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Turkish Cypriot Side is to open a quadruple Cyprus summit, involving the two sides in Cyprus as well as Turkey and Greece.

At his weekly press briefing today, the Presidential Spokesperson Hasan Ercakica also left the door open for a quintet meeting on the Cyprus issue, involving Britain too.

The statements on a possible quintet meeting came amid today’s private meeting held between President Mehmet Ali Talat and the British High Commissioner in Cyprus Peter Millet at the Presidential Palace.
Yet, Mr Ercakica noted that there has been no certainty reached over the organization of such a summit.

The TRNC Presidential Spokesperson Ercakica said that Britain, one of the guarantor powers in Cyprus, seems to own a more active role in the Cyprus solution process recently.

On negotiations, he then moved on saying that the work on “how to define” the different categories of what are “the affected properties” in the two sides in Cyprus, is expected to continue on Thursday with another meeting to be held by the special representatives Ozdil Nami and Yorgos Yakovou.

Mr. Ercakica noted that the TRNC President Mehmet Ali Talat and the Greek Cypriot Leader Dimitris Hristofyas will then be evaluating the work at their next round on Friday.

The Presidential spokesman said that progress on the Property issue will be considered an important step forward towards achieving a comprehensive settlement in Cyprus.

As for the Immoveable Property Commission operating in the TRNC, Ercakica said the Commission actually aims to bring remedy to the individual property concerns of the Greek Cypriots by according relevant rights to them, but also added that the solution of the Property issue on a communal basis is currently being work out within the framework of negotiations.

Recalling that the Cyprus issue was given prominence during a recent high level meeting in Ankara, Mr. Ercakica expressed the belief that, the fact that the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has written to his Greek counterpart Yorgos Papandreou to propose to work closer together on the Cyprus issue, is a development which will have a positive effect on the solution efforts.

Meanwhile, Ercakica also announced that President Talat will be briefing the Parliament on the course of the Cyprus peace negotiations at a special session today.

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Admin pls move this topic to Cyprus problem section !!!!!!