According to the GMP, in a written statement issued yesterday, Mr. Ojersai said that both gas and electricity cooperation in the energy sector between Turkey, Israel, "southern Cyprus" and "northern Cyprus" could take place, in his words, with pipelines to be built in the near future and interconnection between them, which is a historic opportunity.
The statements made by Nuland during her visits to the region, he added, show that this cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean could take place without expecting a solution to the Cyprus problem.
According to Mr. Ojersai, both the "foreign ministry" and the T/C leader should develop views and recommendations on this issue and become more visible internationally by taking diplomatic initiatives together with Turkey.
Noting that recently American officials have clearly indicated both in Greece and in "southern Cyprus", in his words, that they are not warm to the East Med pipeline, which will take time to complete and will cost a lot and have started to focus on various projects which will reduce Turkey's and Europe's energy dependence on Russia, Qudret Ozersai said that the US seems determined on the issue of reducing dependence on Russia and that the conclusion we draw from the US stance on East Med and the Nuland mission to the region is that the sides that reject cooperation will be left out.
In this regard, he continued, the Greek Cypriot side has to make a difficult decision and President Anastasiades must manage to "unite" the rhetoric on the MoU and energy cooperation with the demand of the US and the West and stop making preconditions.
"It is not realistic to expect Turkey to recognize the Greek Cypriot administration and the Greek Cypriot administration to recognize the tdvk. Therefore, in these circumstances, we should focus on the implementation of cooperation by finding intermediate formulas."
Mr. Ozersay also expressed the view that such regional cooperation would create mutual dependence between the sides and this would serve peace and stability in the Eastern Mediterranean region, something he has been talking about for years and would allow the TCs to breathe easy.
An initiative for this should be taken by Ersin Tatar and the "suplex", he added. "Turkey has a position that is more accepted in the world than in the past. There is a Turkey that has increased in importance and weight as a result of the crisis between Russia and Ukraine."[/P HE CONCLUDED BY POINTING TO THE TC LEADER AND THE "SUPLEX" FOR THIS.
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