TRNC’s Washington Representative Hilmi Akil stated that the Greek Cypriot leadership, which does not want to share power with the Turkish Cypriot side in a possible settlement in the island, was adopting an unconstructive attitude towards finding a solution to the Cyprus problem.

The newly appointed Washington representative Hilmi Akil sent a letter to the Washington Times in response to an article of the Greek Cypriot Washington Embassy published in the same newspaper.

According to the information given by TRNC’s Washington Representative Office, in his letter Hilmi Akil pointed out that ‘firstly, Turkey had to intervene in Cyprus in 1974, in accordance with the Treaty of Guarantee of 1960, in order to save the Turkish Cypriots from final elimination in the hands of Greek and Greek Cypriot troops and militia and to protect the bi-communal independence of the island’ and did not occupy any part of Cyprus as alleged by the Greek Cypriot Washington Embassy. Akil added that ‘Turkish Cypriot people did not "break away" as a result of this rescue operation, but had been forcibly ejected from the Cyprus Republic by their Greek Cypriot partners in 1963’.

Stressing that in the Greek Cypriot article the presence of the Turkish Peace forces in Cyprus was exaggerated, Akil stated that the presence of thousands of Greek troops, including 20 Greek Generals commanding the Greek Cypriot National Guard in Cyprus was also an ignored fact. Akil reminded that the Greek Cypriot side rejected, with 76% majority, the Annan plan envisaging the reciprocal withdrawal of troops in the island.

Akil also pointed out that the Greek-Greek Cypriot Duo were doing its utmost to prevent the European Council from keeping its promise to remove the international isolation of the Turkish Cypriot people.