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Ambassadors in Cyprus of the 5 permanent members of the United Nations Security Council attended a lunch hosted by President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Mehmet Ali Talat today.

Mehmet Ali Talat will fly to Italy tomorrow to meet with the Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.

President Talat will hold contacts in Spain between the 25th and 27th of February, as guest of the Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero.


Talat also had meeting with German Minister Hoyer.(13/2/2010)

here is the some notices from their meeting.

Following is the statement made by President Talat and Minister Hoyer :


Hoyer: “It is a great pleasure to be here after more than 10 years back to this place at which i met with your predecessor Mr. Denktaş several times. I am very grateful that you allow me to be here again. The German government is of course very much interested in what is going on with your talks with your partners on the other side, and we are encouraged by what we hear from the Secretary-General who visited this beautiful island a few days ago. We probably cannot do very much but I would like to encourage you to move up and speed up the process in which considerable progress has been made and I hope that this is going to continue very soon because loss of time does not help so we just like to wish you success in the negotiations for the benefit of all people on this island.”

Talat: “Thank you very much. It is a pleasure to receive you here. Actually it is true that we made quite good progress in the negotiations although we are not totally satisfied with the pace of the negotiations. In any case it is not possible to deny the progress. Really it is necessary to expedite the process and the SG’s visit was a great opportunity for that. Although we could not exploit it totally. It caused a good boost to our discussions, our negotiations. We are already encouraged to continue in more expedited manner but i think remember the Greek Cypriot side and the EU needs more encouragement. Actually we need a solution desperately but the Greek Cypriot side is a member of the EU and is more comfortable. They need encouragement and this can be done by the EU and the EU member states. A few days ago, I was in Brussels. I gave the same message to the President of the European Parliament and also the members of the institutions and permanent representations in Brussels of the member states. I think we will be able to make more progress if we can continue to negotiate and actually expedite the process and in near future we will be able to resolve this protracted problem once and for all. That is our target. With your help, with the help of international community, European Union and Germany we will succeed. Thank you once again for your visit and I hope the interest of Germany continues.”

Hoyer: “I can also arrive from the fact that the EU and its member states are firmly committed to progress on Cyprus. Sometimes it is very difficult to express it. I have seen wonderful places this morning with the help and guidance of Mr. Nami because I must say it is breathtaking to see wonderful pieces of architecture being restored. This is a little sign of solidarity from the side of the EU to support this. I am aware that in way of infrastructure and other areas a lot more is in the pipeline. It takes sometimes a little bit too long to make it visible but the commitment of the EU is there and also I would like to say that we have very friendly talks today with our collegues in the Greek Cypriot community and your republic of Cyprus and it made me very positively determined to say that obviously you are in very good track and i keep my fingers cross that with speeded up process, you will be successful very soon for the benefit of all your citizens.

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Hassan kemal from UK/Kyrenia comments:

Turkish North Cyprus is a truely banana republic and I think most of my fellow TCs are unable to notice the difference between civilised world and TRNC.

They are blinded with amount of money they have recently made by illegally selling other peoples land and houses.

I am not saying that the GCs are angels.

Of course they have treated us inhumanly in the past but that was in the past.

Today, in TRNC consumers have no rights. Most of the shops displaying signs '' No refund''.

Hospitals are appaling, no medication and lack basic hygene.

My uncle is currently being treated in North Cyprus Hospital suffering from Alzheimer’s

Hospital run out of medication and today 16th of Feb 2010 he is chained to the bed. His human rights is being violated by the TRNC.

Hospital asked his elderly wife to supply medication from a private pharmacy.

This is the today's reality in North Cyprus.

I think people need to wake up and have look around and see how the whole world moved forward while they have taken several steps back.

If we ever have a settlement there is going to be a long road ahead for TCs

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/christofias-i-am-not-stalling-over-talks/20100214

is this true?