The two leaders in Cyprus resumed talks yesterday after the Greentree summit; Statements by Eroglu after the meetingAnkara Anatolia news agency (14.02.12) reported that the Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu and the Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias discussed the negotiation timetable in their meeting on Tuesday.
In the meeting, the Turkish Cypriot side brought up the principle of secrecy and expressed its uneasiness over the Greek Cypriot party’s leaking the draft solution document to the press without exchanging views on it.
In statements after the meeting that lasted for two hours, Eroglu said that the two leaders would meet again on February 21 and 28, stating that they would continue talks on the property issue.
Eroglu said that they, as the Turkish Cypriot side, would keep complying with the principle of secrecy and they are aiming to reach an agreement soon.
Eroglu and Christofias met for the first time since the Greentree summit which took place in New York between January 22 and 24.
Following the 5th Cyprus Summit in Greentree, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asked his Special Advisor Alexander Downer to make an assessment by the end of March regarding the Cyprus talk’s process.
“If Downer’s report comes out positive, I intend to hold a multilateral conference in the end of April or the beginning of May,” said Ban earlier.
Recently, Eroglu said that July 1 –the date that the “Greek Cypriot administration”, as he referred to the Republic of Cyprus would assume the rotating presidency of the EU– would be the natural ending of the Cyprus talks