“Within the new procedures designed to resolve each the Aegean and the Cyprus problem, this time the International Ministers of Turkey and Greece will sit within the captain's chair.”
Vital for the Cyprus problem is the go to of the Turkish International Minister Hakan Fidan to Athens on November 8, in response to the Turkish opposition web site T24, which claims that there’s a tacit understanding between the International Ministers of Greece and Turkey {that a} everlasting resolution to the Cyprus problem could have constructive results. results and on the constructive agenda between the 2 international locations.
In an opinion article on the T24 web site entitled “Are there untimely delivery pains in Cyprus?”, it’s acknowledged that “the telephone name made by Minister Fidan to UN Secretary-Common Guterres instantly after the casual dinner of the UN Secretary-Common with the 2 leaders to debate the Cyprus problem. Most likely, there ought to have been a necessity to control the method that had been created.”
Earlier than the New Yr holidays, the casual assembly
It added that “it has not but been clarified whether or not the casual assembly, which is predicted to happen earlier than the New Yr holidays, can be held in a 5-party format, together with the UK, or in a 4-party format with the participation of solely the mom international locations. The Turkish facet prefers the quadripartite format on the grounds that there is no such thing as a want for the UK to take part, on condition that safety ensures and territorial points won’t be mentioned within the first part.”
In keeping with the Turkish web site “within the new processes designed to resolve each the Aegean and the Cyprus problem, this time the Ministers of International Affairs of Turkey and Greece, Hakan Fidan and Giorgos Gerapetritis, will sit within the captain's chair.”
“As may be seen, within the context of the dialogue with a constructive agenda that they’ve been conducting for the final 12 months, the 2 Ministers additionally mentioned the Cyprus problem. From this standpoint, Fidan's go to to Athens on November 8 is of nice significance. There may be an implicit understanding between the 2 Ministers {that a} everlasting resolution to the Cyprus problem could have constructive results on the constructive agenda between the 2 international locations, but additionally that the Cyprus problem won’t be an impediment to the event of Greek-Turkish relations.”
The place is the US on this course of?
In keeping with the web site, though it isn’t so seen, the US is following the method carefully. The truth is, they direct her.
“The truth is, the primary stage of the brand new course of was put into place in Washington in the course of the NATO Summit in early July. The UN Secretary-Common's private envoy for Cyprus, Holgin, though she had no enterprise on the NATO Summit, was summoned to Washington and, on the suggestion of US Secretary of State Blinken, the Fidan-Gerapetritis assembly was secured,” he writes.
“One other alternative for the Greek Cypriot facet is the presidential elections within the USA which can be held on November 5. The Biden administration is taking fixed steps to look good to the Greek Cypriot administration, calculating 'can I get the Greek Cypriot foyer on my facet?' towards the Jewish foyer that helps Trump. Initially, the arms embargo imposed on the Greek Cypriot administration of southern Cyprus was lifted. Protection cooperation and strategic dialogue agreements had been signed between the US and Cyprus a short while in the past. The final visitor that Biden hosted within the White Home, who within the first days of his time period stated “My title is Bidenopoulos”, was the president of EDNK Christodoulidis”, he claims.
How far will Ankara go?
The Turkish web site claims that “in right now's Turkey, all the things is feasible. We’d be stunned if somebody awakened one morning and stated: 'Christodoulidis should come and inform the Grand Turkish Nationwide Meeting that he accepts the sovereign equality of the Turkish Cypriots, and we should acknowledge the EDNK (Greek Cypriot Republic of Southern Cyprus) and clear up the Cypriot”.
