{"id":154034,"date":"2026-09-18T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/?p=154034"},"modified":"2026-09-18T13:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:30:18","slug":"president-erhurman-no-agreement-reached-on-confidence-building-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/president-erhurman-no-agreement-reached-on-confidence-building-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"President Erh\u00fcrman: \u201cNo agreement reached on confidence-building measures\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Erh\u00fcrman held a press conference at the Presidency following his meeting with Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Christodoulides ahead of the New York talks, Erh\u00fcrman described the meeting as more productive than the previous one and said that several new ideas had been discussed.<\/p>\n<p>President Erh\u00fcrman said that no agreement had yet been reached on confidence-building measures (CBMs), methodology or substantive issues in the Cyprus negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding a possible 5+1 meeting, Erh\u00fcrman said he supported such a meeting provided that it was results-oriented, stressing that progress should first be achieved at the leaders\u2019 level in Lefko\u015fa. The conditions for convening a 5+1 meeting have not yet been established.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres\u2019 remarks on avoiding the mistakes of the past, Erh\u00fcrman said that a different approach would be needed if previous negotiation processes had failed to produce results.<\/p>\n<p>Erh\u00fcrman said \u201cWe are continuing to make representations to the international community regarding actions that are undermining trust\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding substantive issues, Erh\u00fcrman said that the sides were currently at the stage of listening to the ideas and views of each side, adding that this was the current state of affairs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Erh\u00fcrman held a press conference at the Presidency following his meeting with Greek Cypriot leader<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":154035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154034","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154037,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154034\/revisions\/154037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}