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Türkiye condemns U.S. decision to lift arms embargo on Southern Cyprus

Türkiye condemns U.S. decision to lift arms embargo on Southern Cyprus

Türkiye on Saturday condemned the current U.S. choice of lifting the arms embargo on the Greek Cypriot administration from September 2024.

“Following the decision of the United States to lift the arms embargo against the Greek Cypriot Administration in September 2020 and the expansion of the scope of the said decision in 2022, we condemn that the U.S. has now extended that decision’s duration for one year as of 1 October 2023,” Türkiye’s Foreign Ministry stated in assertion.

Türkiye totally helps the justified response of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), it added.

“We want to take this chance to remind that along with the TRNC, now we have repeatedly identified how the assorted destabilizing steps not too long ago taken by the U.S. within the area on the expense of the Turkish Cypriot facet undermine the impartial place on the Island of Cyprus which this nation has maintained for a few years, and represent an impediment to reaching a simply, lasting and sustainable settlement of the Cyprus subject.

“We invite the U.S. yet again to reconsider these policies that put the stability in the region at risk,” the assertion learn.

Türkiye, as a guarantor state, will at all times proceed to make sure the existence, safety and peace of the Turkish Cypriots inside the framework of its historic and authorized tasks, it added.

Cyprus has been mired in a decades-long dispute between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, regardless of a sequence of diplomatic efforts by the UN to attain a complete settlement.

Türkiye totally helps a two-state resolution on the island of Cyprus primarily based on sovereign equality and equal worldwide standing between its two states.

Source: www.anews.com.tr