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29 September, 2017Deputy Prime Minister Akdağ in TRNC
29 September, 2017Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu returned to the TRNC yesterday after completing his meetings in the United States of America.
Ertuğruloğlu, who has undertaken an intense contact programme in New York and Washington over recent weeks, attended meetings of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Organization of Economic Cooperation (ECO), and the US Congress.
Ertuğruloğlu also gave an interview to the television channel, PBS, as well as Slate Magazine. His PBS interview was broadcast during his time in the US.
Foreign Minister Ertuğruloğlu, who attended a lunch at the US Capitol in his honour by John Tanner, former member of the US House of Representatives, also met a number of Members of Congress. In his speech, Ertuğruloğlu gave detailed information about the latest developments in Cyprus, the collapsed negotiations in Crans Montana and the new process. He expressed that it is not possible to revive the failed process.
Stating that new processes should be discussed in Cyprus, Ertuğruloğlu noted that the UN should open a new page for state to state relations on the basis of equality in Cyprus.
Ertuğruloğlu said that the TRNC will undertake closer relationships with the international community during the new process, and asked for support for lifting the unjustified embargoes against the Turkish Cypriot people.
The Minister stressed that the UN should review its policies in Cyprus for the new process. He said, “Every formula has been tried in the Cyprus negotiations over the last 50 years, yet no success has been achieved, because the Greek Cypriot side does not need to solve it in the current process.
Ertuğruloğlu continued:
“The process in Crans Montana came to an end because of the stance of the Greek Cypriot side. Their aim is not finding a solution, but to keep us living under embargoes during an open-ended process. But now the old process is over. Only a solution with two separate states can continue in Cyprus from now on, as it is now. Federation talks are over. “