By Dr. Christian Heinz<\/p>\n
Dr Christian Heinze was the Assistant to the late President of the Constitutional Court of the \u201cRepublic of Cyprus\u201d in Nicosia in 1962\/63.<\/p>\n
According to the Turkish Cypriot Public Information Internet Espen Barth Eide Publication of 8th April, 2015, \u201cEide: \u201cIt is a question of how much a violation has actually happened in Cyprus\u2019 EEZ\u201d Espen Barth Eide, special representative of the United Nations Secretary General, made statements that explain, in the view of the author of this essay, why no progress is made towards ending the Cyprus conflict. Below, the utterings of Mr. Eide are reproduced in the left and their evaluation is contained in the right column of the table.<\/p>\n
| Statement<\/td>\n | Evaluation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| The \u201cimpatience of the international community \u2026 is becoming more and more evident\u2026 there is a feeling that this really cannot be allowed to go on any longer\u2026.<\/td>\n | The position adopted by the UN representing the \u201cinternational community\u201d is not a consequence but the true cause for the continuation of the problem. Therefore, this community should be impatient with itself.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| \u201cIt`s not like neutral\u2026 there is \u2026 only two ways to land which is reunification or separation\u201d.<\/td>\n | The position of the UN is indeed not neutral, it rather provides the basis for Greek intransigence by delcaring TRNC illegal and allowing the embargo inflicted on TRNC not only by their Greek countrymen but by the caring family of nations.Proposing \u201creunification\u201d as an alternative ignores the fact that no unity existed (that could be restored) after the lapse of British government in Cyprus in 1960. And some sort of unification is not an alternative but a Gordian Knot of conditions, the most important of which are \u2013 some with, some without the applause of the community of nations \u2013 unacceptable to one or the other side.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| <\/p>\n \u201cPeople should go for it and try to solve it.\u201d<\/td>\n | The dream that people are able to solve things sometimes disregards political factors (like the one mentioned above).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| \u201cThere is the legal argument that is very strong on the \u2026 Greek Cypriot side, \u2026 that the Republic of Cyprus \u2026 is a country like every country and it can declare its economic zone.\u201d<\/td>\n | As a statement of fact this ignores the reality in and around Cyprus, and as a legal statement it refers to a principle established by lawyers without sufficient grounds or even explanations, and, most importantly, without sufficient respect for political reality and requirements for validity of legal norms \u2013 and for lasting peace.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| The UN understand very well that \u201cif you are a Turkish Cypriot \u2026 back in the 60s a state that was supposed to be a state for Greeks and Turks was hijacked by one side and turned into more of a Hellenic state\u201d. But Mr. Eide noted immediately following this insight that \u201che did not want to go into that issue\u2026\u201d<\/td>\n | Right here lies one of the causes for continued conflict: The position of the UN disagrees with the \u201cTurkish\u201d view (without establishing why it is incorrect) and insists on an intended Republic of Cyprus of 1960 legally owning the whole island and being illegally disturbed in the exercise of this ownership by Turkey and the TRNC. This position makes \u201cunification\u201d impossible by putting the Greek conflicting party into a position from where it can jeopardize any attempt at a viable solution, and the Turkish conflicting party (in the words of Mr. Eide) \u201cin a strange situation\u201d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| The \u201cleaders \u2026 are aiming at \u2013 a bizonal, bicommunal federation, one single sovereignty to the outside world, two constituent states. This is what they agreed. What we have to do is to fill in the different components\u2026\u201d<\/td>\n | What Mr. Eide refers to here is not really an \u201cagreement\u201d because both sides connect different meanings with the notions of \u201cfederation\u201d and \u201cone single sovereignty\u201d, rendering them contradictions in themselves.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mr. Eide\u2019s focus is on solving \u201call the core issues, then everything else will follow\u201d. Issues like that of hydrocarbons will then constitute no longer \u201ca conflict issue but a cooperation issue\u201d, subject to a \u201cfederal capacity in a new state. So, a lot of these issues are issues because of the division and will actually evaporate once a solution is found. Because they are expressions of the division.\u201d<\/td>\n | <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This reveals a fundamental error: The \u201cissues\u201d are not expressions of a division evaporating in federation but causes and reasons for the division preventing federation. Without substantial agreement \u201cfederation\u201d would amount to another edition of the fraudulent attempt at establishing a state committed in 1960<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| <\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Resumption of negotiations will mean that \u201cwe are taking difficult issue by difficult issue and seeing how we move forward\u201d.<\/td>\n | The result cannot be anything else than a new edition of the Annan plan and it will evaporate when it comes to agreeing on sovereignty (in fact or in law). Or if such agreement is dissimulated, the conflict will linger on \u2013 covered up for some time with paper.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Mr. Eide says that Cyprus \u201ccould be a stable, wealthy, interesting, positive place, an example for the world of overcoming past difficulties through peaceful negotiations. It will attract a lot of investments because [of] a solution to Cyprus, it has an ideal location for people who want to be engaged in the Middle East but do not want to actually be based in the Middle East\u201d. Cyprus would \u201cbe able to capitalize on its natural resources and so on, and have an economy that is not driven by political decisions but by rational economic choice, and I think that`s a great future but you can only find it by working with other Cypriots. You cannot find it against the other Cypriots because that would only lead to either a continued non-solution or a final partition.\u201d<\/td>\n | This is a very promising description of what would happen around Cyprus if TRNC was recognized as a State. Gradual formation of a Cypriot federation would be a consequence.There is only a \u201csmall\u201d misunderstanding contained in the last sentence of the quotation: Basic separation in the meaning of double self-determination of two \u201cpolitically equal\u201d entities is the only way to federation (not to speak of unification).(It points in the right direction when Mr. Eide speaks of the Presidents of GRSC and TRNC as leaders of their communities.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| When \u201cwe meet again,\u201d Mr. Eide says, \u201cwe will pick up from where we left \u2026 looking into our reading of where the two sides stand, and where possible bridges can be made between the starting positions of both sides.\u201d \u201cEvery single issue,\u201d Mr. Eide told the Press, \u201ccan be solved if there is will, if there is dedication, and if that will is sustained as we go through all the chapters and eventually bring in the international community in some kind of [inaudible] final stage.\u201d<\/td>\n | This procedure would postpone basic questions like: would the Greek side agree with a federal condition that Turkish police and judiciary in TRNC will not be subject to any Greek interference ? or that military equilibrium in the island continues ? If so, in agreeing, the term \u201csovereignty\u201d would be dispensable. Many parts of the Annan plan could be left to future federal decision,As a result of the non-solution in details of 1960, however, substantial agreement is required on the heritage of 1960: that Cyprus as a whole belongs to Greek and Turkish Cypriots. The importance of this heritage becomes apparent in the hydrocarbons question<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n (Cyprusscene.com)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Dr. Christian Heinz Dr Christian Heinze was the Assistant to the late President of the [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |