Türkiye on Thursday criticized a current assertion by the UN Security Council on Cyprus, saying it violated the sovereign equality of the Turkish Cypriots.
In a press release, the Turkish Foreign Ministry stated: “Detached from the realities on the bottom, the UN Security Council continues to insist on a settlement mannequin from which the Turkish Cypriot facet has brazenly withdrawn its help and which has been tried and has failed many occasions.
“All parties should realize that a federal settlement goal no longer reflects the sovereign will of the Turkish Cypriot people.”
The assertion got here after the UN Security Council issued a joint assertion encouraging renewed engagement on the island within the aftermath of current elections.
The council known as on all sides to indicate openness, flexibility, and compromise with the purpose of returning to formal negotiations to be able to obtain a complete and simply settlement based mostly on a “bicommunal, bizonal federation with political equality.”
Responding to the UN Security Council assertion, the Turkish Foreign Ministry stated: “Instead of selling a settlement in Cyprus, this Security Council stance, which is more and more distant from the idea supplied by the UN Secretary-General’s reviews, is fueling the Greek Cypriot facet‘s intransigent angle that disregards the Turkish Cypriots, the traditional and authentic co-owners of the Island.
“We expect the Security Council to comprehend the fact that the Turkish Cypriots have withdrawn their support from the settlement model discussed in the past,” the ministry added.
Türkiye reiterated {that a} simply, lasting and sustainable settlement to be reached in Cyprus should replicate the desire of the 2 peoples on the island and can’t be imposed by third events.
“We name on the UN Security Council and the worldwide neighborhood to take note of the truth that there are two separate peoples and two separate states on the Island of Cyprus and to reaffirm the inherent rights of the Turkish Cypriot folks, specifically their sovereign equality and equal worldwide standing.
“We underline that this is an indispensable precondition for the start of any new negotiation process towards the settlement of the Cyprus issue,” the ministry stated.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
