House President, Annita Demetriou, briefed the Margareta Cederfelt, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) on the latest Turkish provocations in Varosha, during a meeting on the occasion of the International Conference of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE in Nicosia. Demetriou also met with Hanne Juncher, Execituve Director of GRECO, and Roby Senderowitsch, World Bank Manager of Leadership, Learning & Innovation
Demetriou welcomed the President of the PA of OSCE in Cyprus and expressed her satisfaction for the smooth collaboration with the House of Representatives, as a result of which was the organisation of the International Conference in Nicosia, following the initiative of Irene Charalambides, a parliamentary press release says.
Demetriou briefed Cederfelt on the latest Turkish provocations in Varosha, the fenced off section of the Turkish occupied town of Famagusta. UN Security Council resolution 550 (1984) considers any attempts to settle any part of Varosha by people other than its inhabitants as inadmissible and calls for the transfer of this area to the administration of the UN. Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, announced in July 2021 a partial lifting of the military status in Varosha and the latest actions in that direction occurred a few days ago.
The House President said during her meeting with Cederfelt, that these actions undermine the efforts to restart the talks towards a resolution of the Cyprus Problem, in order to reunite the island in peace and security, after its violent division due to the Turkish invasion in 1974. Cederfelt praised the Cypriot delegation in the PA OSCE and expressed her wish for the restoration of peace and security in Cyprus, as soon as possible.
During her meeting with Hanne Juncher, Demetriou spoke of the latest reforms and legislations in Cyprus, that aim to combat corruption. Juncher congratulated Cyprus for making progress in the right direction.
The press release concludes that, during her conversation with Roby Senderowitsch, Demetriou expressed the wish of the House of Representatives to extent its collaboration with the World Bank and Senderowitsch stressed out the importance of national parliaments in the fight against corruption, during the oversight and approval of budgets.
Source: Cyprus News Agency