PRIME MINISTER SOYER: "GREEK CYPRIOTS POLITICAL LEADERS DO NOT WANT SETLEMENT"

TRNC Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer stated that it was the Greek Cypriot side that was running away from a settlement and wasting time.

Responding to a question whether there would be any initiative from the Turkish side to start negotiations in 2006, said, it was the Turkish side that is in favour of and spending efforts for the restart of the negotiations. Pointing out that President Talat was continuously calling upon for the restart of negotiations Soyer said, it was the Greek Cypriot political leaders that were constantly running away from settlement.

 

"Matsakis violated Turkish Cypriot people’s moral values by attacking the Turkish Flag"

Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer responding to another question sated that, Matsakis, who was arrested for stealing the Turkish flag and taken to the court, violated the Turkish Cypriot people’s moral, national and communal values.

 

UN SECRETARY GENERAL’S CYPRUS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE MOLLER STARTED HIS DUTY

The UN Secretary General’s Cyprus Special Representative and Chief of the Mission of UNFCYP Michael Moller yesterday started his new post.

Danish Diplomat was appointed to the place of Zbigniew Wlosowicz, whose term of duty ended in Cyprus.

Moller, was the Assistant Chairman of UN Secretary General’s Study Group and the Director of the Political, Peace Force and Humanitarian Relations Office.

According to the information received from UNFCYP, Michael Moller started his career in 1979 in UN High Commission for Refugees and transferred to UN General Secretariat in 1984 where he made different consultancy jobs. He also worked in Haiti, South Mexico, and Iran.

Moller, who was graduated from UK’s Sussex University’s International Relations Department is 52 years old and made his masters degree in US at John Hopkins University on International Relations.