TRNC represented in Kyrgyzstan
24 April, 2019Özersay met with Chairman of Central Bank
25 April, 2019President Mustafa Akıncı evaluated the UN Secretary General’s recent UN report submitted to the UN Security Council yesterday (23rd April) on the Cyprus issue.
In his written statement evaluating the report of the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres covering the period of 6th October 2018 to 10th April 2019, Akinci pointed out that the EU harmonization studies of the Turkish Cypriot institutions ceased with the blocking by the Greek side after the Crans-Montana talks and stated that these issues were also ignored in the report. Akıncı also stated that there was a serious deficiency in the report, not to mention the negativity of the Greek side. He also stressed that it is regrettable that the positive attitude of the Turkish Cypriot side was ignored.
Stating that UNSG has always tried to take a balanced position among the parties as expected, Akıncı said, “Since the work of Jane Holl Lute, who makes contacts representing the Secretary General, has not ended yet, the reason for this attitude is understandable; the result is an injustice made to the Turkish Cypriot side.”
Akıncı said that the report referred to past memorandums, 11 February 2014 document and 30 June 2017 Guterres framework, but the position of the parties against the aforementioned agreements and documents was not mentioned.
President Mustafa Akıncı pointed out that the injustice of the unnecessary embargoes applied for many years to the Turkish Cypriot people should be understood now and he said: “This attitude is a great injustice to our people who have done so much for the solution and are still doing it.”