The aim is through our contacts to break the deadlock on the Cyprus problem, President Nicos Christodoulides said today, stressing that he chooses not to engage in a blame game with Ankara.
In his remarks to reporters on the sidelines of his visit to the Pefkios Georgiades Primary School, the President of the Republic, asked whether he has drawn up a plan with recommendations on the role of the United Nations (UN) and how to break the deadlock, said that "I want to welcome, I see as a positive sign this interest that exists from the international actor, either from the UN and the EU.
I recently had a very good discussion with the President of the European Council, Mr Charles Michel, with whom I will have a private meeting on 22 March.
My meeting today with the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Cyprus, Mr Colin Stewart, is preparatory to the meeting I will have with Ms Rosemary Di Carlo.
Our approach and our goal is the involvement of the EU, because we believe that the EU in the current international context, as it has been shaped in particular by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, can have the motivation to lead to a mutually acceptable, a mutually beneficial state of affairs, and that is where we will invest.
But in no case outside the UN framework. I want to make that clear. We always talk within the UN framework.
And it is important that Mrs. Di Carlo will come, it is important that the SG will be in Brussels, he will talk to all the Heads of State and Government of the EU member states about the issue of cooperation between the EU and the UN, and the Cyprus problem is one of the issues where there has to be cooperation.
We cannot waste time in terms of trying to break the deadlock, things are not easy. I am very well aware of the positions of the Turkish side, I listen to and read the statements every day. I consciously choose not to engage in a blame game, to blame and so on. I choose to work in particular through these contacts with a clear objective, to see how we can break the deadlock. It is not easy, but we will do everything possible and we believe that the EU can help decisively both in breaking the deadlock and in resolving the Cyprus problem, which is the main issue."
Asked whether he will meet with the UN Secretary General in Brussels and to a journalist's remark that the Turkish Cypriot leader has asked to see the UN Secretary General, the President of the Republic said that "I saw the intention of Mr. Tatar", adding that "there is no fixed appointment at the moment, I will certainly see him on the sidelines of the European Council, but there is no fixed appointment".
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