TRNC Presidency: “Anastasiades’ statements are against diplomatic ethics”

The TRNC Presidency announced that the statements made by the Leader of the Greek Cypriot Administration Nikos Anastasiades after the launch of the Action Plan which was prepared to make recommendations to ensure the effective participation of women in a possible reconciliation process, were contrary to diplomatic ethical values.

In the written statement made by the TRNC Presidency on April 15, it was noted that President Ersin Tatar, together with the Greek Cypriot leader Anastasiades, participated in the launch of the Action Plan on 13 April 2022, which was prepared to make recommendations to ensure the effective participation of women in a possible reconciliation process. After the presentations at the event hosted by the Head of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, Colin Stewart, the two leaders congratulated the members of the Bilateral Technical Committee.

It was stressed that the fact that the topics that came to the agenda during the conversation were distorted by the Greek Cypriot leader Anastasides as soon as he left the event, and it also violates diplomatic ethical values.

In response to the views of Anastasiades regarding the transition to the official process, President Tatar expressed that the Turkish Cypriot side’s position is clear for the start of a new and official negotiation process, the Turkish Cypriot side will not waste their time with exhausted models, including the 2004 referendum, adding that this serves no other purpose than to maintain the status quo, and that the biggest reason for the failure of all these years of processes is the lack of equality between the parties.

In the light of all these facts, Tatar stated that a new and official process can begin after the acceptance of sovereign equality and equal international status, which are the vested rights of the Turkish Cypriot side, and that the most realistic formula of a just, realistic and sustainable reconciliation in Cyprus is the two states on the basis of sovereign equality and equal international status.

President Tatar also underlined that the Turkish Cypriot people will not relinquish their vested rights under any circumstances and that the Turkish Cypriot side is ready to conclude the Cyprus problem with a reconciliation as soon as possible, on the basis of sovereign equality and equal international status, constructively and in good faith.