Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, after a meeting with his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides, stated that Turkey cannot have a prospect of regulating Turkey-Greece and Turkey-EU relations as long as it is determined to violate the law in Cyprus, wrote cyprus-mail.com.
Dendias stated that his presence in Cyprus “symbolises the commitment of the Greek government to stand by the Cypriot government and its people, as well as to support international legality”:
“There can be no prospects for the regulation of Greece-Turkey and EU-Turkey relations as long as Turkey is determined to violate the law in Cyprus. The Turkish attack cannot go unanswered,” said Dendias, stressing that the Greek side’s response will be based on international law and values.
The meeting took place before a session of the UN Security Council, in connection with which the Cypriot Foreign Minister expressed the hope that a clear message would be conveyed to Ankara.
“It is clear that Turkey’s provocative actions aim to promote alternative solutions to the Cyprus conflict, which neither Cyprus nor the international community accepts,” he added.
The meeting of the two foreign ministers followed Turkish President Erdogan’s visit to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (unrecognised).
Let us recall that Turkish President Erdogan visited the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (unrecognised) to attend a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Turkish forces’ invasion of Cyprus in 1974, intending to remind of the seizure without derailing peaceful negotiations between the two sides.
Turkey’s president’s communications director Fahrettin Altun had expressed support for the creation of 2 states in Cyprus.
“The two sides cannot live together under the same roof. We must be realistic if we do not want to pass this dispute on to our children,” Altun had said.
