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‘Every wrong decision taken’
The Pentakomo waste treatment plant has been an unmitigated fiasco.
- Another 245 new cases, five nurses at reference hospital
- Comment: Sacred cows need sacrificing for a settlement
Blackmail by Turkey before the five-party meeting
Pursues recognition from government or from citizens through Famagusta and “friendly nations”. How a loose federation is seen as a tool for a two-state solution. There is an antidote to prevent mass appeals by Famagustans to the committees of the occupied areas. How there can be a fund for refugees and why. A formula for Famagusta and refugee issue and set of measures can protect RoC from Turkish blackmail of recognition or annexation.
- G. Aresti: The pitfalls in appealing to compensation committee over Famagusta
- (Editorial) Like Turkey plans it…
- Threat of sanctions: Cracks in Merkel giving Erdogan immunity
- Since 1956…: Mr. Stephen Lillie’s political equality was a British formula
- Savvas Iacovides (opinion): No to Turkobizonal, no to two states, no to partition or annexation, but liberation!
- Phedias Theophanous (opinion): Erdogan’s crescent and Cyprus
- Petros Th. Pantelides (opinion): Realism and fairy tales about Famagusta
- Andreas M. Vasiliou (opinion): No ground for informal five-party meeting
- Marinos Sizopoulos (opinion): New informal five-party meeting on the Cyprus Problem
Slaughterhouses and laws are family business
The chronicle of a covered-up scandal. How Cypra, the family business of accountant general of the Republic, Rea Georgiou, managed to control 80% of the market? How the Kofinou slaughterhouse closed, with the tolerance of Odysseas Michaelides and despite Socrates Hasikos’ protestations? How did the owner of Cypra possess state documents which he used in his complaint to the Commission against the Republic? Those above the law.
- Immediate resumption of negotiations will prevent the worst: Libya will not recognise the “TRNC” – Turkey changed the status quo regarding the form of solution that was agreed throughout the years – Stuck between a rock and a hard place over properties in the occupied areas
- Parliamentary elections: Those chosen by DIKO and EDEK-(Citizens) Alliance
UN flirts with “new ideas”
The International Organisation is ready to discuss alternative scenarios at informal five-party meeting. London’s role and the EU’s no to two states.
- Ozdil Nami speaks to “Ph”: Return of Famagusta might not be on the table in the future
- The Varosha of nostalgia from six young people
- A tough puzzle in UN’s hands
- The forgotten United Defence Dogma
300 Varoshans ready to return
“Once a government is set up, all those who wish it, will return to their properties”, Oguzhan Hasipoglu tells “K”. According to Hasipoglu, Varoshans can file an application to immovable property commission.
- Turkish diplomatic landscape: Flirts with recognition and list of states
- Jane Holl Lute: Broadens contacts to sound out (stakeholders)
- Editorial: State, can you hear?
- Brussels: Annoyance due to Turkey
- Xenia Constantinou (interview): A different solution model would be political suicide
- Famagusta: Where is my sweet home?
There were threats… and they were seeing just a spectacle
- 324 cases yesterday out of a total of 13,443 tests
- Politics: Putting together ballots for parliamentary elections meets obstacles
- (Gilles Kepel interview) Today there is concern over Turkey’s neo-imperialism
- Government did not keep its commitments over “Pournara”
Even closer to the vaccine
Commissioner Kyriakides signed contract with BioNTech and Pfizer. Five nurses in reference hospital and seven Rizokarpaso enclaved found positive for coronavirus – Lockdown at Melathron Agoniston EOKA (nursing home) – More than half of residents found positive.
- Guterres confirmed that Lute began contacts: “I hope the five-party meeting happens” – What was his response on two-state solution promoted by Erdogan-Tatar
- Christos Panagiotides (opinion): Tight or loose federation?
- George Vasiliou: As I used to say, we want a solution yesterday
- Analysis: Everything ready for a new Alexandretta
- Group of 30-40 people: Hooded persons barged into Dasoupoli Lyceum
Main News
Guterres says every side entitled to its own proposals & initiatives
Alithia, Phileleftheros, Sunday Mail
Negotiations Process, Regional/ International Relations, External Security, Energy, EU Matters
Phileleftheros reports that UNSG Antonio Guterres told a journalist that every side is entitled to its own initiatives and proposals, in response to a question on Turkish statements regarding putting a two-state solution on the table.
Commenting on Turkish President Tayip Erdogan’s statement on the need to discuss a two-state solution, the UNSG said that during negotiations every party has the right to take its own initiatives.
