Cyprus-Forum.com

[halil]

Property experts from the United Nations are holding separate meetings withTurkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot teams in New York within the framework of the Cyprus negotiations.

The goal is to help the achievement of further progress on the Property Chapter of Cyprus talks in technical terms.

Some officials from the UN told the Anatolian News Agency that TC leader Derviş Eroğlu and the Greek Cypriot Leader Demetris Christofias accepted an offer by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon during the Geneva meeting, on technical assistance to be provided by the UN experts regarding the Property issue.

The UN officials said that a Greek Cypriot team of property experts are meeting with a UN group in New York now.

They noted that the Turkish Cypriot team will be holding similar meetings with UN experts next week.

The majority of the UN property team is consisting of American experts.

[halil]

TRNC President Derviş Eroğlu has verified earlier reports in the Greek Cypriot Alitihia newspaper that the United Nations has found the Turkish Side’s proposals on the property issue as positive. Commenting on the issue yesterday, President Derviş Eroğlu reminded of the Turkish Side’s proposal to put Turkish properties in the South up for evaluation and to be exchanged with former Greek Cypriot properties in the TRNC.

“Both the United Nations Secretary General and several other foreign sources had told us that they supported our proposals. As a result what the newspaper wrote is true” he added.

Pointing out that a team of Greek Cypriot property experts would be holding contacts in New York; Eroğlu said that he too would be sending a team of experts to New York.

“We shall continue discussions once the teams return to the island. The Secretary General’s plan is that we hold discussions on the property issue before he invites us for another tripartite meeting at the end of March” the President added.