He supports the position for a "solution on the basis of two states", CL President Kudret Ozersai said, speaking on a KIBRIS TV programme.
According to the CJI, the eponymous newspaper reported that Mr. Ojersai said that the conditions for reaching a solution on the basis of the federal model in Cyprus have long since collapsed and that "as the People's Party we are the first to say that we support the two-state solution position".
It is possible, he argued, to come up with a two-state model of cooperation in Cyprus and this could be achieved through negotiation.
On UN resolutions, he said that the UNSC for years made reference to federation, but federation is not the only way to reach a solution. "In Cyprus, the two leaders, the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot leaders, addressed the UN saying 'we will hold talks for a solution centred on federation'. If the two leaders meet today and say they have no common basis for talks, it means there is no common basis," he said. "And since there is no common ground, the UN then cannot impose the position 'that the only way to achieve a solution is a federation'. This thing cannot be accepted in international law, because from the point of view of the Turkish Cypriots and the rest of the world, the right of 'self-determination' is destroyed."
Expressing the view that "the fate of the Turks of Cyprus is shared with the fate of Turkey," Ojersai added that the most appropriate thing to do is to formulate their foreign policy together with Turkey. "Sticking to a formula that is not going to produce a result and saying 'force a federation' is not a correct approach. A very different solution should be negotiated."
On their relations with Turkey, he stressed the need to create an image that Turkey and the pseudo-state are "two allied states."
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