brother wrote:So will you chaps now accept that tassos is two faced lying little judas who is decieving you as much as he is decieving the rest of the world with his fantasies which have not taken place.
Slightly stronger than I would have put it bro, but in some ways valid. I'm just quite interested in the mechanism that TPap cited the proposal had been made.
Strictly speaking, for a 'formal request' to have been made, it would have been in writing to the Secretary-General. On CNA yesterday at 1447, they posted a report saying that TPap "...explained that the proposal had been conveyed through the Cyprus Republic's Permanent Representative to the UN". There was no qualification in his statement that the proposal had not been delivered to Annan personally or to his office, but had been suggested during a meeting with Kieran Prendergast, the Under-Secretary-General. Instead it was stated quite clearly that "President Tassos Papadopoulos said today that the Greek Cypriot side had proposed to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to launch a new initiative to solve the Cyprus problem".
Either this was bad reporting on the part of CNA, or TPap dropped a bollock on this one and is now rapidly backpedalling. Whatever, it was bad form to, if not lie, at least to in some way deceive people as to what happened. It'll be interesting to see what else comes out about this.