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Substantial use of the European factor in efforts to rescue the Varosha and resume talks, will be sought by President Anastasiades in his meetings tomorrow and the day after tomorrow on the sidelines of the Euro-African Summit in Brussels.
Without disregarding the work going on at the level of the technical committees on sanctions, Nicos Anastasiades will focus on the proposal for substantive Confidence Building Measures. A proposal based on international law, Security Council resolutions and the needs of both sides.
On the third aspect he will focus and explain how this is a mutually beneficial treaty that can theoretically reverse the bad climate. On the one hand, Varosha is returned to its rightful inhabitants and owners and on the other hand, the isolation of Turkish Cypriots is lifted with the operation of the Famagusta port and the Tymbou airport under UN administration.
This should be the goal, Nicos Anastasiades will tell European Union officials and leaders. The challenge for the Greek Cypriot side is to convince the European Union that things are very serious and to mobilise immediately to end the extreme provocations on the ground and break the deadlock in the talks.
They are burning bridges
The scope for optimism is very limited as the pseudo-Tatar government continues to reject the proposal for the substantive MoU. In order not to accept it, it provocatively says that it is a proposal that has many pitfalls for Turkish Cypriots and that they will not "cede the power of airport and port control to third parties". Despite the many voices in the occupied territories who understand that this is a proposal for the benefit of Turkish Cypriots as well.
The pseudo-state is spreading that it is another ploy by the Greek Cypriot side "to maintain the status quo on the island". And this is said by those who want and try to consolidate, consolidate and formalize the present status quo. Those who promote as the only viable and realistic solution the solution of two cooperating states,
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