Bananiot wrote: What I said Kikapu was that Talat seems to be interested on getting direct trade at this point of time.
That’s obvious. But he is also betting on the recognition possibility as well. So nothing new upto here.
wrote: Talat has called upon Papadopoulos on numerous occasions for direct talks
Direct talks as you very well know are impossible to lead anywhere without data and work by technocrats. Direct talks can only lead to some high level agreement (very vague) like the ones we had before. To proceed forward you need data and you need technocrats. Papadopoulos never refused to meet with Talat assuming those technocrats pull themselves together and start doing work. Talat refuses. The reason????
wrote: but Papadopoulos evades the call by arguing that the key to the solution is held by Ankara.
Nonsense. What exactly Papadopoulos said is Talat got orders from Ankra to kill the technical comittees and insist on direct talks
on the Anan plan only. This is nwhat he actually said about Ankara. You are distorting things.
wrote: It is plain obvious now that Papadopoulos does not want a solution based on a bizonal, bicommunal federation made up of two equal communities.
In your opinion of course. Not many will agree with you.
wrote: Thus, he is trying to buy time by trying to embark on a process that will take years (July 8 agreement) and has made this process his flagship.
Question 1)Why the 8th July agreement needs 8 years? Just because Talat says so?
Question2) what has Talat done to speed it up? Perhaps refuse to even incluude the property issue on?
Question 3)Why even the UN the EU and even KTOS ask Talat to proceed as per 8th July agreement?
wrote: Papadopoulos has managed to instill in many people his philosophy that the current situation is better than bizonal, bicommunal federation.
Wrong. The Annan Plan itself made people believe the current situation is better than the Annan Plan. The vast majority of people care about their own rights than the political rights and form of Federation. Call it BBF XZF if you like, if I am losing 2/3rds of my property I don’t care how you call it I will still vote no.
wrote: Hence, Talat is moving north Cyprus forward and the construction boom that is currently taking place in the north bears testament to this fact.
The constrcuction boom and the sale of GC properties en masse
is a planned effort to cemment partition by making the solution absolutely impossible. Or if the Gcs ever accept to have nothing to gain. wrote: Meanwhile, he has completely alienated the Greek Cypriots from the rest of the world and all those people that matter have basically switched alliance over the past 4.5 years and now favour the Turkish Cypriots and consider the Greek Cyupriots as the real culprits that hold back the solution process.
We saw how all those "friends" ever helped us. Tons of UN resolutions worth nothing, and which when the time came were all ignored thrown in the dustbin, (Anan Plan). We don’t need "friends". We need people
who will lose if we lose. That’s why we are in the EU. And you better believe me, if we lose at least 250 million more will lose.Add to that the 80 million Turks.