Foreign Minister Turgay Avci who is in Italy as guest of the Italian Radical Party addressed the Italian Parliament this afternoon.
He said that the International community should recognize the fact that the Turkish Cypriot people expressed their free will and fulfilled their obligation towards finding a comprehensive settlement and remove the isolations imposed on them.
Referring to the Turkish Cypriot Side’s ongoing efforts towards finding a solution to the Cyprus Problem, the TRNC Foreign Minister said that Turkish Cypriots were with the opinion that a comprehensive solution will not be found to the Cyprus Problem in the near future.
He said that the only acceptable solution for the Greek Cypriot Side was for the assimilation of the Turkish Cypriot people into a minority within a Greek Cypriot State.
Underlining the importance of strengthening the North Cyprus economy whilst working for the removal of the international isolation at the same time, Mr. Avci briefed the Italian parliamentarians on the recent economic developments that have taken place in the TRNC.
Mr Avci presented certificates of TRNC citizenship to Italian Transnational Radical Party (TRP) MP Maurizio Turco and a member of the TRP Marco Perduca. Mr Avci also presented IDs and passports to the two men – who applied for TRNC citizenship last July – at a meeting held at the Italian Parliament
Radical party planning their next anual meeting at TRNC.