Greek Cypriot Leader Nicos Anastasiades said he would not be pressured into returning to reunification talks and negotiate under threat or intimidation only to have a forced solution dictated by military might.<\/p>\n
Addressing an official lunch in honour of \u00a0Archbishop of America Demetrios<\/strong>, Anastasiades said that despite Turkey having promised many times to powerful strategic partners that it would contribute positively to the effort for reunification of the island, a few days ahead of the next round of talks it chose to reconfirm its intransigence with military operations which violate the Republic\u2019s rights at sea.<\/p>\n Anastasiades has suspended Greek participation in the talks following Ankara\u2019s decision to carry out seismic surveys in Cyprus exclusive economic zone.<\/p>\n Anastasiades reiterated that the island\u2019s natural resources belonged to the state and the benefits would be enjoyed by all its inhabitants after a settlement of the problem. On the contrary, he added they weaken the prospects of finding a solution and of taking advantage of the incentive offered by natural resources.<\/p>\n Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu<\/strong> urged the Greek Cypriot side to return to the talks without setting conditions. TRNC President \u00a0Dervis Eroglu<\/em> Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras<\/em><\/p>\n The Greek PM\u2019s visit will be preceded by that of his Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos, expected on Thursday.<\/p>\n He will be taking part in a meeting between the three countries\u2019 foreign ministers on Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0K\u00fcfi Seydali<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greek Cypriot Leader Nicos Anastasiades said he would not be pressured into returning to reunification talks and negotiate under threat or intimidation only to have a forced solution dictated by military might. Addressing an official lunch in honour of \u00a0Archbishop of America Demetrios, Anastasiades said that despite Turkey having promised many times to powerful strategic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":757203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,844],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus-trnc","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMilitary threats and violations under the pretext of doing it on behalf of the Turkish Cypriots do not help in securing what is self evident, he said.<\/p>\n
\nEroglu suggested that the international community ought to put pressure on the Greek Cypriots towards that end.<\/p>\n
\nMeanwhile, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras<\/strong> will arrive on the island on November 7 ahead of a tripartite meeting between Cyprus, Greece, and Egypt the next day in Cairo.<\/p>\n