Preliminary greetings to you all (I will do an introductory thread in due course).
In the title to this thread, you see the means whereby you can solve the Cyprus "issue" to your tastes: or at least stand the best chance possible for doing so. This is because Henry Kissinger is, quite reasonably and responsibly from his own perspective and position at the time, the person who was primarily responsible for arranging the Cyprus situation as it now stands (and largely has done in the same state since 1974). However, you are now in the privliged and informed position, which reflects your well-researched understanding of international affairs and is, in fact, far better than the understanding which your own representative politicians seem to demonstrate, of being personally aware of who was primarily responsible for the condition your nation state currently finds itself in. This is not only fact, but I believe you can find a large number of details describing the minor decorative embellishments pertaining to this specific stated state of affairs (namely who arranged what, how and for whom) in the Soloneion bookshop (and others also in fact), named after one of the Great Seven Sages, Solon, a portion of whose wisdom you can find in my "signature" (it is not really a signature, however, but misnamed. Or at least misrepresented as something which it is not).
But how could we contract the great (though to some people distateful) Dr Henry Kissinger to negotiate our own side in the procedings with the large, American-backed Turkish state which is represented itself, along with its military, by the far-better informed and strategically insightful Mehmet Talat?, I don't hear you ask. This is due to your not asking the right questions or, perhaps, not taking any such thing seriously yet. More likely you wish to theoretically discuss solutions proposed by others (who don't really know what they are doing. much, if at all, to be somewhat diplomatic in the presentation here) as opposed to actually considering the realpolitik of the situation, how the world really works "behind the scenes" - and furthermore then utilising those forms yourselves to your own national advantage. I hasten to add that such a course of action would, of course, be far more educated a personal position to take than to simply get upset that you are being asked to realistically consider a set of topics and approaches which you are in your own ordinary experience better accustomed to engaging in from a spectator's perspective as your duly elected social and political betters (at least in their own eyes and the public authorisation) propose their own attempts at solutions. And, after all, have not all such proposed solutions since 1977 been based on the bi-cameral plan initially proposed by the recently deceased Mr Papadopoulos in that very year?
It is quite simple, to answer the perhaps rhetorical question which your own enquiring mind did nevertheless think of - or not think of - as the case may be when reading above. You do so via his firm, Kissinger Associates, based in New York. Here are the contact details, which of course it is not for anybody reading this to use, but it does prove his offices exist and that he can, through them, be contracted for to engage in legal commercical activity of a consulting and negotiating nature:
350 Park Ave # 26
New York, NY 10022
(212) 759-7919
How to do this, theoretically speaking of course? First you must be willing to pay the sort of fee he would ask for such a thing. It is in the region of a modest in fact US$7 million. You must approach with the right attitude also, of course (courteous and professional and willing to listen, a most common failing amongst Cyprus politics). Then simply state your aims, what you can bring to bear on the field, and what you want from the process.
I admit that you will not get far with any of this, however, if you cannot present to him - or his delegated representatives - a significant set of incentives or "levers of force" to be used 'against' Turkey, or perhaps more accurately in a motivating role in relation to them. In all due humility, I do personally have such levers, but refuse to enter into this process until the current President is either removed or humbles himself. What they are, however, I refuse to say and do, instead, leave anybody else who thinks they are in a position to do this to "try their best" and, preferably, to sincerely try to succeed as far as they are able, which in short means they will fail to do, in a probably humourous way.
That is to say: the power of negotiation rests on force which itself is based on ability in war. Think about it, spread the story around to your quite excellent intelligence services (I try sincerely not to laugh) and then swallow your pride and do precisely what you said you would not do for close on thirty years:
Na Xehasete how things were, and simply kindly rubber stamp the Turkish Invasion by validating their self-claimed delineated territorial boundaries. (Na Xehasete means "You will forget" and refers to the long-standing local expression of "Den Xehno", namely "I do not forget", which has now fallen into disuse).
For the record, I am neutral, aligning with neither the Greek nor the Turkish Cypriot sides in this debate, until, at least, there is a change of power in the Presidential seat in the south of the island (however long that might be and whatever I mean by that). I am simply advising how people on one side of the green line divide can make their own case more competent and better informed for currently their behavior on a political level is, frankly, humiliating and something they should be, but won't ever in public, be deeply ashamed of. After all, a partially deep political and military education is not that hard to attain, even for a tailor (after all, a former washing machine salesman managed to get one somehow; and yes, that latter does refer to Mr Talat).
What a shame that Mr Papadopoulos, who at least partially knew what he was doing, though was very stubborn, is no longer around to continue acting in an unofficial advisory capacity to the government. At least there was some point talking to him whereas currently the regime of an obedient puppett is, in my own assessment, the best we can hope for. This is not an insult however, but an oblique reference to a "puppett ruler" of a state, a well-referenced political device (yes, even in long-established democracies. Just like the U.S.A., yes).
Regards all,
Oazaki.