Foreign Minister Ertuğruloğlu spoke at the Annual Coordination Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the OIC Member States
Minister of Foreign Affairs Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu attended the the Annual Coordination Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the OIC Member States held on the sidelines of the 79th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly meetings in New York and delivered a speech.
Expressing his gratitude to the Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Hissein Brahim Taha for his support and cooperation with the Turkish Cypriot people, Ertuğruloğlu drew attention to the ongoing wars and terrorist attacks in many parts of the Muslim world. Minister Ertuğruloğlu stated that the suffering experienced by the Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus between 1963 and 1974 is similar to the suffering experienced by our Palestinian brothers today, and that for this reason, the feelings of the Muslims in Palestine are deeply felt in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Minister Ertuğruloğlu also touched upon the Cyprus issue in his speech and underlined that after many years of fruitless negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations the Turkish Cypriot side put forward a new proposal for solution in 2021. Ertuğruloğlu continued by stressing that the only way to reach a sustainable agreement on the island is to accept the fact that there are two states on the island today and that these two states have sovereign equality and equal international status.
Drawing attention to the speech of the President of the Republic of Türkiye, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on the occasion of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, in which he reiterated his invitation to the international community to recognize the independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Minister Ertuğruloğlu expressed his sincere gratitude to President Erdoğan for the invaluable support he has given to the Turkish Cypriot people. Minister Ertuğruloğlu also thanked the OIC Secretariat and member states for their solidarity with the Turkish Cypriot cause.
