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Last April, Mustafa Akinji reportedly told Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlott Tsavusoglu that, by putting a loose federation or other model on the table, "prefers to give up", like the Turkish Cypriot newspaper "Kipris Postasis" in a report entitled "If the federation is relaxed, Akinji can not remain in the presidency".
According to the CNA, the newspaper discusses the April presidential meeting between Akinji, Tsavousoglou and Turkish Cypriot politicians.
The report is based on the statements of the president of the Renaissance Party, Erhan Arikli, who was present at the meeting of April 20, 2018 and who conveyed the image that Mustafa Akinji has much insisted on the subject of the federation and used the word resignation.
According to Erkan Arlikli, as "Kipris Postasi" wrote, the idea of "loose federation" appeared for the first time in a meeting with the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs at the "presidential".
That evening, Akinji called for a resignation, Arliki said, adding that if the parties now decide to negotiate a loose federation, "Akinji could step down and become president of the party in opposition." . .
According to the chairman of the Renaissance Party, who was an eyewitness, this meeting was a "focal point" for relations between Akinji and Turkey: the Turkish Foreign Minister said: "We must discuss a two-state solution and a confederation "with Mustafa Akinji. to declare that "I was elected to negotiate a federation, I can not tell those who elected me that the federation can not exist, if necessary I abandon". Arikli argued that Akinji had behaved properly, according to his own principles.
Erkhani Arikli spoke of the bitterness of the Turkish Foreign Ministry since the meeting, which Mevlout Tsavousoglou himself mentioned during his return to the island (after the presidential elections in Turkey).
At the same time, Barack Bourtziou, a spokesman for Mr. Akinji, said that with regard to the loose federation issue, there are previous agreements on the bi-zonal and bi-communal federation, and he suggested that this framework could be improved.
In statements in Bajrak Bourtzi, he said that "if all this debate (for a loose federation) is a strategic initiative to withdraw the previous agreements and not be replaced by a new agreement, we should show at this stage special attention ".
He added that the discussions should focus on the final outcome, the solution, and that preparations should be made to redefine the role of the UN.
Conciliation, he said, is an essential precondition for discussions and the issue of gas. According to him, "the unilateral actions of the Greek Cypriot side on the issue of the EEZ will have no positive effect".
Source: RES-EAP
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