The British Foreign Secretary’s failure to make a reference to bi-zonal, bi-communal federation as the basis for a solution of the Cyprus problem, in his statements after his meetings in Cyprus, hasn’t gone unnoticed. Concerns are heightened by the reports about British novel ideas for the solution of the Cyprus problem, which are a departure from the agreed basis and framework of the solution. All this facilitates the Turkish side’s objective of seeking to put the two-state solution, indirectly or directly, on the negotiating table.
AKEL insists in every direction that it will never accept the partition of our country and the abandonment of the agreed framework for a solution to the Cyprus problem that provides for a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation with political equality, as described in the Resolutions of the UN. We also point out that President Anastasiades, with his well-known sounding outs and “thoughts” is also responsible for opening this dangerous debate about a two-state solution.
However, in view of the upcoming informal meeting, what matters right now is that the President of the Republic convincingly and unwaveringly expresses the consistency of the Greek Cypriot community to the solution of a bi-zonal bi-communal federation with political equality, as well as its readiness in practice for a resumption of substantive negotiations from the point they had been suspended at Crans Montana on the basis of the convergences that have been recorded to date and the Guterres Framework.
The Cyprus President is also responsible for opening this dangerous debate about a two-state solution
