TRNC President Rauf Denktaş and the Greek Cypriot leader Glafkos Clerides will meet again today after a recess for Easter holiday of Greek Cypriots.

President Denktaş and Glafcos Clerides will continue with their direct talks, aimed at achieving a settlement to the Cyprus problem, at the Lefkoşa Conference Centre.

The United Nations Secretary General’s Special Adviser on Cyprus, Alvaro de Soto, who had briefed the UN Security Council on the latest developments in New York, will also present at the meeting as an observer.

Meanwhile, the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, who will visit the island on May 14, will meet with the two leaders separately. Kofi Annan is expected to urge progress from the two leaders at the direct talks aimed at reaching a settlement by June.

TRNC President Rauf Denktaş in his speech during his meeting with a delegation from the German Greens Party who is currently in TRNC as the guest of the Cyprus Research Center of the Eastern Mediterranean University, expressed his hope that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who will visit the island on May 14, will tell the Greek Cypriots that the Cyprus issue could not be solved by hiding behind the illegal title of "Cyprus Government".

President Denktaş also expressed his hope that Kofi Annan during his visit to the island will have first hand information about the Turkish Cypriots’ sincerity on the Cyprus issue.

President Denktaş said that as long as the Greek Cypriot side is being encouraged by the statements that they will enter into the EU even without reaching a settlement to the Cyprus issue, there will be no possibility for achieving progress at the ongoing direct talks. President Denktaş added that this is what the Greek Cypriots politically try to success and what is envisaged by their national cause.

President Denktaş also stressed that the Turkish Cypriot side will continue to the ongoing direct talks with goodwill, and continue to their struggle to abandon Greek Cypriots from usurping the title of "Cyprus Republic".

President Denktaş invited the German Greens Party delegation to visit the mass graves in order to understand what the so-called Berlin Wall had prevented in Cyprus.. President Denktaş added that “Berlin Wall because this is how the Greek Cypriots have presented this separation to the world. People, who do not know the Cyprus problem will not understand this, but this line which is the cease-fire line agreed by the two sides in 1974 put an end to the onslaught of the Greek Cypriots helped by Greece and prevented those mass graves from spreading to all over Cyprus. That is what the Green Line prevented here".

Pointing out that the Berlin Wall had divided one nation, President Denktaş said that there is no Cypriot Nation as accepted by the former Greek Cypriot Leader Makarios. President Denktaş said the Republic of Cyprus was a partnership state under specific agreed conditions for co-existence.

Reminding that he has been talking to the Greek Cypriot side since 1968, President Denktaş complained that the Greek Cypriot side finds an excuse each time and refuses to sign an agreement with the Turkish Cypriots. President Denktaş added that this is because they were treated as the Government of Cyprus.

Hundreds of Catholics, mainly the Maronites, living in TRNC and South Cyprus yesterday celebrated the Easter Day in Koruçam.

About 150 Maronites living in Koruçam village in TRNC together with the many foreigners living in TRNC, over two thousand Greek Cypriots who crossed into the TRNC from South Cyprus and foreign diplomats attended religious service at St. George Church in Koruçam.