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[Lordo]

what a surprise, anastasiades is still talking about terms of reference. 56 years and he still does not have the terms of reference. it it takes him another 50 years to work out the terms of refrence than he will need another thousand years to work out peace.

[Maximus]

Why has this taken 56 years, ...... and counting?

Are you not tired and bored of it yet.

[repulsewarrior]

WAR.WIRE
Cyprus rivals no nearer to reviving stalled UN talks


Nicosia, Aug 9 (AFP) Aug 09, 2019
Rival Cypriot leaders failed Friday to make progress in reviving UN-backed peace talks that collapsed more than two years ago but agreed to meet UN chief Antonio Guterres later this year.
"The two leaders... decided to announce their readiness to hold a tripartite meeting with the secretary-general after the United Nations General Assembly (in September) in order to plan the way forward," a UN statement said.

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci held an informal three-hour meeting on Friday in the UN compound in the buffer zone which divides the capital Nicosia.

The two leaders had a "sincere and constructive exchange of views", the UN said, but failed to make any breakthrough in reviving talks on ending the island's four and a half decade division.

The new effort to revive peace negotiations, which collapsed in Switzerland in July 2017, was overshadowed by escalating tensions between the two sides over oil and gas exploration in the waters off the eastern Mediterranean island.

The two leaders agreed to continue engaging in the efforts undertaken by UN envoy Jane Holl Lute that "would enable structured and results-oriented negotiations leading to a settlement with a sense of urgency," the UN said.

The statement marked little progress since the leaders' last informal meeting in February with no mention of the dispute over offshore energy wealth...

...The two leaders simply reaffirmed their commitment to "improving the daily lives of all Cypriots and to implementing further confidence-building measures, with UN support".

...for the record.

[Lordo]

here is an interesting proposal. anastasiades is sending a counter proposal to akinci on a non-paper. what the hell does that mean.

so anastasiades believes that proposing to let akinci know what they are doing regarding gas is cooporation.

can somebody explain him what the word means.

whats with the crutches, has he fallen down when he was plastered again.

https://cyprus-mail.com/category/cyprus/cyprus-talks/

[Lordo]

it seems the gc administration wants terggy to attend the informal meeting in new york. one must ask why? apparently it is becasue they want her to stop drilling.

point 1 - terggy has already said so long as groc continue to drill so will they not only for themselves but for the tcs too.
point 2 - perhaps they are looking for a scape goat to blame once they run away from like in crans montana.

either way the talks are a waste of time

if they are waiting for akinci to lose the election to save their skin, i got news for them, ahinci and erhurman (ctp) are first and second in the polls and ozersay third with tatar fourth. and thats before even anouncing that he is standing.

[Maximus]

Why?

because Akinci is a puppet and Turkey pulls the strings.

The TC's will never be independent of Turkey and they will never "run their own affairs". Turkey will always, pull their strings.

This is part of the problem.

You think the Gc's are stupid and you are so smart.

Turkey has been trying to create more strings that attaches the Gc's the the Tc's so she can control the lot.

Aint going to happen....

[Lordo]

now this is very intreseting.
is anastasiades going to ask for the removal of troops and guarantees from day one or has he changed hismind.
anybody knows where he stands on the issue now?

considering he has been begging for a meeting to start it will be interesting to see what his mental state of mind is.

https://cyprus-mail.com/2019/08/14/all-hinges-on-turkeys-stance-over-convergences-says-government/

[Lordo]

has there been an anouncement in kathimerini recently regarding the terms of reference in cyprus?

[Lordo]

well here we go again. but are things different this time?

https://cyprus-mail.com/2019/08/22/a-new-failure-in-the-talks-is-not-an-option-says-akel/

The leaders announced after the meeting that they decided “to continue engaging in the efforts undertaken by Jane Holl Lute with the determination to finalise the terms of reference that would enable structured and results-oriented negotiations leading to a settlement with a sense of urgency”.

so no more cries of suffocating time scales.
result orientated negotiations where there is a conclusion.
bbf or confederation or two state solution.
your choice.

[Lordo]

https://cyprus-mail.com/2019/09/05/foreign-minister-less-optimistic-after-fifth-round-of-meetings/

what the hell is this new approach? are making it up as they go along.

<<An unsettling backdrop to the rounds of consultations was suggested on Thursday by Turkish Cypriot paper Kibris Postasi, which in an article claimed that Mavroyiannis had met with Lute after she could not get hold of Anastasiades following her meeting on Wednesday with Akinci. He reportedly presented a “very different and radical approach” to the current draft of the terms of reference that is under discussion.

The paper said that Mavroyiannis’ approach “stunned the UN”, though it is unclear what this ‘radical approach’ was.

While Prodromou refused to comment on the article, it was refuted later on Thursday by Christodoulides during his interview with CyBC.>>

refuting it is fine but why not say what it is in your refutal