Akıncı: “Our principle aim is a five partyconference”
9 September, 2016“Territorial adjustments from the Annan Plan are not applicable” notes the Presidential Spokesperson Barış Burcu
19 September, 2016The UN Secretary General’s Special Adviser on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide seemed cautiously optimistic that an agreement could be reached in the first half of 2017, according to the Greek Cypriot newspaper Kathimerini.
The timescale is “ambitious but feasible,” he noted.
In his interview to Kathimerini he said that “Akıncı and Anastasiades have shown that they are eager to solve the Cyprus issue, and so I am supporting them.”
Eide also stressed that while crucial obstacles to reaching an agreement and implementing it still remain, these can be overcome. There is also currently no consensus regarding the rotating presidency and territory, Eide added.