Çavuşoğlu: “No progress has been made due to all sides waiting for each other’s positions”

Stating that there has not been “much” progress so far in the ongoing Conference on Cyprus in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said that no progress has been made due to all sides waiting for each other’s position.

Çavuşoğlu made a statement to Turkish and Greek Cypriot journalists following the conference which was held at the Le Regent Congress Centre.

Although many meetings were held on the 8th day of the conference, Çavuşoğlu said that while the UN Secretary General is due to return to Switzerland today again [Thursday], unfortunately there has not been “much” progress.

Çavuşoğlu added: “The overall “picture” of the conference will become clearer with the participation of United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres in the conference today. There is no need to waste time”.

“We haven’t seen the proposals from the other side yet. Regrettably, the press saw them before us. It is not a fair stance, or conducive to the negotiations, to share proposals with the press before sharing them with us. We see that the Greek Cypriot side is playing to the crowd. If they were real and serious proposals then first they would have been shared with the participants at the table. Sharing the proposals with the press and then saying we brought forward proposals means playing to the crowd” Çavuşoğlu said.