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Cyprus Hopes to Rope EU into Sluggish UN Talks, Greece to Appeal to Juncker

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades thinks energy is the keyPresident Nicos Anastasiades returned to Cyprus last night after his two-day working visit to Athens. As one of his spokesmen said, the President returns home “as a tired but less worried man” because it is important that Athens and Nicosia are adamant on continuing the negotiation process with the Turkish Cypriots, “although this process, lately seems to have staggered”.
President Anastasiades briefed the leaders of the parliamentary parties on the progress of the ongoing negotiations which, as he told them, “is not progress at all”. He believes, and this was also his position at the extended meeting yesterday at the Prime Minister’s office, that “it is time to implicate the European Union” in the “solution process”.
It was decided that Greece would undertake this initiative, capitalizing on Prime Minister Samaras’s “excellent relationship” with Jean Claude Juncker whom he wholeheartedly supported as President of the European Commission.
Juncker will be in Athens next Friday, August 4 and, as Foreign Secretary Evangelos Venizelos put it after his private meeting today with Anastasiades, “we will discuss with him all possibilities of this involvement”.
Greek media reported today that Athens could ask the new European Commissioner to examine the possibility of appointing, directly and for the first time, a special EU envoy for the Cyprus talks.
Venizelos said “we will see”, not wanting to reveal more. He added however that he is sure “Mr Juncker will understand that Brussels should inevitably get involved in the Cyprus problem because if things go wrong, the consequences will effect the whole EU”.
The opposition leader Alexis Tsipras, agreed with President Anastasiades that the Cyprus issue “should open up to the EU and the United States”, but added that ” Greece and Cyprus should also find new allies, as the political situation in our area is complex and ever-changing ”.
All Greek political parties, except the Communist party, agreed that the talks should go on. A diplomatic spokesman told CNA that “a lot will be clarified, one way or another, on the 10th August when we will know whether Tayip Erdogan will be elected President of Turkey, as expected”.
President Anastasiades agreed with Prime Minister Samaras that “come what may, we will continue our efforts for a just and viable solution to the Cyprus problem”.
(source: CNA)

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