Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer said the Greek Cypriot administration has sent a memorandum to all embassies accredited to South Cyprus requesting them not to meet with the President, Prime Minister, ministers, political parties and civil servants in state buildings as well as with academicians in universities in North Cyprus.

Indicating that this initiative demonstrated the Greek Cypriot administration did not take into consideration the institutionalised structure of the Turkish Cypriot people, Prime Minister Soyer said this attitude was meaningless and fanatical and a sign of disrespect against the Turkish Cypriots.

Commenting on the Greek Cypriot side's memorandum warning all ambassadors in South Cyprus "not to meet with anyone in state buildings" in the North, the Prime Minister said:

"In other words, when people cross over to the North, they will only be able to walk on the roads. They will not be able to meet with any Turkish Cypriots in their institution. At this point, the Greek Cypriot side's stance, just like it was during British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw's visit, has once more been highlighted in the process leading up to (the US State Department's Deputy Undersecretary) Mathew Bryza's forthcoming visit to the island, and indicates that the Greek Cypriot administration do not take the institutionalised structure of the Turkish Cypriot people into consideration. This is very meaningless and fanatical and up until now it has always been a political line that every Greek Cypriot political leadership has followed. In order to further increase his intransigence and protect his status quo, the Papadopoulos administration is disrespecting our people by adopting a stance that completely ignores the existence of the Turkish Cypriot people, is trying to get them off the agenda and turn them into a simple minority ".

Calling upon the Papadopoulos administration not to forget that the UN Secretary-General's call to resume the negotiations was aimed at settling the Cyprus problem and that Papadopoulos would be sitting opposite President Talat at the negotiating table, Prime Minister Soyer said: "Under what right and authority can Mr. Papadopoulos, who will sit opposite Mr. Talat at the negotiating table, continue with his political initiatives to reject the Turkish Cypriot people's institutionalised structure? This is an incident that clearly highlights his own contradiction and insincerity and is an approach that considers the Turkish Cypriot people to be totally non-existent".