The proposals of the Turkish Cypriot leadership for the intensification of cooperation between the two communities, defended in a new public statement, Ersin Tatar negotiator Ergyun Olgun. According to him, the specific proposals are "serious" and "should not be underestimated."
According to the Press and Information Office, the illegal "Bayrak" and the Anatolia Agency write that Mr. Olgun argued that the proposals submitted by Mr. Tatar to the Greek Cypriot side through the UN for cooperation are not proposals to be ignored or proposals made only to be made.
Olgun said, among other things, that "our request from the UN Secretary General was to indicate to the Greek Cypriot side to see from a constructive point of view the proposals we submitted for cooperation and together with these suggestions to forward our proposals."
According to him, "these proposals should not be underestimated, the proposals that were made are not proposals that were made just for the sake of being made, they are serious proposals. These proposals were prepared in a way that serves the common interests of partners across the region and could leave their mark. Our proposals are proposals that could be implemented over time and create great prospects."
Arguing that Mr. Tatar's proposals for cooperation were prepared on the basis of two pillars, Mr. Olgun claimed that "the first axis is about doing what is needed to ensure the achievement of a viable solution to the Cyprus problem, and based on this, the need for the form of the solution to be based on the acquired sovereign rights of the parties and the need not to ignore the root causes of the Cyprus problem."
Claiming that the root cause of the Cyprus problem stems from the fact that the Greek Cypriots consider the entire island as a "Greek island", Mr. Olgun accused the Greek Cypriot side of not taking into account at all the "acquired, and legitimate rights of the Turkish Cypriot side", in his words.
Claiming that since the day Mr. Tatar has been making efforts to establish a joint mechanism and is interested in the daily life of Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots since the day he assumed "presidential duties", despite the fact that no talks are being held, Mr. Olgun also claimed that the 4-point proposals made by the T/C leader are aimed at contributing to the establishment of cooperation mechanisms between the two sides and creating the conditions for achieving peace and establishing trust between them.
It is noted that for his part, according to Vatan, the chairman of the Republican Turkish Party (RTL) Toufan Erhurman, on the same issue, accused Tatar that instead of consulting on the MoUs submitted by the Greek Cypriot side, he submitted proposals knowing that they would not be accepted by the international community.
Source:CNA
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