Speaking during the opening ceremony of the new Berke Dam and Hydro-electric Power Plant in Adana, President Denktaş has stressed that until June it will be clear that the Cyprus problem will be settled or not. The President said that in order to reach a just and viable settlement in Cyprus the Greek Cypriot side should understand the fact that the Turkish Cypriots are the politically equal co partners of the 1960 Republic therefore a possible settlement could only be reached on the basis of two states.

Reminding the statements made by UN Secretary General Mr.Kofi Annan and the EU Commissioner in Charge Of Enlargement Mr. Gunther Verheugen that a Cyprus settlement is expected at the end of June, President Denktaş made it clear “ I said that by June we will be able to see if we can settle the issue or not. I did not say that we will settle it by June.”

Speaking during the panel at Bilgi University, Turkish Minister of State Şükrü Sina Gürel once again stressed that a Cyprus settlement is not possible unless the political equality and sovereignty of the two peoples of the island are taken as the base. He reminded that if the Greek Cypriot side is accessed to the EU this will be against the International Agreements which clearly declares that as a part or as a whole Cyprus can not become a member of any organization unless Turkey is a member of that organization too. He added that if EU takes Greek Cypriot side as a member to the EU despite what the International Agreements dictates this would only bring the permanent division of the island and would leave no chance to Turkish Cypriot side to take free steps for the future.

According to the Greek Cypriot newspaper Kipros Simera, President of Montenegro Mr. Milo Cukanoviç laundered black money in South Cyprus and participated in organized crime.

Sourcing the information from the Italian police reports, the newspaper wrote that

President Cukanoviç had been in collaboration with the Italian Mafia since 1996 and organized an international tobacco smuggling and money laundering net based in South Cyprus. According to the Italian Police Reports, President Cukanovic used Dulwich Company (based in South Cyprus, the company was renamed as Bonarex on 22/1/2001) for the transactions and laundered the black money through Arab Bank of South Cyprus to Beograd Bank (Belgrade).

South Cyprus has an international reputation as a money-laundering center.

As it is known a short time ago the United Nations War Crimes Court documents provided that billions of US dollars belonging to former Yugoslav President Sloban Milosevic has been traced to secret bank accounts in South Cyprus from where he secretly funded the genocide in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo during the 1990’s.