FOREIGN MINISTER AVCI: “ASIAN COUNTRIES HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT IT IS THE GREEK CYPRIOT SIDE WHICH DOES NOT WANT PEACE”

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Turgay Avcý stated that after the Islamic world the Asian countries have also begun to realize that it was the Greek Cypriot side which did not want peace in Cyprus.

In a statement Foreign Minister Avcý referred to the paragraph on Cyprus in the decision taken by the Political Problems Commission of the Second General Assembly of Asian Parliamentary Assembly which took place in Tehran last week.

Pointing out that despite the Greek Cypriot side’s initiatives, the said paragraph was included in the decision; Avcý said he evaluated the paragraph as very well- balanced.

Avcý explained that the paragraph on Cyprus in the Commission’s decision made a call ‘for finding a just, comprehensive and acceptable solution in the island under the auspices of the United Nations’. Avcý added that the Greek Cypriot representatives who attended the meeting tried to include a paragraph which referred to Turkey and the TRNC as an ‘occupier’ and a ‘pseudo state’ respectively and accused Turkey ‘for preventing the solution efforts’, but their initiatives failed.

Foreign Minister Avcý stated that after the Islamic world Asian countries have also started to acknowledge that it was the Greek Cypriot side which did not want peace in Cyprus. Avcý said the TRNC Foreign Ministry was carrying out intensive contacts and initiatives and explaining the Cyprus’ realities in this very important part of the world.

Avcý said he was very pleased to observe that the Greek Cypriot side’s true colors were being realized more and more by the world.