Republic of Turkey Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, on the Cyprus issue: “We have now made our 5 + 1 offer”, to the guarantor countries of the island, we’ll negotiate at a meeting of the UN participating unofficially, then we’ll decide then in creating a reference document,” he said.
Evaluating the hydrocarbon resources in the Eastern Mediterranean, Çavuşoğlu stated that the riches in the region should be shared fairly and added, “We also support the proposal of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to establish a commission. In fact, there is a great interest and support from the international community, even if they do not explicitly say so. This is the proposal. ” he said.
in New York Cavusoglu, met with members of the Turkish press. Çavuşoğlu made an assessment of the Cyprus problem and the hydrocarbon resources in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Cavusoglu said:
“There are currently two issues related to Cyprus. One of the evaluations of hydrocarbon resources. We have sent our ships there. We have changed the balance. To date, the Greek community and Greece and the international community including the European Union, including the Greek Cypriot said that they should stop their biased activities and that they can continue these activities after guaranteeing the rights of the Turkish Cypriot people, but so far no one has listened to our advice. Maybe they didn’t take us seriously but they understood the seriousness after sending our ships. “
Çavuşoğlu said that the riches in the region should be shared fairly and added, “We also support the proposal of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to form a commission. Even though they do not explicitly say it, there is a great interest and support from the international community. This is a solution proposal. This needs to be done.” said.
Turkey’s argument that the activities of anyone within its continental shelf is a matter of sovereignty Cavusoglu:
“We negotiated for the Federation for 50 years but did not come to a conclusion. Despite all our constructive approaches in Crans Montana, we could not reach a place within the federation because the Greek Cypriot side did not want to share anything with the Turkish side, including political equality. now there should be a result-oriented negotiation.
Çavuşoğlu said that the main issue is political equality.
Çavuşoğlu, “We have now made our 5 + 1 offer, we will talk about what we will negotiate over at a meeting attended by the two sides and the UN and of the guarantor countries, then we will decide on creating a reference document.
Çavuşoğlu said that the UN General Assembly Meetings were very intense and that they had a total of 33 bilateral meetings and as of today they participated in 26 multilateral meetings.
