Özersay: “Sides should reach an agreement on which issues will be negotiated”

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kudret Özersay said that the sides should reach an agreement on which issues will be negotiated to be able to conduct a result oriented negotiation process.

Özersay evaluated the meeting with the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative and Head of Mission in Cyprus Elizabeth Spehar held at the Head  Office of the People’s Party (HP).

Özersay said that in order to convert the dialogue conducted by UN Secretary General’s temporary envoy on Cyprus Jane Holl Lute to a negotiation process, firstly the sides should reach an agreement on which issues will be negotiated. Özersay stressed that he expressed this issue to the UN in a detailed way.

Özersay added “In the following process, no one should consider this process or similar processes independently from the developments in the world and in the region. Therefore, the developments on the Cyprus problem, which is an international problem, should not be considered independently from the Brexit process, for example from the European Parliament elections and from the local elections in Turkey to be held in 2019. These developments will determine what will be in the following process. By taking into consideration these issues, we have found an opportunity to share with the UN our views regarding the following process within the framework of the conditions especially both international and regional and for Cyprus. We hope this dialogue will continue by being institutionalised.