TRNC Presidential Assertion
We now have been knowledgeable that the Prime Minister of the UK, Sir Keir Starmer, can pay an official go to to the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus on 9 December 2024.
Sir Starmer may also meet Greek Cypriot chief Nikos Christodoulidis for the second time in 5 months as Prime Minister after taking workplace in July, the primary in London in October.
President Ersin Tatar contacted the British authorities via his Particular Consultant Güneş Onar and requested a gathering with the Prime Minister, who is thought for his logical and pragmatic pondering, within the hope that he would have the chance to study first-hand the angle of the Turkish Cypriot facet.
Though the go to is going down at a time when the UN Secretary-Normal will host a bigger casual assembly on the Cyprus situation wherein the UK can be represented, the UK, as one of many guarantor powers, has an obligation to deal with the 2 events equally.
There are two sides in Cyprus and any answer requires dialogue, cooperation and understanding between the events. Ignoring the existence of the Turkish Cypriot individuals and assembly with solely one of many events will undermine efforts to construct belief between the events and pave the way in which for significant cooperation in numerous areas.
It will likely be much more tough for the Greek Cypriot facet, which has refused to share energy and prosperity on the idea of equality with the Turkish Cypriot individuals for greater than half a century, to get out of its consolation zone with such “particular therapy” given by England.
We count on the UK, which is the guarantor energy, has a say within the UN Safety Council and is nicely conscious of the historic developments in Cyprus and the details on the bottom, to take an egalitarian strategy between the 2 sides, respecting the existence of the Turkish Cypriot individuals and their elected leaders. The Greek Cypriot chief doesn’t have the authority to symbolize the SBAs (Sovereign Higher Areas), nor does he have the authority to symbolize the Turkish Cypriots.
Furthermore, after the Greek Cypriot facet rejected the UN Complete Settlement Plan in separate simultaneous referendums in April 2004, the then UN Secretary-Normal Kofi Annan mentioned that the “logic” of holding the Turkish Cypriots in isolation now not existed following the referendum outcomes, and instructed the worldwide group that Cyprus He known as for an finish to the unfair isolation and restrictions on the Turkish facet.
With this understanding, frequent sense prevailed and the Prime Minister of the UK, Sir Keir Starmer, agreed to satisfy with President Ersin Tatar throughout his go to to the Island, stating that the UK accepts the 2 sides as inherently equal and desires to encourage either side for a sustainable future. We count on him to point out it not solely with phrases but additionally with motion.
