President Tatar to meet with Cuellar on 30 January

President Ersin Tatar announced that he will meet with the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy, Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar, on 30 January at 11.30am.

In a statement to the Turkish News Agency Cyprus (TAK) correspondent on the reports submitted by the UN Secretary-General to the UN Security Council and the latest developments, Tatar said, “The Greek Cypriot side has increased its aggression in recent days by making our people uneasy and reintroducing the methods they have tried in the past and reached nowhere.”

Noting that the message given by the Greek Cypriot leadership to the world these days contains hostility, perhaps in a way that it has never been, by launching an attack against the Turkish Cypriot people, the President called on the Greek Cypriot side to give up its hostile attitude.

Tatar said, “The two reports submitted by the UN Secretary-General to the UN Security Council are being partial, especially regarding the violations in the buffer zone,” adding that Colin Stewart, the Special Representative of the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General in Cyprus and Head of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) gave a briefing on these reports to the representatives of 15 countries, 5 permanent members and 10 temporary members of the UN Security Council, in New York the previous day.

Tatar also mentioned that Stewart’s emphasis in his statement to the press on a compromise model acceptable to both sides was important.

At the end of his speech, President Ersin Tatar reiterated his call for the Greek Cypriot side to give up its hostile attitude and said, “Let’s turn Cyprus, where we share the same geography, into an island of cooperation. Let both peoples win and contribute to the stability of our region.”