Bagis refers to the Cyprus issue

No1Doyen


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28/03/2011 21:07

The Turkish Minister of State and Chief Negotiator for EU talks Egemen Bağış has said that Turkey will open its ports to the Greek Cypriot Side as and when the European Union removes the isolations on the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Speaking at a meeting organized by the American think-tank organization- the German Marshall Forum in Brussels, Bagis touched upon the Cyprus issue and pointed to Turkey’s efforts towards the solution of the Cyprus Problem

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Reminding that the European Union had promised to lift the isolations on the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in 2004, Bağış said that Turkey will open its ports to the Greek Cypriot Side once the EU removes isolations on the TRNC.



Rejecting claims that Turkey had not included the Greek Cypriot Side in its ‘zero problem’ neighborhood policy, Bağış said that his country was working hard towards the solution of the Cyprus Problem.

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28/03/2011 21:08

Rejecting claims that Turkey had not included the Greek Cypriot Side in its ‘zero problem’ neighborhood policy, Bağış said that his country was working hard towards the solution of the Cyprus Problem.



The Turkish Minister noted that Turkey has prevailed on the then United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to launch the negotiations process and urged the two leaders in Cyprus to continue the negotiations after the rejection of the Annan Plan by Greek Cypriots.