The President of France sees the logic behind our approach to the Cyprus problem and will support our efforts, the President of the Republic, Mr. Nicos Christodoulides, noting that he and the President of France exchanged views yesterday on names and the way this effort will be carried out.
In statements to the media today, the President of the Republic, referring to the meeting he had yesterday with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, said: "Several issues were discussed that relate to our bilateral relations, our relations in the region, our goals and common aspirations, as well as our cooperation within the EU.
I keep two issues as particularly important that I would like to highlight.
The first one concerns the Cyprus problem, it concerns this effort of ours, so that the deadlock can be broken and the talks can resume from where they were interrupted in Crans-Montana. We believe that the way that this can be clearly best achieved is through a more active, a proactive involvement of the EU with the appointment, with a specific assignment of this task to a personality. I am glad that the French President sees the logic behind our approach and not only understands, but at the same time will support this effort, which we hope will bear fruit immediately after the electoral process in Turkey and that we will have concrete results. A few years ago such a development was a utopia, today it is a fact.
Considering such positive developments in the region, I believe that France, Cyprus and Greece working together we can achieve these goals.
We must not forget that the Eastern Mediterranean, the wider Middle East is a region that is adjacent to the EU and as the EU we must have clear objectives and a clear strategy on what we seek to achieve through our cooperation with these states. And in order to achieve this in the EU, you understand that France's role is crucial and I am particularly pleased that the French President sees the need for us to work together in the direction I have outlined."
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