Anastasiades’ statements are contrary to the spirit of the negotiation process

Former negotiators involved in the Cyprus negotiations process Osman Ertuğ and Ergün Olgun indicated that some explanations of the Greek Cypriot Leader Nicos Anastasiades at the UN General Assembly and at some other platforms are incompatible with the Cyprus realities and contrary to the defined solution parameters, objectives and soul of the ongoing negotiation process.

The former negotiators asserted that the Turkish Cypriot officials remained silent against these declarations and claimed that this is not an understandable attitude.

Indicating that another contradictory approach followed by Anastasiades and the Greek Cypriot authorities at all international platforms, is to see Turkey as their interlocutor in case of a possible settlement, Ertuğ and Ergün said, “This is a clear disrespect to the Turkish Cypriots which are the main interlocutor of the Greek Cypriots and it also shows that they are in a target diversion effort in this regard.”