Difficult to square off next week's three-way – Why did the President of the Republic choose to publicize the invitation –? Tatar still refuses – Up in the air next step
After Scottish weekend shower for Cyprus, Nicosia both hopes and worries about the future of Guterres efforts. The UN Secretary-General a few days ago helicoptered the two leaders for a joint meeting next week in New York. Something that will hardly be implemented due to the attitude of Ersin Tatar.
The domino of developments started from the Anti-occupation of the Municipality of Famagusta the President of the Republic, publicly announcing that he had received an invitation from Antonio Guterres for a tripartite meeting on August 13. Nikos Christodoulidis responded and immediately answered positively.
According to the Government, the development came about after several weeks of preliminary work. The delivery of the report and the contacts of Holgin with the Secretary General, the meetings of the personal envoy with Gerapetritis and Fidan, the meeting of Kyriakos Mitsotakis with Guterres and also the brief conversation of Nikos Christodoulidis with Guterres in Paris are connected with it. .
The President's public statement on Saturday night was no accident. It was done in an attempt to make the occupying leader feel pressure and also respond positively for the tripartite. And that's because until then Tatar gargled the bolidoscopy he received on behalf of the Secretary General.
Christodoulides' statements caused outrage in Turkey and the pseudo-state, with Tatar trying to deny that he received an official invitation to a meeting and making it clear that even if such a thing happened, his answer would be negative.
With the statement he made on Sunday, the occupying leader confirmed that he is in a difficult position of embarrassment and weakness. He first rejected any UN effort linked to the framework of the federal solution, stating again that if there is a next day in the talks it will only be for the two-state solution. To re-enter dialogue, he will have to receive sovereign equality in return.
After the tape, he made sure to muddy the waters by launching an attack against the President of the Republic. Using heavy words, Tatar said that Christodoulides' intention is to create a new tetelema and to put pressure on the Turkish side to abandon the two-state positions. He called on him to stop playing games, stop chasing empty dreams and realize the realities.
“As long as it is clear that there is no common ground, there is no need for us to meet in trilateral or otherwise meeting”, the occupying leader finally said, following precisely the instructions he has from Ankara.
All this pushes the holding of a tripartite next week, somewhere between the realm of very difficult and field of the impossible. However, after the volidoscopy was made public, the new impasse has an open name. And everyone knows it.
