Government Spokesman Nicos Christodoulides has announced that the scheduled for Friday meeting between President Nicos Anastasiades and T/c leader Mustafa Akinci, under the UN aegis, will not be taking place.
In a written statement issued on Tuesday, the Spokesman says that due to yesterday`s unacceptable actions, that took place during the World Humanitarian Summit in Turkey, the President of the Republic decided that there is no breeding ground for the meeting to take place on Friday.
The Spokesman says that the President reiterates his determination to continue the dialogue, provided that it meets the rule of mutual respect and the expressed common will to find a mutually acceptable solution and that no unilateral moves take place that lead to the upgrade of the pseudo-state.
Such moves, he underlines, by anyone involved, including the UNSG Special Adviser on Cyprus, do not assist but rather undermine the ongoing process.
Earlier on it was announced that President Nicos Anastasiades decided to cancel his scheduled meeting with UNSG Special Envoy Espen Barth Eide on Thursday.
President Anastasiades was set to leave Constantinople (Istanbul) on Wednesday, however he sped up his departure. Both developments come in the wake of the participation of the leader of the Turkish Cypriot community Mustafa Akinci in an official dinner, following a formal invitation by Turkish President Tayip Erdogan, to attend the dinner he hosted for the world leaders yesterday on the occasion of the World Humanitarian Summit. President Anastasiades did not attend the dinner.
Government Spokesman Nicos Christodoulides has told CNA correspondent in Turkey that the President decided not to attend the dinner, following a briefing he had by Special Envoy Eide that Akinci would be present at the official dinner.
President Anastasiades and Akinci have been engaged in UN-backed peace negotiations since last year with the aim to reunite the island divided since the 1974 Turkish invasion.
Anastasiades is flying to Athens where he will hold meeting with the Greek Premier Alexis Tsipras who is set to brief him on the tete-a-tete meeting he had with Turkish President Tayip Erdogan.
Turkey, whose troops occupy Cyprus` northern part, does not recognise the Republic of Cyprus, in spite of repeated calls by the EU to normalise its relations with Nicosia. Ankara is the only state which recognises the self-styled Turkish Cypriot regime, set up in 1983, in occupied Cyprus.
Cypriot President Anastasiades will not be meeting Akinci on Friday
