President Mehmet Ali Talat said that they wanted to unite with the world by keeping what they had gained on 20th July and that the Turkish Cypriot People desired to take place among the respected peoples of the world and to have various contacts and communications with them.
Talat also expressed that they desired to have a respected and honourable solution with the Greek Cypriot people which they had to share this island.
Talat added: “Now is the time for a solution” and continued that their vision was a new partnership state bi-zonality and two politically equal people and equal status of the two founder states. Talat added that they shall never give up political equality and two equal states.
President Mehmet Ali talat expressed that the presence of Turkish army in Cyprus was not the cause but it was the result of the Cyprus problem therefore it was out of question to remove the result before the cause is removed.
Pointing out that the solution of the Cyprus problem was not going to be easy Talat called the Greek side to be in a more constructive attitude.