Another informal expanded Five -member Conference on Cyprusthe second in five months, comes today and tomorrow in New York, where the only pursuit is now the demonstration of “mobility” that will cover the stagnation and impasse to which the Cyprus problem has been resolved, due to the Turkish stance in favor of the solution of the two states.
This procedure, under the responsibility of the UN Secretary -General, Antonio Guterreshaving few “successes” showing during his term at the helm of the international organization, he struggles to convince him that the five -day pride is a sign of progress in the Cyprus issue. As the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulidesand the Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar They meet in the presence of also representatives of the three guarantor forces, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Greece and Turkey George Gerapetritis and Hakan Fountan and the UK Deputy Foreign Minister of Britain, meetings – with the responsibility of the Secretary -General – tend to be converted and degenerated into a simple negotiation of confidence building measures, which often escape the context of the two communities and resemble the EU between state entities.
It is characteristic that neither In the five -member of Geneva Mr. Guterres clearly talked about the pursuit of a solution Bi -zonal bi -communaland the same tactic followed a few days ago by submitting his report on the Cyprus issue to the Security Council. Thus, in an attempt to redeem Ankara, which states that the bi -zonal bicommunal federation is “dead” and out of the debate, the United Nations process is ultimately at risk of leading to a complete overthrow of the Cyprus solution, as determined by the UN Security Council but also by the UN Security Council.
His ie UN In his report, in fact, he is pursuing a policy of equal distances and, simply in order not to disturb Turkey, the responsibility for tensions on the green line on both sides are also attributed, thereby avoiding condemning movements of the occupation army that violate the Green Line.
But even this discussion of the MOE (confidence building measures) decided in Geneva shows the magnitude of the problem and the distance that separates the two sides due to the Turkish attitude. The progress made concerns the maintenance agreement … cemeteries and the establishment of youth committee. There are obstacles to the Green Line, while the most important issue, the opening of new diodes, has not made progress, as the Turkish side rejects the Greek Cypriot proposals on the grounds that they relate to “military areas”, that is, the Turkish regions.
The appointment of A. Olgin as a UN Secretary -General’s envoy to the Cyprus issue It was a positive development, but it also seems to be confined to initiatives for meetings with civil society and the MOE, avoiding focusing its efforts to prepare the soil to effectively resume talks after the wreck of Kran Montana.
OR Turkey She sends messages that she is interested in stopping the Cyprus issue from being an obstacle to her European path, but does not seem willing to sacrifice her strategic interests in Cyprus, which are linked to the ideology of the “blue homeland” for some European rewards. In addition, she probably believes that her strategic upgrading and dependence she is trying to create for European defense on Turkish equipment will give her the tools to, with the help of European countries, bypass the reactions and veto of Cyprus and Greece.
It is characteristic that while the N. Christodoulides With the support of Athens, he managed to activate the EU, both by the letter of von der Laen and A. Costa to the UN Secretary -General in Geneva in March and with the appointment of G. Khan as a special envoy to the EU. For the Cyprus issue, it is clear that Turkey will torment any active EU involvement. in the procedures for the Cyprus issue. Mr Khan was not invited to the expanded meeting of New York, and during his visit to Cyprus he found the door of the occupation leader E. Tatar closed.
THE E. Tatarall shows, prepares yet another “performance” in New York, where, by rejecting the encouragement of Ankara, the debate on the substance of the Cyprus problem, he attempts to blame the Republic of Cyprus for the lack of progress in the implementation of the MOE. At the same time, he wants to add another issue to the table: that of the “immunity” of the usurpers of the Greek Cypriot property in the occupied part of Cyprus.
The criminal prosecutions that Nicosia has launched against persons who either as buyers or indirectly as intermediaries have collaborated with abduction and usurpation of Greek Cypriot property, have not only enraged the occupation regime, but also create serious problems at a time.
E. Tatar argues that these persecutions are affecting the ‘climate of trust’ to be created in Cyprus and which is seeking to build the UN Secretary -General. Turkey, however, is also concerned with the fact that the new US administration, although not actively involved in the Cyprus issue, has shown particular interest in continuing the policy of the previous US government in terms of deepening and expanding military cooperation with Nicosia and military cooperation with Nicosia and Nicosia. Cypriot EEZ.
The expanded New York Conference coincides with an extremely delicate phase of Greek-Turkish relations, where the Mitsotakis-Erdogan meeting is constantly postponed, as the necessary progress that such a meeting would have been made has not been achieved. And the Cyprus issue eventually is probably moving away from Athens and Ankara, despite the expectations that may have been that the Greek -Turkish approach would facilitate the resumption of talks on the Cyprus issue.
Nikos Meletis