{"id":139430,"date":"2016-01-14T10:45:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T08:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/anastasiades-is-under-the-pressure-of-the-greek-cypriot-opposition\/"},"modified":"2016-01-14T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T08:45:14","slug":"anastasiades-is-under-the-pressure-of-the-greek-cypriot-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/anastasiades-is-under-the-pressure-of-the-greek-cypriot-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Anastasiades is under the pressure of the Greek Cypriot opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Anastasiades on Wednesday reiterated his readiness to attend a joint meeting, if invited, with the UN Secretary-General and President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 in Switzerland later this month. Anastasiades said: \u201cIf invited I will certainly take part because the UNSG should be informed about the actual status of the talks; the progress achieved and the problems we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> If it takes place, the meeting will be held on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos between January 20 and 23.<\/p>\n<p> On the other hand, Greek Cypriot opposition politicians are anxious about this meeting. EDEK expressed concern over the move, saying the party was convinced that an attempt was underway to systematically upgrade the Turkish Cypriot state in the North.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThis meeting cannot be justified from the moment Anastasiades is invited in his capacity as the \u2018President\u2019 and Mr. Akinci is invited under a completely different capacity,\u201d EDEK chairman Marinos Sizopoulos said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> Such a meeting will not be downgrading the President as a leader of a community but it will be upgrading Ak\u0131nc\u0131 to President or representative of a so-called state entity, he said.<\/p>\n<p> DIKO suggested Ak\u0131nc\u0131 being upgraded to \u201cco-president\u201d with acceptance by Anastasiades in advance to meet Ak\u0131nc\u0131 alone, or in the presence of the UNSG in Davos, \u201cwhere only heads of state participate.\u201d  and all this, according to the party, amid a blackout that aimed in taking people by surprise and subsequently blackmailing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Anastasiades on Wednesday reiterated his readiness to attend a joint meeting, if<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\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-139430","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\/139430","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=139430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}