President Mehmet Ali Talat in his first day at the Presidency, following his meetings with the political party representatives which have seats at the parliament, appointed the Acting Leader of the Republican Turkish Party United Forces (CTP-BG) Ferdi Sabit Soyer to form the new government.

President Talat stating that an active process was expected in the Cyprus issue, stressed the importance of working in harmony and coordination and said he expected to work with the third CTP-DP coalition government which will be formed under the leadership of CTP-BG Acting Leader Ferdi Sabit Soyer in full harmony on all issues.

According to the constitution Soyer should complete the formation of the government within 15 days. However, Soyer stated that without waiting for the constitutional 15 days period, they would announce the cabinet members and try to meet the people’s expectations in dialogue with the President, Parliament, opposition parties, non-governmental organizations and Turkey.

The Greek Cypriot Leader Tassos Papadopoulos who did not reply to any of the calls made by the UN Secretary General "to send the changes he wanted to make to the Annan Plan", has put forward his stance on this issue.

According to the Greek Cypriot press Papadopoulos speaking at a special congress celebrating communist party AKEL’s 80^th anniversary once more confessed that he did not want a solution based on the Annan Plan.

Papadopoulos stating that the existing situation of the Greek Cypriots was better than accepting the Annan Plan said "What I said then, was proved to be right… It is clear that our situation today is much better than if we had accepted the Annan Plan".