Former Greek Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Rolandis confessed that the Greek Cypriot side was also responsible for the political situation in Cyprus.

Rolandis highlighted that what was expressed in the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's latest report about what Greek Cypriot Leader Tassos Papadopoulos had said about there being some new movements on the Cyprus issue was not true.

Rolandis said the international community didn't believe and was not interested in the Greek Cypriot side because the Greek Cypriot side had created the impression that it didn't want a settlement and didn't take the responsibility for its mistakes.

Continuing, Rolandis said:

"All the plans presented to us by the UN were approved by the Security Council. The Annan Plan was approved in the European Parliament and European Commission with a 90% majority. Commission representative Gunther Verheugen had also said we'd deceived the EU just so that we could become and EU member and gain some advantages, that we had no intention of settling the Cyprus problem, and that the EU didn't believe we wanted to achieve a settlement. Unfortunately we don't want to understand all this and because we can't understand it we will not be able to settle the Cyprus problem.

From the moment we rejected the Annan Plan, it became evident that we had no intention of settling the Cyprus problem at a time when there could have been a settlement and framework.

When talking about the Cyprus issue there is one thing that none of us understands and that is from the establishment of the Republic onwards we too were responsible for the political outcome of the Cyprus problem. Some Greek Cypriots believe they suffered and others believe that the other side (north) also belongs to them. Greek Cypriots don't understand and don't want to understand that during the last 45 years since 1960, the sins we committed, especially during the 1960-74 period, were much more than the problems created by the Turkish Cypriots.