FOREIGN MINISTER AVCI
RECEIVED MACEDONIAN FOUNDING PRIME MINISTER KLJUSEV
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of
Foreign Affairs Turgay Avcý yesterday (12 November)
received a Macedonian delegation headed by the founding
Prime Minister, President of Macedonian Sciences Academy
Strategic Research Center and Executive Member of Foreign
Investments Agency Nikola Kljusev who came to the TRNC to
attend the ceremonies marking the 24th
anniversary of the establishment of the Turkish Republic
of Northern Cyprus.
Speaking during the visit Nikola
Kljusev expressed his country’s willingness to take steps
towards improving cooperation with the TRNC.
Stating that warm-hearted Turkish
Cypriot people made him to feel himself at home, Kljusev
said his country would always be by the side of Turkish
Cypriots.
Kljusev pointed out that the Greek
Cypriot side was creating problems for Turkey, Macedonia
and TRNC, adding that the future should be established by
laying aside chauvinism and the past.
Underlining that sport, cultural,
commercial and every kind of relations should be
established between the TRNC and Azerbaijan, Kljusev said:
“Therefore, we could convince those who don’t want us.”
Explaining that the two countries
should discuss the ways of improving cooperation between
them, Kljusev said the Foreign Investments Agency in
Azerbaijan was a turning point for them.
For his part, Foreign Minister Avcý
expressed pressure for hosting Kljusev and his
accompanying delegation in the TRNC.
Foreign Minister Avcý announced that he
would pay a visit to Macedonia in the near future.
Avcý explaining that the Turkish
Cypriot people had not come to these days very easily, did
not want to experience the painful years of the past again,
said the isolation imposed upon the Turkish Cypriot people
would be overcome with the support of friendly countries
like Macedonia.
Stating that this visit have created
the opportunity to improve bilateral relations between the
two countries, Avcý said the TRNC and Macedonia could
establish close relations in many fields such as trade,
education, culture, arts and sports.
Pointing to the Greek Cypriot side’s
attempts to dampen the improving relations between the
TRNC and other countries, Avcý said despite this, the
relations established would be further strengthened;
representative offices would be established in these
countries such efforts of the Turkish Cypriots would
continue.
Stressing that the Turkish Cypriot
people had come to these days with the help of Turkey,
Avcý said: “This beautiful country is your home; Turkish
Cypriot people are embracing you.”
AZERBAIJANI JOURNALISTS
VISIT THE TRNC
With the organization of the Asian
Dialogue Social Union and Caucasian Media Support Project,
which are NGOs (nongovernmental organization) operating in
Azerbaijan, a delegation consisting of 15 Azerbaijani
journalists working in various newspapers, televisions and
news agencies came to the TRNC.
The aim of this project, which has been
also supported by the TRNC Foreign Ministry and Turkish
International Cooperation and Development Agency (TIKA),
is to enable Azerbaijani journalists to observe the
problems in the TRNC on site and reflect them on
Azerbaijani public opinion, to improve the relations
between the TRNC and Azerbaijan and to further promote the
TRNC in Azerbaijan.
According to the statement issued by
the Asian Dialogue Social Union, the visit of the
delegation of journalists was the first leg of the
lobbying activities carried out by the TRNC and Azerbaijan,
which aimed to improve the relations between the two. It
was pointed out that Azerbaijani journalists besides
meeting with the ruling and opposition parties in the TRNC,
would also carry out contacts at the Near East University
and BRT Television in the country.
