The contestation of agreed basic convergences by Anastasiades - Christodoulides and the guilty silence of Averoff led us to the current tragic situation as depicted in the Report of the Secretary-General, AKEL said in a statement.
"Most of the UN Secretary General's Good Offices Report concerns technical committees and PMOs. While it is admitted that these are important but only in conjunction with an authentic process leading to the resumption of meaningful direct negotiations, hardly anything is said about the substance", AKEL stresses in a statement.
The statement itself:
Most of the UN Secretary General's Good Offices Report concerns technical committees and MEAs. While it is admitted that these are important but only in conjunction with a genuine process leading to the resumption of meaningful direct negotiations, almost nothing is said about the substance.
Absent is any mention of the agreed framework for a bizonal bicommunal federation with political equality, the Guterres Framework and a continuation of the talks from where they left off. Elements that were dominant in previous reports. There is only a lukewarm mention that the UN Secretary General is guided by the Security Council resolutions that set the parameters of the solution.
Avoided condemnation of Turkish actions in Varosha and Turkey's Tatar position on sovereign equality and equal international status, i.e. recognition of the pseudo-state as a precondition for the resumption of talks. Furthermore, whereas in previous Reports the Secretary-General insisted on the exploitation of natural resources as an incentive for a solution to the Cyprus problem, he now decouples them from the solution and calls for their exploitation only in order to resolve the disputes over hydrocarbons.
Today we are paying the heavy price of the wreck of Crans Montana and the reluctance of President Anastasiades to use the relevant recommendations of the Secretary General in order to restart the negotiation process from where it was left in 2017. The contestation of agreed key convergences by Anastasiades - Christodoulides and the guilty silence of Averoff led us to the current tragic situation as depicted in the Secretary General's Report. It is obvious that Anastasiades, Averoff and Christodoulides are neither willing nor able to radically change course in order to test Turkey so that it either accepts the agreed framework and the continuation of the talks from where we left off or be solely responsible for the stalemate that has been going on for five years. The initiatives that need to be taken have long been indicated by AKEL by submitting specific proposals that unfortunately have not been accepted by those in power.
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