by zan » Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:50 am
MEP in pledge to name and shame Ledra St blockers
Saturday, 10 November 2007
AUSTRIAN M.E.P. Karin Resetarits said yesterday if she felt one side or the other was obstructing the opening of a crossing point at Ledra Street, she...
would make it public.
Resetarits was one of five MEPs from the European Parliament’s Contact Group for Relations with the Turkish Cypriots who wrapped up a visit to the island yesterday.
She said the opening of the Ledra crossing point would show there was some will towards reconciliation and added it was something ordinary people wanted to see happen.
“It will become obvious who will be taking the steps and who will be placing the obstacles,” she told a news conference in Nicosia.
Both sides say they are ready to open Ledra Street and are only waiting for the other. The Greek Cypriot says it won’t open on its end unless all Turkish troops quit the area entirely.
German MEP Mechtild Rothe expressed concern that both communities were seeing a lack of progress, and deepening of the division but she said there was room and hope for cooperation for the future.
She said the opening of Ledra Street would be a symbolic message more than anything, and hoped that by the group’s next visit, this would be possible.
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