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Gul asked China to invite Talat to Beijing and demanded the country's support as regards the Annan Plan
Turkish Cypriot daily YENI DUZEN newspaper (03.02.05) reports that Mr Abdullah Gul, the Turkish Minister of Foreigner Affairs asked the Republic of China to invite the pseudo prime minister Mehmet Ali Talat to China. Mr Gul also asked for the country's support as regards the Annan Plan. Mr Gul is currently in Beijing, paying an official visit to the Republic of China.
Mr Gul demanded from China, which is an active member of the UN Security Council, to help towards the approval of the Genera-Secretary Annan's report about the Annan Plan. He also asked from his Chinese opposite number Mr Li Caosing, to invite the pseudo prime minister Mehmet Ali Talat to China, in order to inform him directly about the Cyprus problem. As the paper writes, Mr Gul is getting ready to ask from other members of the UN Security Council, like the USA and Britain, to invite Mr Talat in order to listen to his views.

Mr Gul, who met in China also with the Chinese Prime Minister Mr Ven Ciabao, stated that Turkey wants the solution of the Cyprus Problem and stated that if the Annan Plan was accepted, a long distance would have been covered.

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Talat says that the Turkish Cypriots were not given any promises before the 24 April referendums
Turkish Cypriot daily KIBRIS newspaper (02.02.05) reports that Mehmet Ali Talat, so-called Prime Minister of the occupation regime, said yesterday that the Turkish Cypriots had not been given any promises before the 24 April referendums in order to support the Annan Plan.
Asked to comment on the statement of President Papadopoulos who has reportedly noted that Talat said that the Turkish Cypriots supported the Annan Plan not because it serves their interests but because some promises had been given to them, Mr Talat argued that this is not true and that they did not support the plan believing in something else than the solution.

Mr Talat said:

"The circles that do not want the solution both in the north and in the south are putting forward the same arguments. Papadopoulos too began to say the same allegation. This is not a new argument from our point of view. We have heard it some times before. This is not true. We have not wanted the solution for something else than for what the solution would bring us. We have directly said 'yes' and conducted a campaign in the favour of 'yes' thinking of what the solution would bring to both the Turkish and the Greek community. No different promise than this was given to us, neither secretly nor openly. .".

Referring to the issue of the demand of the Turkish Cypriot side for the opening of a school in Limassol for the Turkish Cypriots living there, Mr Talat alleged that this school should be opened having the same status as the Greek Cypriot gymnasium in the occupied Karpass peninsula and that the Turkish side should operate it.