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- Handling without consultations (by Anastasiades on the Cyprob)
- President: He remembered the Annan plan
- Priests: Pay raises by law
It asserts a separate sovereignty
A revealing letter by the occupation regime to the UN, a sample of its true intentions. Nicosia is preparing a response.
- A squabble between MPs in the name of the Archbishop – Priests’ salaries and business.
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- Millions of euros from the state coffers to the Archbishop with parliament’s approval.
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- Turkey, Russia begin joint patrols in Syria
We dump our responsibilities on others
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- The president on the trilateral: I hope reason prevails
- Οccupied areas: Pupils kicked out a teacher wearing a headscarf
- Tatar-Ozersay: We disagree with Akinci, we want a two-state solution
- Priests’ salaries: ‘Yes’ by parliament to the Church-state agreement
Main News
Anastasiades: Hopefully reason will prevail within TC side during trilateral
Alithia, Haravgi, Phileleftheros, Politis
Negotiations Process, Regional/International Relations
OVERVIEW
President Nicos Anastasiades expressed hope
that reason would prevail during the trilateral meeting later in the month and
that the TCs would not make claims that go beyond the appropriate framework
within which the dialogue should take place, the dailies reported on Saturday.
According to the dailies, Anastasiades,
who was addressing Cypriots living in northern Greece, said that he is
expecting that a five-party meeting would take place in December and that the government’s
aim was a solution to the Cyprus problem, which will give substantive answers
to all the open issues as regards the functionality of the state, its European
identity, its sovereignty and also as regards the presence of occupation
troops.
He expressed hope that reason would prevail on behalf of the TCs and that the TC leader would not raise claims and exert pressure on
acceptance of anything derailing for the three points on which the dialogue
must be based on.
He also said that although he wishes for positive development as regards the solution of the Cyprus Problem, he is not willing to disregard the will of the majority of the Cypriot Hellenism as expressed in 2004.
Any future solution should restore the confidence of Cypriot Hellenism.
He said he wants to make sure GCs would not reject a proposed solution again should another referendum takes place.
“If I do not feel I have succeeded in creating the main conditions for the functionality, viability, establishment of the European acquis, human rights, basic freedoms, I am not going to agree and impose responsibilities on the people,” he said, according to the papers.
Politis reports that Anastasiades’ reference to the Annan plan was an interesting one given its timing.
Haravgi reports that Anastasiades appears cautious as
to the result of the trilateral and is precautionary blaming the TC side.
Most dailies also cite a quote by the UK Foreign Office spokesperson that told the Cyprus
News Agency that the UK welcomes the prospect of a meeting between the UN
Secretary-General and the leaders of both communities.
“We hope that the meeting will pave the way for the resumption of talks aimed
at achieving a comprehensive settlement on the Cyprus issue. As a guarantor
power, the UK remains committed to supporting this process,” the spokesperson
said.
KEY ACTORS
Anastasiades
>> The GCs’ aim is a solution that will lead to a functional European, sovereign state and address the presence of occupation troops.
>> Hopes TCs will have a reasonable stance during the trilateral & that Akinci will not raise claims concerning the acceptance of anything derailing for the three points on which the dialogue must be based on.
>> While he wants positive developments he will not disregard the will of the majority of the Cypriot Hellenism as expressed in 2004 so he will not agree to anything if the functionality, viability, establishment of the European acquis, human rights & basic freedoms are not ensured because he wants to make sure GCs won’t reject a proposed solution again in a future referendum.
UK Foreign Office spokesperson
>> The UK welcomes & supports the prospect of a trilateral & hopes it will pave the way for the resumption of talks aimed at achieving a comprehensive solution to the Cyprob.
Korukoglu: GCs’ counterparts are TCs, not Turkey
Phileleftheros
External Security, Regional/International Relations, Human Rights
OVERVIEW
According to the daily, the government is preparing a response to the letter sent to the UN by the TCs’ UN Representative, Ismet Korukoglu, in reply to the complaint filed by the Republic of Cyprus over violation of its airspace by Turkish aircraft.
The daily reports that through this letter the occupied part of Cyprus wants to assert anew the existence of a separate ‘sovereignty’.
Korukoglu said in his letter the letter sent by Cyprus’ Representative to the UN Andreas Mavroyiannis on October 11, yet again, distorts the realities on the ground as regards the claims of so-called “infringements of international air traffic regulations” and “violations of Cyprus’ national airspace”.
He said that “flights within the sovereign airspace of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus are carried out with the full knowledge and permission of the relevant authorities of the State, over which the Greek Cypriot administration in South Cyprus has no jurisdiction or right of say whatsoever.”
He also calls as false assertions and groundless the references to the use of TC ports “since the Greek Cypriot administration has no jurisdiction or right of say over Northern Cyprus.”
The TC Representative said these contentions ignore the present realities on the ground, “namely, the existence of two independent, self-governing States on the island of Cyprus, each exercising sovereignty and jurisdiction within its respective territory.”
He also said statements concerning the airport in Ercan were false arguing that the north’s area control centre and airport have been providing regular, reliable and safe air traffic services since the GC side’s refusal in 1977 to provide air traffic services in the northern part of the island, in line with its policy of isolating the TC people.
The letter also said that the unjust isolation imposed on the TCs, which the GC side attempts to reinforce by unilaterally calling all air and seaports in the north illegal, was in violation of international law and incompatible with the call made by the then Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, in his report to the Security Council on May 28, 2004 in which he expressed hope that the SC could give a strong lead to all states to cooperate both bilaterally and in international bodies to eliminate unnecessary restrictions and barriers that have the effect of isolating the TCs and impeding their development. He also called on the GC side to discontinue such counterproductive and outdated rhetoric and reminded it that its counterpart is, and has always been, the TC side, not Turkey.
KEY ACTORS
Korukoglu (TCs’ UN Permanent Rep)
>> GCs’ complaints to the UN on so-called infringements of international air traffic regulations & violations of Cyprus’ national airspace distort the realities since flights within the sovereign airspace of the TRNC and use of TC ports are carried out with permission of the relevant authorities in the north over which the GCs have no jurisdiction or say.
>> The GCs’ contentions ignore the present realities on the existence of two independent, self-governing states on Cyprus, each exercising sovereignty and jurisdiction within its respective territory.
>> The airport in Ercan has been providing regular, reliable and safe air traffic services since the GC side’s refusal in 1977 to provide these services in the north in line with its policy of isolating the TCs by calling all air and seaports in the north illegal.
>> The unjust isolation imposed on the TCs is in violation of international law & incompatible with Annan’s call in 2004 to the SC to call on all states to cooperate to eliminate unnecessary restrictions and barriers that isolated the TCs and impede their development.
>> Calls on the GC side to discontinue counterproductive and outdated rhetoric & reminds it that its counterpart is, and has always been, the TC side, not Turkey.