointed out that Turkish Cypriot side did not need any preparation for the fully-fledged negotiations.
Ercakıca said “the Greek Cypriot side has no right to dictate new rules and pre-conditions. If we start to violate the agreements which we have already agreed, it will be difficult to advance in this process. Unless we show loyalty to these agreements, we will lose the confidence factor which is the basis for the improvement of the negotiation process.”
Hasan Ercakıca pointed out that Christofias attempted to include the developments in the internal policy of Turkey or his expectations on this subject in the negotiation process and he tried to discuss this subject in his overseas contacts as “the most important problem”. Ercakıca stated that the attempt of Christofias to show Turkey as the addressee of the solution of the Cyprus problem did not mean anything except delaying the solution process.
AKEL WILL VOTE “NO” TO THE TREATY OF LISBON
Greek Cypriot press wrote that Communist AKEL, the ruling party, decided to vote “no” to the Treaty of Lisbon, known as the EU Constitution, which will be submitted for approval at Greek Cypriot Assembly on 3 July 2008.
Spokesperson of AKEL Parliament Nikos Katsuridis emphasized in a written statement that Treaty of Lisbon would be refused by AKEL due to the fact that it does not serve European peoples and specially workers’ interests, according to the news published in the Greek Cypriot press.
On the other hand, DISI, which is the main opposition party, reacted against the decision of AKEL and drew attention that the attitudes of AKEL towards the EU has not changed.
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