“He has informed us that he will visit Cyprus after January 27” – It will help us in our effort to restart the talks, said the PtD
After January 27, the personal envoy of the UN Secretary General will visit Cyprus, the President of the Republic, Nikos, said on Saturday Christodoulidis.
In his statements on the sidelines of the naming ceremony of the “Park of Missing Children of the Turkish Invasion of 1974” in Strovolos, and answering questions from journalists, President Christodoulidis said that the personal envoy of the UN Secretary-General, Maria Angela Holguin Queillar, has already started contacts of.
He had a meeting with the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Cyprus in New York, he said, noting that it was a “very good meeting”. He added that taking into account what has been discussed, “he knows enough details, he is ready to work and I think he will help us in our effort to restart the talks”.
“He has informed us that he will visit Cyprus after January 27”, said President Christodoulidis, adding that after Cyprus he will visit the guarantor powers, and Brussels, as well as other capitals.
He noted that Mrs. Queillard will not visit Cyprus for a only day, and said that “this is important, we asked for it from the beginning”.
He added that Ms. Quellar has important acquaintances from her previous capacities and in particular as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia. She also noted that she also had a conversation with the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell. “I consider that the conversation was quite important, we have been informed by the European Union itself that it has conveyed its readiness to contribute substantially to all stages of the negotiation process, and we are ready to welcome it to Cyprus and we will do what is possible, no with words, with actions, so as to create conditions for the resumption of talks with one and only goal, the solution based on the agreed framework”, he added.
In response to the question of whether an announcement on his part of the unilateral measures he had announced for the Turkish Cypriots is expected with the descent of the envoy, the President of the Republic stated that there are 14 measures that have already been decided and are ready. He noted that they are “unilateral actions of the Republic of Cyprus towards our Turkish Cypriot compatriots”, and not measures that will be announced before the descent of Mrs. Quellard to Cyprus.
In response to a question about an attempt by the occupying regime to turn the arrest of a Turkish Cypriot lawyer into a political issue for the issue of usurpation of Greek Cypriot properties, the President of the Republic stated that there is absolutely no purpose, “but an illegal action for which a relevant arrest warrant has been issued , which will be implemented' and which has absolutely nothing to do with the talks. “Illegality is illegality and this effort, to bring to justice all those who illegally usurp Greek Cypriot properties, is not going to stop under any circumstances,” he said.
When asked about the attitude of the Turkish Cypriot leader on the issue of Greek Cypriot properties in the occupied territories and in his statements that what is being done “is legal” and asked to say whether property will also be affected in the future, the President said that the warrants implemented by EU member states and the international community are not legal and have been decided by the courts. “There is no justification for the illegality,” he said, and reiterated that the specific issue was not related to the effort to restart talks. He added that, “of course, the property has been affected since this sale of the properties began, a sale which, based on court decisions, is illegal and does not have any legal force”.
