President Mehmet Ali Talat is on his way to New York where he will meet with the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.
During his meeting with the UN chief, the President will explain the Turkish Cypriot Side’s views on necessary initiatives for a comprehensive solution to the Cyprus Problem
The meeting between the President and the UN Chief will take place on Tuesday.
Also commenting on the issue of the international isolations, the President said the right to travel is one of the fundamentals of the human rights.
Reminding that Turkish Cypriots were one of the founding partners of the Cyprus Republic, he repeated that the UN is the only platform for removing the international isolations of the Turkish Cypriot people and finding a comprehensive solution to the Cyprus problem.
Mr Talat said he will ask the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to take an initiative for re-start of the negotiations process which will lead to the solution of the Cyprus problem. he will ask Mr Ban to be more active in taking up the former UN Chief Kofi Annan’s report which is still waiting to be discussed at the UN Security Council.
Stating that the Turkish Cypriot Side should prove its readiness both in opinion and practice, the President said that the Turkish Cypriot People will look to the future in confidence unless it has the responsibility for the non-solution.
Noting that the most important altruism by the Turkish Cypriot Side was smoothing the insistence on the Annan plan it has approved, Mr Talat said that the Annan plan which was seen as a diabolical plan by the Greek Cypriot Side has not been turned into a matter of dispute adding that in any case, it is known that the solution to the Cyprus problem will be reached within the UN parameters.
The President went on to say that during his meeting with the UN Chief he will present some proposals for the improvement of relations between the two communities on the island.
‘The two sides should cooperate for humanitarian and emergency issues. We will share this view with Mr Ban and express our readiness for this cooperation. If relations between the two communities get worsened this will harm both the North and the South of Cyprus’ Mr Talat said.