TRNC President Mehmet Ali Talat has expressed the TC Side’s readiness to negotiate the Greek Cypriot proposals in the second leg of consecutive talks. Answering the questions of a Greek Cypriot newspaper, the President said the first leg of the talks rather focused on the discussion of the TC proposals on Governance and Power-Sharing.
President Talat explained that foreign relations that the two constituent states will establish were a prior subject during the first round of consecutive discussions.
He said negotiations that will follow the completion of the second leg of intensified talks can only be maintained under some preconditions.
He complained that the Greek Cypriot Leader Dimitris Christofias doesn’t want to hear the word ‘progress’.
Hopeful towards achieving progress during intensified talks, the President noted that the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will visit Cyprus to encourage both sides in their peace efforts, if progress is really achieved.
On the upcoming presidential elections in the TRNC in April, he said he will most probably announce his decision on candidacy in February.