TRNC NEWS HEADLINES

NEGOTIATIONS RESUME ON FRIDAY

President Mehmet Ali Talat and the Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias will meet again on Friday to resume talks on finding a comprehensive settlement. President Mehmet Ali Talat and the Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias met 20 days ago.

The two leaders will meet at 9.30 in the morning as announced earlier to continue discussing the issue of executive power.

The leaders who determined the procedure of the meetings on 3 September started comprehensive negotiations on 11 September with the issue of executive power.

It is expected that after completing the issue of executive power they shall start to discuss the issue of property.

DOWNER COMING TO THE ISLAND

The UN Secretary General’s Special Advisor to Cyprus Alexander Downer will be arriving in Cyprus tomorrow and he will meet separately with the two leaders before negotiations resume on Friday. He will also be present at the meeting on Friday.

The UN Special Advisor had met with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon last week where he briefed him on the latest developments on the Cyprus Problem.

ERCAKICA “TALAT TRIES TO BALANCE THE DISTORTIONS OF HRISTOFYAS”



TRNC Presidential Spokesman Hasan Ercakıca stated that the distortions of the leader of Greek Cypriot Administration Dimitris Hristofyas at the international platform were tried to be balanced by TRNC President Mehmet Ali Talat in a statement made in Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) where he expressed the basic ways of the Cyprus problem once again.



Ercakıca pointed out that Talat was pleased for finding a possibility to express his attitude concerning the Cyprus problem.



Hasan Ercakıca also said that the Greek Cypriot side tried to prevent President Talat to make a speech in PACE.



Stating that although Hristofyas tried to use a flexible language in his speech in PACE, he called the Turkish Cypriots “to join their own state”, Ercakıca said:



“The Cyprus problem will be solved with a partnership state which will be established by the free will of two peoples as determined before by the two leaders on the basis of equal status of two constituent states and two people.”



HRISI AVGI IS ON THE AGENDA IN WARSAW



Messages are continued to be given on behalf of the Turkish Cypriots in the meetings on “Humane Dimension” organized in Warsaw , capital of Poland , by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) affiliated to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe .



According to the statement released from the Foundation, the racist approach of Hrisi Avgi Organization which has operations in South Cyprus was drawn attention by the presentation made within the framework of meetings by Ergin Ballı, the Representative of “Embargoed!” which is a human rights organization in the UK.

Ballı stated that the racist, jingoist and aggressive groups are the main threats to creating a peace environment in Cyprus and underlined that the Hrisi Avgi has came into scene just before the 2004 referenda.

Ballı pointed out that Hrisi Avgi is refusing a solution in Cyprus and expressing their feelings for the Turkish Cypriots as ‘people which must be vanished’ and this group is also threatening the Greek Cypriots which are supporting a solution in Cyprus . By the way DISI which was ‘Yes’ sided in the referenda is also against Hrisi Avgi.

Ballı stated that the Hrisi Avgi continued their aggressive attitude after the referenda and gave some example about their dishonourable attitudes as protests in the borders with sticks and chains, trying to hurt Turkish Students and Greek Cypriot students which are friends with Turkish Cypriots in the English School and hit several people in the South.