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‘EVERY THING GOING AS PLANNED DURING CYPRUS NEGOATIONS PROCESS’

Evaluating the negotiations process to the Bayrak Television Newsroom, President Mehmet Ali Talat’s special advisor for the Cyprus negotiations process Ozdil Nami said that the comprehensive negotiations process was starting against after a intense preparatory phase.

He said everything was going as planned.

Responding to speculations that negotiations on power sharing and governance were not going too well and that the negotiations process was failing, Mr. Nami said ‘circles who think that the two leaders can come to an agreement on power sharing and governance just after 3 meetings is living in a fantasy world. They must be more realistic’.

Explaining that the issue of executive authority had only been discussed for two meetings, Mr. Nami said that a list, present in the Annan Plan, has been made.

He said the two sides were putting forward their opinions regarding the list and changes and they wanted made to the lists.

He reminded there was no requirement or condition to finalize all issues before moving forward on the negotiations process.

Stressing that it was not right to evaluate the whole negotiations process just based on the two meetings that have taken place, Mr. Nami said very important agreements had been reached between the two leaders during the negotiations process, something which should be kept in perspective’.

Commenting on the negative statements the Greek Cypriot leader Dimitris Hristofias, Mr. Nami said when the Greek Cypriot leader said ‘equal founding states’ he was actually trying to undermine the 23rd of May agreement that was reached between the two sides.

Referring to the issues of guarantees, he said the Turkish Cypriot people must feel protected and safe and therefore could not foresee any system absent from Turkey’s effective and active guarantee.

Explaining that it was the first time the Greek Cypriot side had questioned the issue of guarantees during the negotiations process, Mr. Nami reminded that the first thing agreed between the sides in the past were the issue of guarantees.

Ozdil Nami concluding by saying there was a greater chance of reaching a solution than not reaching one itself during the negotiations process.