Published January 31,2025
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Türkiye on Friday known as on the UN Security Council to acknowledge the realities on the bottom on the island of Cyprus and “reaffirm the inherent rights of the Turkish Cypriot people, namely their sovereign equality and equal international status.”
“We once again emphasize that a just, lasting, and sustainable settlement of the Cyprus issue can only be achieved based on the realities on the ground,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry stated in a press release after the UN Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted a decision to resume the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) for one more yr.
The peacekeeping drive wants the consent of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) to proceed its actions on a “legal basis,” the ministry said.
Stressing that Türkiye helps statements by the TRNC concerning the decision, it famous, “Contrary to the established UN practices, the consent of the Turkish Cypriot side was, yet again, not obtained for the extension of UNFICYP’s mandate.”
“We remind (UN) that the force is able to carry out its activities in the territory of the TRNC solely on the basis of the goodwill of the TRNC authorities. We also emphasize the urgent need to establish a legal basis for the continuation of these activities,” the ministry added.
It underscored that Türkiye will “fully support” the TRNC on this regard.
The ministry additionally expressed disappointment over the UN Security Council’s continued reference to “outdated settlement models” in its decision on extending UNFICYP’s mandate, regardless of these fashions not being related to a potential settlement.
– DECADES-LONG DISPUTE
Cyprus has been mired in a decades-long dispute between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots regardless of a collection of diplomatic efforts by the UN to realize a complete settlement.
Ethnic assaults beginning within the early Nineteen Sixties pressured Turkish Cypriots to withdraw into enclaves for his or her security.
In 1974, a Greek Cypriot coup geared toward Greece’s annexation of the island led to Türkiye’s navy intervention as a guarantor energy to guard Turkish Cypriots from persecution and violence. As a outcome, the TRNC was based in 1983.
It has seen an on-and-off peace course of in recent times, together with a failed 2017 initiative in Switzerland beneath the auspices of guarantor international locations Türkiye, Greece, and the UK.
The Greek Cypriot Administration entered the EU in 2004, the identical yr that Greek Cypriots single-handedly blocked a UN plan to finish the longstanding dispute.
Source: www.anews.com.tr