{"id":141163,"date":"2018-02-15T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/united-nations-reiterates-position-that-natural-resources-found-around-cyprus-should-benefit-both-communities\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T09:00:30","slug":"united-nations-reiterates-position-that-natural-resources-found-around-cyprus-should-benefit-both-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/united-nations-reiterates-position-that-natural-resources-found-around-cyprus-should-benefit-both-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations reiterates position that natural resources found around Cyprus should benefit both communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations has expressed \u201cregret\u201d over increasing tensions in Cyprus, caused by unilateral Greek Cypriot hydrocarbon-related activities in the Eastern Mediterranean. The international organization reiterated the call that both communities on the island could benefit from any natural resources found around Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question from Anadolu Agency, UN Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq said, &#8220;the Secretary-General regrets that tensions over hydrocarbons exploration have escalated once again, and emphasizes that all concerned parties should do their utmost to defuse tensions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Haq further stated that the UN Secretariat will not \u201ctake a position on the rights of member states under the treaties to which they are party, or under general international law&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretary-General Antonio Guterres stresses that a solution to the Cyprus problem constitutes the best chance of resolving this issue once and for all, and for unlocking collaborative and mutually beneficial solutions&#8221;, said Haq.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing to a report on the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, Haq highlighted that &#8220;any natural resources found around Cyprus could benefit both communities&#8221;, and that Secretary-General Guterres &#8220;recalls that the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot leaders in negotiations had previously agreed that natural resources in a unified Cyprus would lie within the competence of the future federal government&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations has expressed \u201cregret\u201d over increasing tensions in Cyprus, caused by unilateral Greek Cypriot<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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141163","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=141163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}