Garoyian: ‘consistency needed’
Marios Garoyian

Famagusta Gazette
10.JAN.09

Cyprus House President Marios Garoyian has stressed the need for
consistency, positive response and substantive steps on the part of the
Turkish Cypriot side with regard to efforts to solve the Cyprus
question.

Garoyian said that Talat keeps reiterating his positions that the Annan
plan should be brought back, about the virgin birth and the existence
of two states and two peoples in Cyprus and that Turkish guarantees and
intervention rights should be maintained.

He said that these positions must not be supported by the international
community and not even by the Turkish Cypriot community.

Garoyian added that if Talat really cares and is interested in finding
a viable and functional settlement of the Cyprus question that will
safeguard the human rights and the fundamental freedoms of Cyprus
people as a whole and create the conditions to build a common future,
he must abandon these tactics and positions, otherwise it is clear that
the Cyprus question cannot be resolved and the interests of Greek
Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots, Maronites, Armenians and Latins will not be
served.

He said Talat’s statements, outlined and submitted at the negotiating
table, give the clear message that the Turkish side does not have the
will to negotiate in a constructive and positive way with a view to
reach a just and viable settlement, whic
h the Cyprus people deserve.