Viewpoint wrote:Paphitis wrote:Viewpoint wrote:
Do they have an internationally binding partnership agreement? if they do then they have every right to fight for their rights.
That agreement is now null and void and an anachronism as far the EU and UN is concerned.
You wish, why do you think we are consulted and invited to matters concerning the solution as we are a party to the internationally recognized agreement.
By Denktash and Makarios agreeing to have a settlement based on BBF with political equality, the 1960 agreements more or less became redundant and can now ONLY go back to it if both sides now agree to go back to it , hence the reason why the GCs are no longer talking about any "partnership" or a "veto vote". We can see how much "partnership" and "veto power" the TCs have left from the 1960 agreements when it came to the RoC being in the EU, the RoC signing Gas & Oil contracts, the RoC representing the whole island in the UN and EU and the RoC having full recognition world over. So much for the TCs "partnership" with the GCs or the "veto vote" VP is talking about.
Because these were not in the BBF agreements, which Denktash failed to stipulate, are the reasons why the "trnc"/Turkey have been trying to get out of that BBF agreement. No doubt Denktash screwed up when he agreed to BBF in the 70's, but then again, how was he to know that in 2004 the RoC would be in the EU. As far as he was concerned, the war was won and Cyprus problem was over and the TCs were all "locked up" in the north for them to become his followers whether they liked it or not, so it was just a question of time when the north would become an independent country to be recognised by the world.
Any new settlement agreement outside BBF that will be allowed by the GCs as I see it, is for them to agree on a Unitary state with EU Principles, or else stay with the present BBF agreements with UN resolutions. The TCs can pick their choice for a settlement, or stay as they are now and become completely insignificant amongst the settlers in the near future. The GCs and Turkey will wait until ALL the TCs are gone in the north in one form or the other when they will have virtually zero political power and for them to cut a deal together regarding Turkey's interests in the region, as well as Turkey's EU future. The TCs then will become equivalent to the
Native American Kickapoo Tribe, almost extinct.
"Time Does Not Stand Still"!