Initiatives ought to be undertaken in order to persuade the international community of our will to find a solution to the Cyprus issue, President of the Republic Demetris Christofias has said.
According to an official press release issued on Friday, President Christofias, who was addressing on Thursday night a book presentation in Nicosia, said that he has personally concluded that Turkey has been, for a while now, accusing the Republic of Cyprus of not wanting a solution, projecting the argument that it rejected the previous UN Secretary General’s Kofi Anan’s plan in 2004, whereas Turkey supported it.
“No Turkish official will hold contacts without putting forward this argument”, he said, expressing the view that “we have maybe underestimated this argument and we still do”.
President Christofias further noted that “we need to work with the international community in order to be persuasive as to the reasons why the plan was rejected”, adding that “we need to undertake initiatives to persuade that we wish for the Cyprus issue to be resolved and that the obstacle preventing a solution is the establishment in both Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot Community”.