Everything we are witnessing from Turkey is contrary to international law and the United Nations Charter, President of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades said today.
In his remarks to reporters, coming to the residence of the French Ambassador to France to attend a luncheon on the occasion of the end of the French Presidency of the EU, the President of the Republic, asked how the Government will deal with Turkey's aggressive rhetoric, said "with faith in international law of course and through diplomatic actions. We cannot in any case be drawn into a revisionist rhetoric which the Turkish President is adopting for his own purposes.
Everything you are watching is contrary to international law, contrary to the United Nations Charter, invoking international law as if it were the United Nations.
Yet they refuse when we suggest that there are ways of dealing with the issue through consultation, for example, on the EEZ, an unacceptable behaviour, they interpret international law as they see fit."
Asked to comment on statements by the Turkish Foreign Minister that the Greek Cypriots are making an issue of "two or three beds in Famagusta", the President of the Republic said that "for him, the usurpation of property is a matter of two or three beds. They had only 14% of real estate ownership and they own 37% of the Republic of Cyprus and they have the audacity to refer to two or three beds. It is the ultimate in what we call revisionism. A megalomania, which is based on nothing but the political needs of the President of Turkey."
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