Nice to hear that the conferrence has been productive and helpful to both sides for a better understanding towards for a better solution.
I wondered why GC participation was lesser than the TCs?
Many suggestions both for pre-settlement and for post-settlement measures were made, the most notable being to encourage bicommunal business ventures.
I too agree that this is the most feasible, less disturbing than direct trade to other countries(for GCs) and would help to accelerate the rapproachment of two communities, under the present circumstances. The problem is it will be limited with only the products that GCs import but nevertheless will ease a small part of economical difficulties of TCs. But I don't think TCs will accept direct trade via "legal" ports.
On the issue of settlers, a consensus was reached between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots on the number of the settlers - 60,000 "with citizenship", 100,000 "including illegal workers". This agreement on facts was seen as a breakthrough. Ohe helpful suggestion that will probably be taken up, was that the European Commission should conduct a census of persons and properties in the north, to prepare the ground for a comprehensive settlement but also for the application of the "acquis communitaire" in the north.
Weird
It's been 7 months that the new migration law was passed in TRNC parliament in order to give chance to illegal workers to be registered workers or otherwise they would be deported. It seems none of them registered and deported or all of them registered as legal workers and some 40 thousand new illegal workers arrived to TRNC. It would be really very good a census to be conducted by European Commission concerning the persons and properties in the North.
