Kifeas wrote:No Kifeas you still do not get it do you, try to think out of your rigid box,
Unlike many of you here, I am thinking way out of the rigid box!all TCs want is to see the structure put before them like the AP or just like you put forward with power sharing and even I accepted, no more no less, once you realize that we want to be partners and have a say in our own future then you will have solved what TCs want.
To get to see a power structure, like you say, we have first to go through a process of examining the real facts and merits of the parameters pertaining to a solution, and then negotiate in good faith towards the formulation of a comprehensive solution. This is the platform the “8th of July” agreement sought to create! And because the two men cannot deal alone with the whole volume of things and issues that need to be sorted out, that is why it is important for most of the work to be carried out by technical committees constituted by experts in each area. Fifteen months have gone since the agreement, without this being achieved, just because your leader things he has or can do all this job alone, through meetings with Papadopoulos, and he doesn’t even know exactly how many the settlers in the north are, and what amount of properties and where each community owns!
I know the power structure I propose can be accepted by the majority of ordinary TCs, as well as by the majority of the GCs and as far as I know even by Papadopoulos, because it takes both sides’ genuine and legitimate concerns well into consideration and is affordably democratic, balance and functional! The problem is that such proposal cannot be accepted by your leadership and Turkey, because it ignores and cancels out the illegitimate irredentist aspiration and nationalist pursuit of securing and maintaining in Cyprus a separate, purely ethnically based, Turkish sovereign sub-nation-state, that will act as a platform for Turkey’s megalomaniac ambitions to indefinitely control Cyprus as a whole, and treat it as its geo-strategic protectorate; in the detriment of all Cypriots independence and self-determination, and in the expense of the GCs’ heritage rights from a substantial part of their country!
Kifeas I agree with you to certain extent but the committees issue is being used to move away from the basics of the AP which in principle will never change, do we want to start from square one with open ended negotiations_ this could go on forever just like preparing the ground for the 8th July talks. We Cypriots are not known for our business closure prowess so I support Talat in his move for time frames which are they only way to get Cypriots to do anything and at the same time force Turkeys hand. Don't forget Talat has to balance the 2 sides "RoC" vs Turkey and as you can see your guys are not making this easy, in fact you are hindering the opportunity for Talat to move closer to the south and away from Turkey. If I were your leadership I would have accepted reasonable time frames just to get the ball rolling if that's in fact what I wanted which I doubt very much your leadership as the desire to take such a bold move as they have 90% of they want.
