halil wrote::!: NAMI ANNOUNCED THAT JANUARY’S HOME DIPLOMACY BETWEEN TALAT AND CHRISTOFIAS WON’T TAKE PLACE :!:
President Mehmet Ali Talat’s Special Representative for Negotiations Ozdil Nami has announced that President Talat and the Greek Cypriot Leader Demetris Christofias will not be holding home diplomacy in January as earlier told.
Speaking to the Bayrak Television newsroom, Ozdil Nami said the organization of home diplomacy between the two leaders was not a decision but a principle that was being debated.
He said the two sides have finally agreed to cancel the idea after technical studies carried out by the two sides proved that full day sessions to be held at the homes of the two leaders would not allow a sufficient ground.
“So, the decision now is to maintain peace negotiations in January at the residence of the UN Special Representative to Cyprus Taye-Brook Zerihoun which is located in the UN-controlled buffer zone in Nicosia ”, Nami added.
The TRNC Foreign Minister Huseyin Ozgurgun has reacted to the cancellation of home diplomacy on the Cyprus problem by saying that this has not been a surprising development.
According to the Foreign Minister, this just shows the fact that the Greek Cypriot Side had no change at all in its well-known intransigent policy over the Cyprus issue.
Mr. Ozgurgun said, from the very beginning, the Greek Cypriot Side has seen the TRNC land as the land under ‘occupation’ and argued that there was an illegal government ruling the northern part of Cyprus.
For Ozgurgun, the cancellation of home diplomacy is not surprising as that diplomacy included a leg within the TRNC territory.
“How many times we explained that it is impossible to reach a point with the Greek Cypriots. Negotiations are continuing, but the Greek Cypriot Side’s intransigency is continuing too, regardless of who is holding the TRNC Presidency”, the Foreign Minister went on saying.
He called for unity among the TC People to prove the Greek Cypriot Side’s antagonism.
Mr. Ozgurgun also said that he was saddened by the approach that the Cyprus Turkish Side was confined to a political agreement.