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Response to the accusations of the Archbishop of Cyprus that he had confessed that he wanted a two-state solution in Cyprus, gives the Cypriot president Nikos Anastasiadis.
The Cypriot president even regrets the fact, as he states, that “His Beatitude has been perceived differently from his positions.”
According to Nikos Anastasiadis:
“It is a fact that after the collapse of the talks in Crans Montana, in July 2017, I had a series of meetings including, of course, with the Archbishop of Cyprus.
During the meeting, I discussed the reasons for the Conference disaster, as a result of Turkey’s insistence on claims related to the security of the Greek Cypriots, but also the feasibility of a solution based on those claims, which essentially nullified political equality, to favor of the Turkish Cypriots. and Turkey.
In the dialogue that followed, after analyzing Turkey’s objectives, the common perception was that a two-state solution could not be accepted, because in addition to the non-acceptance of a similar regime by the UN and the EU, it also would harm. security of Cypriot Hellenism.
“I am sorry if, from all the dialogue, His Beatitude was perceived differently from my positions.
Furthermore, in the numerous meetings that followed, as he himself claims, he found that I did not support such positions.
“I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate that I stand firm in the proposals that I have presented since September 2017 to the UN Secretary General and since then, in piles of my letters, I have reiterated that the positions of the Greek Cypriot side remain unchanged. , with a view to continuing talks from the point where they stopped in Crans Montana and at the base of the Berlin Joint Announcement on November 25, 2019. “
In the interview with “Politis”, the Archbishop of Cyprus stated that the President of the Republic, in discussions that had taken place in the past, had confessed to him that he did not see a negative two-state solution.
Today, however, he believes that there are no conditions to solve the Cyprus problem, as the EU will not accept two states.
His Beatitude considers Erdogan a patriot, who today “takes revenge” on Europe, who for years used cheap labor from Turkey. Now he knows that the investments of Europeans are in danger and that is why he is blackmailing them.
