Siber: If negotiations fail, lifting isolation and embargoes “should be the primary goal”

Speaker of the Assembly Sibel Siber has stated that in the event of failure in the negotiations, the primary goal should be lifting the isolations and embargoes imposed on the Turkish Cypriots.

Siber received the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Tuğrul Türkeş and his accompanying delegation yesterday. During the meeting, Siber stressed that the Cyprus negotiations have entered a new dimension, and that this process is considered as the final phase, and expressed her hope that a solution can be reached in Cyprus. Siber added that in the event the negotiations fail, the result should be evaluated in an objective manner, and that Turkish Cypriots should not be punished by the global public opinion and the United Nations.

Siber underlined that Turkish Cypriots desire a solution based on bi-communality, bi-zonality, and political equality. The Speaker stressed that this model for a solution has been subject to 50 years of negotiation, and that a new model should be found should the negotiations collapse.

In his speech, Türkeş said that Turkey desires the unjust isolations imposed on the Turkish Cypriots to be lifted as soon as possible. He pointed out that the whole world should be able to see which side does not want a solution to be found in Cyprus.