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FM Kotzias: We Insist on Full Withdrawal of Turkish Troops from Cyprus

kotzias_1“Some want to create a rift between Cyprus and Greece and the easiest way is to undermine the Greek foreign policy” said Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias referring to the recent attacks against him after the collapse of the negotiations on the Cyprus issue in Switzerland in an interview to private radio Alpha on Sunday.
“The bottom line is the definition of the Cyprus problem which is the occupation of northern Cyprus by the Turkish troops. Let’s say it clearly.”
He referred to the same forces that had sternly attacked him when he was appointed Foreign Minister “forces from abroad and from inside the country that do not want an independent multidimensional foreign policy”, he said. “What annoys them is that we can’t support the position that Turkey can have guaranteed interventional rights in Cyprus or that Turkey can keep its troops in Cyprus forever”.
We insist that the troops must withdraw within a reasonable period and a clause to exist that will give a specific date of the final withdrawal.
Kotzias clarified that the Greek government was not involved in the five stages of the negotiation adding that he even refused to express his opinion to Cyprus’ government. “I was attacked when we refused to go to Switzerland to discuss the territorial issue” he explained and certified Greek government’s intention for a meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in order to examine if there are “any bridges and possibilities for an agreement’.
When asked about newly elected U.S. President Donald Trump, Kotzias said that his election expressed objective and international trends and phenomena that exist and globally and in the EU.
(source: ana-mpa)

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