President Anastasiades' proposal for Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) benefits both communities equally, aiming to create a positive climate for the resumption of dialogue on the Cyprus problem, Government Spokesman Marios Pelekanos told the Cyprus News Agency, regretting the rejection of the proposals by the T/C side.
Asked to comment on the content of a statement issued on Tuesday by the office of the T/C leader, Pelecanos said that "it is with regret that we have been informed about the content of the statement of the Turkish Cypriot leadership in which it rejects the President's proposal for essential confidence-building measures."
A proposal, it continues, "that benefits both communities equally and was aimed at creating a positive climate that would lead to the resumption of a creative dialogue for the resolution of the Cyprus problem".
The rejection, according to the Government Spokesman, "not only demonstrates the intransigence of Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot side. A position that is to the detriment of Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, which undermines the efforts for a peaceful resolution of the Cyprus problem but also proves what the real objectives of Turkey and those who have taken over instead of serving the interests of Turkish Cypriots to express the aspirations of Ankara."
Similar to the above statement is the economic cooperation protocol recently signed between the occupation regime and Turkey, concludes Pelecanos.
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