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Separate meetings with the President of the Republic, Nicos Anastasiades, and the Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, today, Monday, UN Secretary General's Special Representative for Cyprus Colin Stewart will have meetings with the President of the Republic and the Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, ahead of his trip to New York where, at the end of July, the UN Security Council process for the adoption of a resolution to renew the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) will take place.
The Anastasiades-Stuart meeting at the Presidential Palace will take place in the morning, while in the afternoon of the same day Mr. Stewart will meet with Mr. Tatar at his office in the occupied territories, according to the Cypriot News Agency.
The meetings are taking place following the letter of reply, dated June 20, 2022, which Mr. Tatar, sent to President Anastasiades in which he calls for ensuring "sovereign equality" and "equal international status" for Turkish Cypriots in order to "open the door for substantive and formal negotiations aimed at establishing a structured cooperative relationship between two equal states."
Asked to comment on Mr. Tatar's letter, Government Spokesman, Marios Pelecanos, has told CNA that "once again the unacceptable claim of the other side for recognition of equal sovereign rights to the illegal regime is repeated", which serves their goal of leading to a two-state solution "which under no circumstances will we accept.
Pelecanos also said that Nicosia will await the proposals that, as stated in his letter, Mr Tatar intends to submit, making it clear that for there to be a basis for discussing them, they must be in line with what is stipulated in the UN Security Council resolutions on Cyprus, international law and what EU principles and values impose on us.
Source: KYPE
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