Regarding the letter of the President of the Republic, Nicos Anastasiades, to the occupation leader Ersin Tatar, dated 23 May 2022, the Democratic Party expresses serious reservations and requests that the President immediately convene a National Council.
In a statement, the Democratic Party said that "to date, the President has not told us what 'decentralized federation' means and we expect him to inform the National Council what this idea entails."
"The Democratic Party, at the same time, expresses its concern about the Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) also reiterated by the President. DIKO's concern is that the MOUs not only fail to curb Turkish intransigence but instead send a completely wrong message to Turkey as well as to the EU and the international community. The policy of promoting MEAs at a time when Turkish settlement in occupied Famagusta is defiantly expanding, unfortunately encourages rather than prevents Turkish methods", DIKO explains.
"The Democratic Party believes that the right strategy to counter Turkish aggression and provocativeness is based on the policy of inflicting costs on the pseudo-state and Turkey and on the defence of the Republic of Cyprus", it concludes.
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