The leaders of Greece, Cyprus and Egypt have known as on Turkey to abstain, in a constant and honest method, from provocations and unilateral actions in breach of worldwide regulation.
Furthermore they’ve reaffirmed their sturdy help to a simply, complete and viable settlement of the Cyprus drawback, in step with the related United Nations Safety Council resolutions that decision for a bizonal, bicommunal federation with a single sovereignty, a single worldwide persona and a single citizenship in addition to in accordance with the EU acquis, values and ideas.
A Joint Declaratoin issued after the ninth Greece-Cyprus-Egypt Trilateral Summit, that was held in Athens on Tuesday, stated, amongst others, that Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic, Nicos Anastasiades, President of the Republic of Cyprus and Abdel Fattah El – Sisi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, “underlined the significance of the respect of the sovereignty and sovereign rights of all states of their maritime zones in accordance with worldwide regulation, as mirrored within the UN Conference on the Regulation of the Sea (UNCLOS).”
“On this context, we condemned the unlawful drilling and seismic operations by Turkish vessels in Cyprus EEZ/continental shelf, in maritime areas already delimited in accordance with worldwide regulation. We additionally reiterated our condemnation of the continual violations of Greek nationwide airspace and territorial waters within the Aegean Sea and all different unlawful actions in areas falling inside Greece’s continental shelf, in contravention of worldwide regulation,” the Joint Declaration added.
Therefore, the leaders stated, “we known as on Turkey to abstain, in a constant and honest method, from provocations and unilateral actions in breach of worldwide regulation, together with from harassment of survey vessels duly licensed by Greece or Cyprus, thus serving to to create circumstances conducive to dialogue. We harassed that productive and result-oriented dialogue can’t be carried out in an aggressive setting or beneath the specter of the usage of pressure.”
The three leaders famous that they mentioned the Cyprus problem and “we reaffirmed our sturdy help to a simply, complete and viable settlement in step with the related United Nations Safety Council Resolutions that decision for a bizonal, bicommunal federation with a single sovereignty, a single worldwide persona and a single citizenship in addition to in accordance with the EU acquis, values and ideas. Relating to Varosha, we recalled the Safety Council Presidential Assertion of 23 July 2021, which reaffirmed the standing of Varosha as set out in earlier United Nations Safety Council Resolutions, together with Resolutions 550 (1984) and 789 (1992),” they famous.
In keeping with the Joint Declaration, the three leaders “underlined the necessity to resume negotiations from the place they had been left off and expressed our help for the appointment of a Particular Adviser of the United Nations Secretary Common with the mandate to interact with all concerned, with a purpose to resume the negotiating course of. We additionally harassed that an agreed, complete and viable Cyprus settlement is not going to solely profit the individuals of Cyprus, each Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, however will even considerably contribute to peace and stability within the broader area,” they stated.
Furthermore, they “welcomed the signing of the settlement for the institution of a trilateral electrical energy interconnector between the grids of Egypt, Cyprus and Greece.”
This venture, they famous, “strengthens our financial cooperation and enhances the safety of power provide, not solely of the international locations concerned, but additionally of Europe, as it should create a freeway for the transmission of serious quantities of electrical energy to and from the Jap Mediterranean.”
“The Electrical energy Interconnector venture, which connects the electrical energy grids of our international locations, constitutes an vital part of the technique to speed up the event of the Jap Mediterranean Power Hall, offering another supply of power provide from the area to the European Continent and vice versa,” they harassed.
They expressed their want “to proceed strengthening our cooperation, via a collection of agreements, on the exploration and transportation of pure fuel;” and harassed that “we stay satisfied that the invention of hydrocarbon reserves can function a catalyst for regional stability and prosperity.”
On Afghanistan, they expressed deep concern for the state of affairs within the nation and the dangers it poses each for itself and the broader area and underlined that Greece, Cyprus and Egypt will stay in coordination and can discover methods to deal with collectively, in addition to with different companions, the urgent challenges confronted by the worldwide group, specifically to stabilize the state of affairs in Afghanistan, the struggle towards terrorism, the migration/refugee disaster and the supply of humanitarian help to individuals in want.
“On this context, Greece and Cyprus harassed that the evacuation of Afghans in danger as a result of political persecution stays a precedence for the EU and its member states,” they added.
The three leaders additionally stated that “frequent challenges and developments within the Mediterranean and the broader area require a strategic partnership between Egypt and the EU.”
“We’re dedicated to furthering EU-Egypt cooperation in key coverage areas primarily based on the Joint Communication and the Council Conclusions on a renewed Partnership with the Southern Neighbourhood – A brand new agenda for the Mediterranean,” they famous, including that convening the EU-Egypt Affiliation Council by the top of this 12 months could be a robust and tangible sign of the elevated EU engagement and partnership with Egypt.
Furthermore they agreed that “local weather change needs to be a core part of our cooperation agenda and affirmed that we stay strongly dedicated to the implementation of the UN 2030 agenda for sustainable improvement. We acknowledged that the Mediterranean has one of many richest marine and coastal ecosystems on the earth, but additionally probably the most weak. Its fast degradation requires swift, frequent and concrete responses, in addition to additional regional cooperation, involving all related actors, within the safety of this shared setting,” they stated.
The three leaders agreed that the subsequent trilateral Summit shall happen in Egypt, within the second half of 2022.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkish troops invaded and occupied the island`s northern third. Quite a few rounds of talks beneath the UN aegis to reunite the island beneath a federal roof did not yield outcomes.