GCC Press Review 24 May 2021

Front Page Headlines

Politis

Our vaccination programme is threatened by… thrombosis

The new thrombotic episode of a 40-year-old intensifies concerns and brings reflection.

  • Pre-election campaign: Anastasiades in the role of concertmaster

Phileleftheros

They’re afraid of the nightmare of abstention

Parties are counting backwards to May 30 and are throwing their weight onto the undecided. High tones and messages from party leaderships.

  • 50% of the population got a covid vaccine: Cyprus third in Europe
  • Lawyers-businessmen dominating Parliament
  • Illegal developments are being favoured: In protected areas

Haravgi

Development projects worth €2 billion remained as pre-election pledges

Data by the Treasury expose the government and its new pre-election promises

  • Cyprus problem: Lute going to Athens and Ankara for contacts, ahead of the UNSG’s report
  • Naturalisation passport: Passports intermediary behind political interventions through f/b
  • Revelations by Turkish mafioso: The pseudo-state a centre for carrying and distributing cocaine
  • The new thrombotic episode involving a hospitalised 40-year-old woman under investigation

Alithia

Vindication after 17 years

The vindication of Charis Fereos with a delay of almost 20 years. How Odysseas Michaelides and Tassos Papadopoulos are involved in the case. Tassos spoke of “the biggest scandal since the founding of the Republic”

  • Concerns over the fifth thrombotic case
  • Thriller in the air: Rage in Europe over the ‘air piracy’ of a plane from Athens
  • Studies: Cypriots turning to other universities due to Brexit

Main News

Anastasiades: Turkey creating new crisis

Alithia, Haravgi, Phileleftheros
Negotiations Process

OVERVIEW

President Nicos Anastasiades said it is impossible and unfathomable that Turkey expects that it will succeed in securing a Cyprus solution that falls outside UN resolutions or the UN Secretary General’s (UNSG) mandate.

Responding to statements issued by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday who said that any new negotiations must be between two states and not two communities, Anastasiades said that once again we are witnessing Turkey’s intransigence as well as the goals that Ankara always had.

Anastasiades said that Ankara is without a doubt creating a new crisis that involves and interests not only Cyprus but also the EU and the UN, including the UNSG himself. Anastasiades stressed that it is up to the UNSG and the preparation he will undertake, whether Turkey’s goals can be satisfied in any way.

The UNSG’s Special Envoy Jane Holl Lute is set to travel to Athens and Ankara this week for contacts related to the holding of a new informal five-party summit on the Cyprus problem, the dailies report citing diplomatic sources. Lute’s visit to Cyprus is expected to take place after the parliamentary elections of May 30.

In early July, UNSG Antonio Guterres is scheduled to submit two reports, one on his good offices mission in Cyprus and the second on the renewal of the UNFICYP mandate, to the UN Security Council (UNSC).

A diplomatic source said that the repeated statements by Erdogan and other Turkish officials are limiting the already pessimistic outlook for a constructive second informal 5+1 on Cyprus, the dailies report.

KEY ACTORS
Anastasiades
>> Unfathomable that Turkey expects that it will succeed in securing a Cyprus solution that falls outside UN resolutions or the UNSG’s mandate
>> Through Erdogan’s statements we are once again witnessing Turkey’s intransigence as well as the goals that Ankara always had
>> Ankara is without a doubt creating a new crisis that involves and interests not only Cyprus but also the EU and the UN
>> Whether Turkey’s goals can be satisfied in any way depend on the UNSG’s preparations


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