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New TRNC president Eroglu to assess situation with Turkey after taking Oath

20 April 2010 00:23 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Dervis Eroglu, who won the presidential elections in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) said on Sunday that he would make an overall situation assessment with Turkey after taking oath in the Republican Assembly, APA reports quoting turkishny.com web-page.
TRNC Prime Minister and chairman of National Unity Party (UBP) Eroglu said there were six main chapters on the negotiation table aiming to solve Cyprus question. "As no agreement could be reached so far during ongoing negotiations, all the issues would be discussed at the negotiating table and all the parties will struggle to find a way to reach compromise."
Eroglu said he did not run for the president to obstruct the negotiation table but would endeavor for a solution, underlining that it would not be the Turkish Cypriot party that would leave the table.
Eroglu said he would form his own delegation for negotiations and start working.
"It is the Turkish Cypriot people suffering from the status quo. Despite all the peaceful efforts, Turkish Cypriot people all still under blockade and embargoes," Eroglu said and noted that, "to this end, we favor a solution to the problem."
Eroglu said TRNC and its people had difficulty in understanding why they were imposed to embargoes, noting that TRNC was not trying to make an atomic bomb and expected all the states, mainly the EU, to remove the embargoes.
Eroglu said he would also form national council and public council he pledged to Turkish cypriots.
New TRNC President said he worked as prime minister for years and was in cooperation with the Turkish governments, "Eroglu has not become a candidate to obstruct the negotiating table. He run for president to defend rights of Turkish Cypriot people on the negotiating table and to make their voice heard in the world. Whatever have been said, we favor a solution. It should be an agreement that do not have a 3-year life. It should have continuity. There are criteria for this, all those will be discussed in the negotiating table," he said.
"I know how to work as government in Cyprus under embargoes by working as prime minister for 18 years. Being a person experiencing the incidents from 1963 to 1974 I believe in a peace agreement in Cyprus. We will endeavor to make two cypriot people to live in peace. There is no reason not to make an agreement in case the other party displays the same approach. We will be struggling for an agreement under the light of the facts," he said.