Representatives from AKEL in Cyprus had a meeting with representatives from the All-Party Parliamentary Group For Cyprus and it was a informative meeting on the Cyprus issue and what needs to be done in order to make it possible to break the impasse and continue negotiations on the Cyprus problem with the aim of achieving a solution.
AKEL represented by their General Secretary Stefanos Stefanou,Stavri Kalopsidiotou, and
Toumazos Tsielepis “have stressed that, bearing in mind the fact that Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot leadership have officially moved towards a two-state solution, the only realistic way for us to be able to achieve the resumption of negotiations and have a realistic chance of resolving the Cyprus problem is to continue the negotiations from the point where they were interrupted in Crans Montana in 2017, to preserve the convergences that have been achieved after long and hard efforts, and at the same time to negotiate on the outstanding issues of the Guterres framework.
We have also spoken together with the friends of Cyprus about the need for the British Parliament, and with their own intervention in various ways, to move towards exerting influence on Turkey to change its negative stance, to return to the negotiating table with the aim of finding a solution to the Cyprus problem.
Also present were Bambos Charalambous MP, Sir Roger Gale MP, the High Commissioner of Cyprus in the UK Kyriacos Kouros, President of the National Federation of Cypriots in the Uk Christos Karaolis and Andreas Gregoriou General Secretary of AKEL in Britain.
Finally, we thanked the Cross-Party Group of the British Parliament for its continued positive stance on Cyprus and the solution to the Cyprus problem, and at the same time we exchanged views on how its members can continue to help in this direction”.