Turkish Cypriot Side is ready to start fully fledged negotiations for a comprehensive solution to the Cyprus Problem.
Turkish Cypriot Side is in support of the establishment of a new partnership based on the existing UN parameters on the Cyprus Issue. and the Good Offices Mission of UN Secretary General.
Turkish Cypriot Side desired a comprehensive solution to the Cyprus Problem under the UN umbrella.
Turkey supported the Turkish Cypriot Side’s efforts to find a just and lasting peace in Cyprus.
Need to settle the Cyprus Issue on the basis of the political equality of the two sides.
Greek Cypriot leader Tassos Papadopoulos’s latest address to the UN General Assembly was an attempt to change the existing parameters on the issue so as to distort the realities on the island.
Papadopoulos was trying to associate the Cyprus problem with the presence of the Turkish Peace Forces on the island, claiming that the problem would be settled with the withdrawl of Turkish troops. These are efforts to distort Cyprus problem.
Greek Cypriot leader had rejected all proposals put forward by the Turkish Cypriot Side on speeding up the stalled 8-July process during the 5th September meeting. This negative response only served to confirm their suspicions that the Greek Cypriot Side has no intention of solving the Cyprus Problem any time soon.
Cyprus Problem had to take into perspective the realities on the island.
‘Greek Cypriots ignore their responsibilities for past mistakes. They think the conflict started in 1974. They always concentrate on the Turkish military actions, but they fail to see what happened before that, how they created the conditions for the Turkish intervention .
Greek Cypriots fail to understand the reality in the north. They don’t see the growing disparity between the two sides, and they misunderstand our wish to have our autonomy and equality.
They don’t see how the embargos they implement hurt them in the long run, giving us Turkey as our only window to the rest of the world.
Greek Cypriots think of us as inferior. They don’t understand that we have our own political institutions, that we have a democratically elected government, that we have rules and regulations under which
we administrate our society.
Greek Cypriots are preoccupied with their own victimization. They fail to see that they have victimized others. We know they have some genuine and serious concerns about their security, but they are not
at all concerned about our security. Greek Cypriots have a superiority complex, not only toward us but towards others as well. They want everything for themselves. They take all the advantages and benefits of being recognized, and they do not share it with us.