Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris newspaper (14.06.16) reports that Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci called President Nicos Anastasiades and discussed the issue of accelerating the opening process of the crossing points of Deryneia and Apliki.
According to a press release by Akinci’s office, prior to the phone conversation with Anastasiades, Akinci had a meeting yesterday morning at his office upon his request with officials from UNDP-PFF, EU support office and UNFICYP.
In the meeting, “officials” from the “presidency”, the self-styled undersecretary of the foreign ministry and co-chairman of the technical committee for crossing points Mustafa Lakadamyali, UNDP-PFF Director Tiziana Zennaro, UNFICYP’s senior advisor Lynn Hastings and the head of the EU support office, Alessandro Bianciardi, were also present.
During the meeting, the issue of accelerating the process of the road construction tender by the UNDP in order to enable the opening of Deryneia and Apliki crossing points was discussed. Akinci, at the meeting asked from the UN and EU officials to take immediately the necessary steps in order to launch without any further delay the road tender carried out by the UNDP, which is the final step before the opening of both crossing points.
At the phone conversation, Akinci and Anastasiades affirmed their consent on accelerating the process for opening the crossing points of Deryneia and Apliki.
