Illegal Bayrak television (27.01.12) broadcasted that the Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu evaluated the results of the Greentree summit upon his return to the occupied area of Cyprus.
Speaking to reporters upon his arrival in Istanbul, Eroglu criticized the Greek Cypriot side for using “its delaying tactics during the Greentree summit”, as he alleged: “We put forward proposals on 3 main challenges, but the Greek Cypriot side preferred to postpone its response”, Eroglu stated. He also alleged that the Turkish Cypriot side came to the Greentree summit with proposals related to governance and power-sharing, property and citizenship which were received positively by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “From the first day, the Greek Cypriot side postponed its response and wanted to evaluate our proposals in Cyprus”, Eroglu claimed. According to Eroglu, Ban is determined to call for a multilateral conference although the Greek Cypriot side had opposed the idea.
“Another Greentree summit will not take place. Ban will either invite us for a multilateral conference or he will announce the end of the process in his report to the UN Security Council”, Eroglu alleged.
In addition, illegal Bayrak (28.01.12) also broadcasted statements of Eroglu upon his arrival to illegal Tymbou airport. Eroglu alleged that President Christofias attended the Greentree summit in New York “to re-convey the Greek Cypriot National Council’s rejectionist stance”. Eroglu also claimed that the tripartite meeting would have been successful had the Greek Cypriot side adopted the same positive stance displayed by the Cyprus Turkish side at the summit.
Alleging that the Cyprus Turkish side had adopted a stance in accord with the UN Secretary General’s 6th of January letter addressed to the two sides; Eroglu said that the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had made it openly clear that the process had reached an end.
“He gave the message that we have reached the end of the road and the issue has to be settled one way or the other”, he added.
Claiming that the Greek Cypriot leader had done everything in his capacity at the Greentree meeting to play for time, Eroglu alleged that he did not think that Christofias will be taking positive initiatives until March this year. Eroglu also repeated that little progress was made at the Greentree summit, a development, he added, he was not happy with.