Tatar repeats demands for sovereignty, direct flights, trade before Cyprus talks
The negotiating process for a solution to the Cyprus problem can only begin when the Turkish demand for sovereignty is met, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar re-emphasised on Monday. He added that he would be explaining this over Tuesday’s di
The negotiating process for a solution to the Cyprus problem can only begin when the Turkish demand for sovereignty is met, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar re-emphasised on Monday.
He added that he would be explaining this over Tuesday’s dinner in New York with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and President Nikos Christodoulides, where he would also be raising the immediate commencement of direct flights and direct trade.
In statements to Anadolu News Agency before his departure, Tatar said any agreement from now on would have to take on the form of “cooperation between two states”.
Tatar said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s call on the international community, during the UN general assembly, to recognise the north was “valuable for us”.
He added that a federation was no longer on their agenda during any negotiations.
Tatar said Christodoulides wanted to resume negotiations from where they left off in Crans-Montana in 2017.
“However the formal procedure of negotiations will never begin until the rights of the Turkish Cypriots are accepted and clear preconditions are met,” he said.
The conditions, he said, were “to accept Turkish Cypriot sovereignty, start direct flights and direct trade, and lift the outdated embargo, isolation and obstacles to sports, music and international negotiations.”
Tatar said the Turkish Cypriot side would not be withdrawing from its policy for two states, adding that “this dinner is an opportunity to explain our positions.”
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