Insan,
You are throwing fireworks with no reason and you attach your own tags to statements made. I can also do the same and start interpreting what Talat says the way I want. You have to view everything from a more general viewpoint and not a priori reject whatever is said by the other side. I'm not telling you to endorse it, but at least break free from the mentality that anything that the other side says is to cause mizery in your side.
Did he also refer what's the connection between strong federation and majority rule, withdrawal of all Turkish troops, nullification of treaty of guarantee and alliance, non-restricted bi-zonality, return of all refugees, rapatriation of majority of settlers, restriction on political rights of remaining settlers, full political rights for all refugees who would return or settle in TCCS?
I have never heard anyone and never read any official website that specifically mentions the words "majority rules". That is your own critique and interpretation of what you may have read somewhere. Equality on everything creates a fragile situation and makes some people sceptical whether you really want reunification. Either we have to find a new formula for that, or build trust.
The presence of foreign troops, and the treaties of guarantee and alliance are key issues for the GC side, just as it is for your side. Your insistence that your safety is in danger without them is more than annihilated by the results of the turkish invasion on the GC side. You want a system that will give foreign countries `parental' rights over Cyprus: this causes great mistrust.
The issue of refugees, properties and territorial adjustment are the most complex. The principle that underlies the negotiating position of the GC side is that the most refugees (from both sides) that can return to their houses the best. Even if all refugees return to their houses in the northern part, bizonality is still ensured. The way the issue was solved with the Annan plan was partly acceptable.
As for the settlers, you have to wonder yourselves, as TCs, whether the people that were brought from Turkey in the past few years have been integrated in your society. Cause if you haven't spent time and effort to make these people feel at home, how do you expect a GC to do that? You are also implying that the solution we seek "restricts the political rights of the remaining settlers"? That is absurd, and shows how misinformed you are.
As for the political rights of the GCs that would return to the TCCS, I think that the permanent residents should be given these rights (that was in Annan 3). The non-permanent residents can still exercise their rights at the GCCS.
