The (non-)talks on the Cyprus problem are still going on, even after the submission of Ersin Tatar's alleged new proposal on energy. In essence, the Turkish Cypriot leader reiterated the 2011 proposal for a joint co-management committee. He added two or three new provisions and submitted the proposal in writing to the UN, wanting to show that he is interested in resolving the disputes. Of course, knowing full well that the Greek Cypriot side would reject it.
Yet, this "fraud" is not the aspect we should focus on. The focus of the discussion should be on the fact that the Turkish Cypriot leader is also openly using the energy field as a vehicle for the two states.
Tatar's proposal is clearly about cooperation between two neighbouring states and not two constituent states of a federation. Transnational... cooperation in the fields of gas, electricity, renewable energy and water resources. And as he said, there are at least two more sectors in which he will propose cooperation on the basis of sovereign equality and equal international status.
This stance is but another proof of the insistence of the Turkish government and its enabler in the occupied territories to maintain the present state of affairs. There is no other explanation for their insistence on proposals that turn the situation upside down. Proposals that neither the Greek Cypriot side nor the UN can accept.
In any case, the Greek Cypriot side will take a position after thoroughly studying the content of Ersin Tatar's proposal. But if what has been published in the occupied territories is indeed true, then there will be a rejection from the outset. Just as all suggestions and proposals that are directly or indirectly linked to the Turkish claim to change the form of the solution will be rejected.
Along with creating impressions at the political level, the occupied territories have again begun to exploit other areas in order to promote their two-state position. Areas such as sport, with Ersin Tatar stating yesterday that Turkish Cypriot athletes should... "finally" compete abroad under the flag of the pseudo-state.
The example of sports was also brought up by the so-called "Foreign Minister" in an interview with TRT World. It was a 50-minute rant, in which
Tahsin Ertugruloglu told us that everyone is to blame for the non-solution of the Cyprus problem, except Turkey and the pseudo-state. It is the fault of the "nonsense" and "propaganda" of the Greek Cypriots and Greece, it is the fault of the international community for listening to them, it is the fault of the UN for not accepting the change in the form of the solution, it is the fault of the European Union, France, the UK "is not objective since it is imprisoned by the fact that it maintains two bases in free Cyprus". Everyone, except themselves...
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