Speaking after a meeting with Ban Ki-moon in New York on Thursday, Davutoglu said he had reminded the UNSG that the Turkish side had supported the Annan plan in 2004, which was rejected by the Greek Cypriot side.
“In 2004 we supported the
Annan plan and I suggested to Mr Ban Ki-moon that we now need a Ban Ki-moon
plan before the end of his term to end this long-standing crisis,” he said.
The Turkish PM also called on
the Greek Cypriot side to return to the negotiating table, and for an
international conference to be held as soon as possible.
“Instead of one-sided actions
and provocations about natural resources in Cyprus, negotiation at the table
will be more beneficial. We will do everything possible for a sustainable
comprehensive peace,” he said.
The UN said Ban’s special
adviser Espen Barth Eide continued his consultations.
“When he is ready to unveil something,
it will be unveiled, but obviously Cyprus remains very high on the agenda for
the Secretary-General” the UNSG’s spokesperson said.
The
spirit of Makarios in Anastasiades
Loucas Charalambous writing in the
Cyprus Mail says he is amused by the foolish arguments used by our politicians
and journalists when they accuse the British, the Americans, EU and UN
officials, of double standards when they don’t support our side, which is
always in the right, and sit Turkey, which is always in the wrong, in the dock.
The nonsensical comments made
by President Anastasiades on his Moscow trip combined with the US and British
reaction gave this bunch the excuse to bombard us with their anti-American and
anti-West sloganeering, he says.
This attitude explains how and
why we are in the current mess. It is a sick mentality that is based on our
political mythology of the last 50-plus years which maintains that for
everything that has happened to this country the Turks and the West are to
blame, never us. We are completely blameless, the only ones without sin, while
the whole world has been constantly conspiring to destroy us.
He says we can accept all this
rubbish when it comes from AKEL, DIKO and EDEK and the rest of our political
scoundrels who remain stuck in the Makarios political culture, but when we hear
it from the mouths of Anastasiades and Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides, two
men from DISY, the party set up some 40 years ago with the aim of fighting this
sick political culture, destroying the myths, speaking honestly to people,
modernising our primitive political attitudes, we can only despair.
Both told us that the
behaviour of the Western countries was hypocritical and Pharisaic because they
did not condemn Turkey for its ‘invasion’ of the Cypriot EEZ whereas they
wanted to crush President Putin over the Ukraine. Both are outraged when they
are told that the two cases are very different. But they are.
Our politicians, including
Anastasiades and Kasoulides, pretend they do not know the Cyprus problem.
Turkey does not recognise the Republic and that is the problem. Turkey’s
position – much as we do not like it – is generally accepted by foreign
countries and is along the following lines: The Greek Cypriots destroyed the
partnership state of 1960, Turkish Cypriots have not been participating in it
since 1964, they have set up on their own and therefore the Greek Cypriots
represent only half of Cyprus; Greek Cypriots were not committed to a
settlement that would lead to the establishment of a new partnership state, in
contrast to the Turkish Cypriot who proved they were. For as long as this
situation continues we will look after the rights of the Turkish Cypriots and
will not allow the Greek Cypriots to usurp them.
This is the argument Turkey
uses to justify its incursions into the Cypriot EEZ from which we want the
Americans and the British to kick her out. It is also the reason we are told
that the two cases are not the same. It is understandable that Turkey’s actions
infuriate the Greek Cypriots who have been inculcated with the mythology about
the “Turkish Cypriot rebellion”, the evil US, back-stabbing Britain, nasty
NATO, the hypocritical EU and virtuous, principled Russia by our political
demagogues.
Anastasiades and Kasoulides,
after all these years, are emulating Makarios who thought he could play games
in the ring in which the two world superpowers were sparring, with result that
they crushed us. After all these years and with the benefit of hindsight, we
have learnt nothing from these criminal mistakes.
Neither Anastasiades nor Kasoulides –
not to mention the other political dwarfs – have understood what our problem
is. They continue the demagoguery and the frivolous political games instead of
concentrating on finding a solution to the problem and explaining to people why
it is necessary and the risks of leaving it unsolved, he concludes.
Coffeeshop
The Cyprus Mail’s satirical
column Coffeeshop says that the Mayor of Kyrenia Glafcos Kariolou, who was
recently visiting Brussels, went out to dinner with a group of Cypriot and
Greek MEPs.
Kariolou, formerly a bash
patriot, lost membership to this exclusive club after suggesting that Greek
Cypriots should return to their homes in Kyrenia under Turkish Cypriot
administration.
While the group were chatting
about his suggestion over dinner, Sigmalive’s bash-patriotic columnist and MEP
aide, the colossally self-regarding Yiannos Charalambides entered the
restaurant with a companion and sat down at a table nearby. When Charalambides
saw that Kariolou was among the company, he banged his hands on the table and
said: “Traitors, your are eating with this traitor,” and pointed to the Kyrenia
mayor.
The MEPs ignored him and a
couple of minutes later, he banged his hands on the table again and loudly
announced, “My family does not forgive such traitors,” before getting up and
leaving the restaurant. Interestingly, among the traitors having dinner with
Kariolou was our freedom-fighter MEP Dr Eleni Theocharous, whose parliamentary
aide, Dr Charalambides happens to be.
Dr Charalambides was not drunk at the
time. We were informed that his outburst was perfectly normal behaviour for
him, Coffeeshop concludes.
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