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TRNC President Derviş Eroğlu who is continuing his contacts in the German capital Berlin has met with the German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. Speaking after the one hour long meeting Mr. Eroğlu said he held a warm and a sincere meeting with the German Foreign Minister.
TRNC President Eroğlu said he had a chance to express the Turkish side’s expectations from the European Union as well as its views over the negotiations process.
Describing Germany as a strong power which would help lifting the international isolations on the TRNC, he expressed the hope that Germany would provide its support for the lifting of the isolations.
He noted that the opening of TRNC Representation Office in Germany was also discussed during the meeting.
On German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s upcoming visit to South Cyprus, Eroğlu said he told the German Minister that he wish Mrs. Merkel would cross into the TRNC to see the realities on the island.
As part of his contacts in Berlin, the President met with the Co-chair of the German Greens Party Claudia Roth yesterday.
After the meeting, Eroğlu told Bayrak Television that he had a very warm meeting with Mrs Roth during which they discussed the negotiations process and Turkish Side’s proposals on the issue of property.
Also speaking to the Bayrak Television, Claudia Roth said she found Eroğlu’s views on the issue of property as realistic.
Mrs Roth said she assured the TRNC President that she will do her best in order to demolish the latest wall in Europe and added that it is natural to negotiate issues especially property and security in order to remove walls like the Berlin Wall.
Yesterday, Eroğlu also attended a gathering organized by the German Turkish Community under the title of Turkish-German Perspectives.
The President informed participants in detail on the course of the negotiations process.
The realities that she will see are an impoverished community caused by its intransigence and own will. Your community has been given option by the ONLY President on Cyprus to make steps toward a unified society and you have refused. You have refused an opportunity where your people could be making real salaries, you have refused an opportunity for confidence building, you have refused an opportunity for rebuilding Your Country and Ours. She will see a place where not a lot of people own anything that's really theirs and meet with a leader whose only proposition forward is that refugees will have to buy back their own properties and the vast majority will be kept out simply because of their ethnicity. I don't think Europe is in the business of creating racist regimes.