


Anastasiades and anyone else to say, to present any documents or individual meetings that we had, in which we called on him to proceed to actions that go beyond the framework set out by the long-standing positions approved by the National Council. Anastasiades or anybody else hints at such a thing, he/she would be lying shamelessly, and I say so fully aware of what I am saying. Anastasiades that he should accept a bad solution for the sake of reaching a solution. Permit me to make a brief comment to say that AKEL has never proposed to Mr. What has happened after the Crans Montana conference on Cyprus? Every day we will be moving closer to partition. We have to understand that if the Cyprus problem is not solved, the developments that will subsequently follow will be extremely negative. Is it not preferable for someone at the given moment to solve the Cyprus problem, to go down in history rather than undermining developments and engage in a new electoral campaign?ĪK: This is what logic says, not just because he will go down in history…Īnd for the good of the country and people etc.ĪK: Exactly. …Something that did not happen and subsequently during the course of developments we had a reversal of the situation.ĪK: Unfortunately, at that critical moment, Mr. Namely, to put the map on the table, that the line be drawn and by doing so we considered that no matter how the line with the percentage of territory and coastlines would be set, it was obvious to us that the number of Greek Cypriots that would return under Greek Cypriot administration would have approached the percentage that our side sought. What remained pending and where there was a big gap between the two sides was on the issue of the number of Greek Cypriots to return to their properties under Greek Cypriot administration. That is, as regards the percentage of territory that would be under Turkish Cypriot administration and at the same time on the issue of coastlines. Akinci had reached a convergence in two of the three criteria which had been set on the territorial issue. Permit me to say that in Mont Peleran 1, Mr. Since last October, we had witnessed the first signs, in the Mont Peleran 1 and Mont Peleran 2 Conferences. Anastasiade’s change of policy, as you call it, due to his intention to run as a candidate?ĪK: For us it was clear. Kyprianou during SIGMA TV’s “Front page” program on the Cyprus problem Transcript of the replies of AKEL General Secretary A.
