Statements
by the Spokesman for the Secretary General
on
the Cyprus problem
The
Spokesman for the Secretary General, Mr Stéphane
Dujarric, during yesterday’s (4.6.15) press briefing, at the UN headquarters in
New York, answered to journalists’ questions on the occasion of the meeting of
the Turkish Cypriot leader ,
Mr Mustafa Akinci,
with the UN Secretary General as follows:
Question:
You have identified Mr Akinci as being the leader of the Turkish community.
Would that make him kind of the head of state or government of the so-called
unrecognized “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus”?
Dujarric:
Speaking from this podium he is the Turkish Cypriot community leader.
Question:
On Cyprus, with the election of Mustafa
Akinci there was hope that the island might be finally united. The two leaders,
Turkish and Greek met together in Nicosia. There’s a hope becoming larger even.
Is there something going on, is there an initiative by the UN Secretary
General?
Dujarric:
I think Mr Eide is continuing his work.
I think the signals that came out of the meetings that he hosted were positive.
We saw the reopening of two new crossings which is clearly a positive step.
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