He added that the UN’s goal is to bring all the parties together and restart the negotiations from where they were left off.
The Cyprus News Agency reports meanwhile that the Turkish President’s spokesperson, Ibrahim Kalin, visited Brussels on Friday where he met the chiefs of the cabinets of the President of the Commission and the President of the European Council.
An EU official confirmed to CNA that these meetings had taken place, adding that the meetings are related to the process that had been agreed during the last European Council.
Meanwhile, Sunday Mail reports that Turkey has extended the seismic survey work of Oruc Reis in an area south of Kastelorizo until November 29. The area is claimed by Greece as part of its maritime waters, but the two countries have not signed any maritime delimitation agreement.
The ship had been expected to finish its work by November 23. Alithia reports that the Greek Foreign Ministry condemned Turkey’s new NAVTEX and called on Ankara to withdraw it.
Nami: Return of Famagusta might not be on the table in future
Kathimerini, Phileleftheros
Property, Territory, Negotiations Process
OVERVIEW
Former T/C negotiator Ozdil Nami told Phileleftheros in an interview that he believes Turkey’s actions in Varosha aim mainly to shake up the G/Cs and let them know that the return of the city will not always be on the table.
Turkey’s intention, according to Nami’s reading of the situation, is to change the status quo. Turkey does this by taking advantage of the inaction of the UN and the international community to change the rules of the game, both in Varosha and regarding hydrocarbons.
Nami said that it is too early to say whether Turkey will fully settle Varosha and pointed out this would require significant amounts of money to achieve this. If this happens, he said, then it would render the return of Varosha impossible. He added however that he does not see Erdogan and other economic interests in Turkey having much to gain from opening Varosha given the isolation of the north.
Nami pointed out that Ersin Tatar is not the first T/C leader making statements about abandoning the prospect of a federal solution, adding that both Rauf Denktash and Dervis Eroglu made similar statements in the past. We should not discount current efforts to restart the negotiations, since all will depend on the UNSG’s approach, he noted.
Nami said the way things stand, the prospects of an informal five-party conference are not good, since the two leaders are not on the same page when it comes to the agenda of the meeting or the basis for a solution. He pointed out that President Anastasiades wants a return to a process without a timetable and an agreement on what happens in case of a new collapse, while the Turkish side wants to add new options to the table, including the two-state solution.
Nami said that for the 5+1 meeting (two Cypriot communities, three guarantor powers plus the UN) to be successful, then: there should be an agreement to continue the process from where it was left off at Crans Montana; the sides should commit themselves to working within the Guterres Framework; a specific timeframe should be agreed on; there should be a deadlock-breaking mechanism that can be used for remaining issues after the timeframe expires; and finally, there should be agreement on what will happen if one of the sides says “no” in a referendum or abandons the negotiations.
The former “foreign minister” of the north also said that the political map in the T/C community is changing through Turkish intervention in multiple areas, including religion. He added that the lack of a solution in the Cyprus Problem is contributing to deepening the dependence of the T/Cs on Turkey.
At the end of this process, the G/C side will have to choose whether it wants a federation or a two-state solution, while the T/C side will have to choose whether it wants a federation or further isolation.
In an interview with Kathimerini, National Unity Party “MP” Oguzhan Hasipoglu commented on information that 300 Varoshans have applied to the Immovable Property Commission (IPC) and expressed readiness to return to the city. He said that the T/C side calls on G/Cs to appeal to the IPC and communicate their intentions. He added that once a new “government” is formed then anyone who wants to, will be able to return.
Hasipoglu also said that T/C leader Ersin Tatar does not want the opening of Varosha to negatively affect the prospects of negotiations, adding that, in essence, UN Security Council resolutions allow for the return of properties even without a comprehensive solution.
TC power outages mitigated through grid connection
Alithia
CBMs
OVERVIEW
Alithia reports that bad weather affecting primarily the occupied areas has caused damage to an electricity production plant in the north, triggering electricity to be transferred from the government-controlled areas through the permanent interconnection of the grids of the two sides.
The newspaper cites statements to the T/C media by the head of the north’s electricity authority, Gurcan Erdogan on the incident. Erdogan said that electricity production at the Teknecik station had to be stopped due to damage caused by rain to energy cables. This damage caused power outages in Kyrenia, Dikomo and Gerolakkos.
Meanwhile, Kubilay Ozkirac, who heads the T/C workers union, said that the north is now receiving electricity from the grid in the south due to the power outage.