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[halil]

•The Greek Cypriot leadership should commit to share 20 per cent of any net revenue or gas from any offshore hydrocarbon resources with Turkish Cypriots, possibly distributed through a UN-supervised arrangement, as long as both parties remain formally committed to reunification. Turkish Cypriots should commit to share with the Greek Cypriots an inverse proportion of their hydrocarbon revenues from their ongoing onshore drilling activities.
•Greek Cypriots should agree with Turkish Cypriots to form a bi-communal, advisory ad hoc committee to discuss energy issues, and to plan potential domestic and industrial use of the gas throughout the island.
•Turkey and Turkish Cypriots should stop using threatening rhetoric and naval manoeuvres inside the island’s EEZ, even if they dispute its limits; and formally commit not to interfere with, or to drill in, offshore hydrocarbon blocks that are in these waters, including the new Aphrodite field and areas west of Cyprus, pending an arrangement.
•If the basic environment for dialogue is established:
•Turkey and the Republic of Cyprus should agree, possibly with third-party mediation, to discuss eastern Mediterranean energy issues, without prejudice to the UN-facilitated talks, or to any official recognition that will follow a settlement. They should study the feasibility of and consider possible cooperation on a gas export pipeline to Turkey, and onwards to Europe, with strong third-party arbitration clauses.
•Turkey, Cyprus and Greece should agree to take their claims for EEZs in the eastern Mediterranean to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) or an arbitral tribunal.

Cooperation on the exploitation of significant gas finds, which Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders agree are a common heritage, can help build confidence without prejudicing the eventual outcome of comprehensive talks. If the sides continue engaging in unilateral actions, tensions will rise, accidents will become more likely, and Turks and Greek Cypriots will be on course for a head-on collision in the eastern Mediterranean.

Nicosia/Istanbul/Brussels, 2 April 2012

http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/e ... logue.aspx

[B25]

This needs to be moved to the joke section, better still we ought to have a 'Trash' secktion and this is utter b*ll*cks. I can't even be arsed to comment further, this is just Hailililil having another wet dream.

[Piratis]

Halil, when you agree to share land and power proportionally then you can ask the same for the gas (and what is proportional for TCs in all cases is 18%)

[Me Ed]

•The Greek Cypriot leadership should commit to share 20 per cent of any net revenue or gas from any offshore hydrocarbon resources with Turkish Cypriots, possibly distributed through a UN-supervised arrangement, as long as both parties remain formally committed to reunification. Turkish Cypriots should commit to share with the Greek Cypriots an inverse proportion of their hydrocarbon revenues from their ongoing onshore drilling activities.

How did they come to this percentage?

So the TCs will therefore give 80% of any their hydrocarbon revenues to the RoC?

•Turkey and Turkish Cypriots should stop using threatening rhetoric and naval manoeuvres inside the island’s EEZ, even if they dispute its limits; and formally commit not to interfere with, or to drill in, offshore hydrocarbon blocks that are in these waters, including the new Aphrodite field and areas west of Cyprus, pending an arrangement.
•If the basic environment for dialogue is established:
•Turkey and the Republic of Cyprus should agree, possibly with third-party mediation, to discuss eastern Mediterranean energy issues, without prejudice to the UN-facilitated talks, or to any official recognition that will follow a settlement. They should study the feasibility of and consider possible cooperation on a gas export pipeline to Turkey, and onwards to Europe, with strong third-party arbitration clauses.
•Turkey, Cyprus and Greece should agree to take their claims for EEZs in the eastern Mediterranean to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) or an arbitral tribunal.

Turkey just needs to sign United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

[Kikapu]

"IPC" ???

You mean the "ICG", don't you, Halil?

Well it doesn't matter really, because they are both corrupt to the core.

No matter how "balanced" the ICG wants to sound in their reporting on Cyprus, it is always favouring Turkey, therefore, the above article is non and void for one simple reason alone, which is this statement in quotes.

as long as both parties remain formally committed to reunification.

Well, Turkey and it's puppet "trnc" are not committed to reunification, therefore, the ICG's article becomes pointless and redundant.

[humanist]

when have the TC demands been fair or acceptable lol. They deserve nothing unti such time that every refugee returns to their home.

[Viewpoint]

when have the TC demands been fair or acceptable lol. They deserve nothing unti such time that every refugee returns to their home.

The only "fair" demands are your own, think about it for few seconds....if the "fair" demands are your own then how do you expect to view ours as fair?

[wyoming cowboy]

when have the TC demands been fair or acceptable lol. They deserve nothing unti such time that every refugee returns to their home.

The only "fair" demands are your own, think about it for few seconds....if the "fair" demands are your own then how do you expect to view ours as fair?

we see how "fair" you have been for the past 38 years to the refugees of cyprus, keeping hostage our lands our history for your legitimacy.

[humanist]

As per usual you make no sense VP in what your saying.

The GC position is equality for everyone .... when you begin to separate then there is division based on figures

[Viewpoint]

As per usual you make no sense VP in what your saying.

The GC position is equality for everyone .... when you begin to separate then there is division based on figures

Equality for everyone as long as the GCs are at the helm.