Özgürgün: Greek Cypriot’s Enosis decision designed “to bring darkness and conflict back to the future of Cyprus”
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6 April, 2017
The details of the roadmap for the joint understanding between President Mustafa Akıncı and the UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres, have been set out following their meeting in Brussels earlier this week. It was planned that the Greek Cypriot side’s decision to commemorate the Enosis plebiscite at schools will be revoked on Friday, April 7, and the negotiations will be resumed on Tuesday, April 11.
According to information received by the AA news agency, the previous day’s meeting agenda, which lasted for an hour and a half in Brussels, included plans in case the Greek Cypriot Parliament does not reach a result concerning the elimination of the commemoration of the Enosis Plebiscite at schools on Friday. If this is the case, it was clarified that the planned leaders’ meeting on Tuesday, April 11 will not take place
It was reported that Guterres agreed with Akıncı’s stance and confirmed that it would not be possible to restart the negotiations, which are planned to continue on Tuesday, should the Greek Cypriot Parliament fail to revoke the Enosis decision. He further said that the responsibility would fall on the Greek Cypriot side if this is the case.
The agency reported that that Akıncı and Guterres’s approaches towards the Enosis decision correspond with one another; and it was stressed that “the negotiation ground can only be formed if this decision is revoked”.