Without succumbing to any threats or provocations, we will continue our efforts for a solution to the Cyprus problem, proposing what the international law requires, Cyprus Government Spokesman Marios Pelekanos has told CNA, invited to comment on the statements which the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlüt Çavusoglu, and the leader of the Turkish Cypriot community, Ersin Tatar, made on Monday in the Turkish occupied areas of Cyprus.
Pelekanos also said that “we will continue to expose the provocative actions and attitude of the other side but also their unacceptable demands for recognition of equal sovereign rights”.
He noted that “the provocative attitude and behaviour of the other side continue, this time on the occasion of the illegal visit of the Turkish Foreign Minister to our occupied territories.”
“From our side, without succumbing to any threats or challenges, we will continue our effort by proposing what the international law requires. We will continue to expose the provocative actions and attitude of the other side but also their unacceptable demands for recognition of equal sovereign rights”, he pointed out.
He added that “we also see that the majority of our Turkish Cypriot compatriots are also reacting to this obvious attempt by Ankara to bring our occupied territories under its full control”.
“On our part, we will continue the effort until we achieve the removal of the impasse and to bring the Cyprus problem back on the track of a solution, based on what the Security Council resolutions, the high-level agreements, the convergences achieved so far and the European acquis provide”, the Government Spokesman underlined.
A solution, he said, “which will benefit all the citizens of the Republic of Cyprus and will make Cyprus a modern European state, without foreign troops and anachronistic guarantees from third parties.”
Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkey invaded and occupied its northern third. Repeated rounds of UN-led peace talks have so far failed to yield results.
Source: Cyprus News Agency