President Mustafa Akıncı is in New York as guest of the UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon. Akıncı and Ban will come together tomorrow at the UN Headquarters at 7pm Cyprus time.
Akinci who will continue his contacts on Friday will give interviews to Al-Jazeera, the Associated Press and Bloomberg Newsroom. Akıncı and his accompanying delegation will return to the republic on Sunday, the 7th of June. Meanwhile, Akıncı spoke to the press in Istanbul before departing to New York yesterday.
Stating that a solution to be found in Cyprus should be the one which will be internalised by the two sides, Akıncı reminded that the negotiations have been continuing for 47 years and added that at this new phase they have been working towards building a new structure which will safeguard the rights of the two peoples of the island. “Instead of a tango there is a need for a halay in Cyprus” said the Turkish Cypriot leader and expressed the need for a new process with more participants in order to reach the target ahead.
Expressing the need for finding a solution which the Turkish Cypriots will live in security, he said the process ahead will be carried out in harmony, through dialogue and consultation with Turkey.