Turkish Cyprus president slams Christophias over speech at UN
President of Turkish Cyprus Talat lashed out at Greek side leader Christophias for his speech at the UN General Assembly.
Wednesday, 30 September 2009 17:13
President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus(TRNC), Mehmet Ali Talat lashed out at Greek Cypriot leader Dimitris Christophias for his speech at the UN General Assembly.
At a press conference Wednesday, Talat said Christophias opened a reckless war on UN parameters for the solution of the Cyprus issue and urged the UN to stop this insolence.
Talat said Christophias mentioned in his UN speech that in time Republic of Cyprus would evolve into a federation comprising of two autonomous areas. Talat said this was a diversion from a bizonal solution based on political equality of two founding states, agreed by the two leaders on May 23, 2008 and an attempt to distort the UN Parameters.
Criticizing the UN SG Ban Ki-Moon for being too passive against the Greek Cypriot side, Talat said the UN parameters crafted in 40 years of negotiations was approved by the Security Council in numerous occasions and urged the UN to warn Christophias's approach which he said was unacceptable.
Talat said he invited Ban to Cyprus adding that he insisted upon learning that Ban had no plans of visiting Cyprus.
"Since he did not invite us to New York, and choose to be so passive, I said he could at least come to Cyprus. I hope he will consider it," said Talat.
He said though the Greek Cypriot side agreed to do so, it did not say "founding states" but said "autonomous zone" and was not loyal to the agreement.
"Autonomous zone! This means we went back to 1974. Two Autonomous zones!! This is outrageous. UN needs to say stop to this," said Talat.
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