"The meeting in Geneva will be informal. There will be no new negotiations to be held there," says Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. [ Ссылка ] Turkey's foreign minister has reaffirmed that the upcoming Geneva talks on the Cyprus issue will be an informal one. #eudebates #Cyprus #Geneva

"The meeting in Geneva will be informal. There will be no new negotiations to be held there," Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday at a joint news conference with Ersin Tatar, president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Cavusoglu arrived in Northern Cyprus' capital Lefkosa late Thursday. His visit aims to "defend together our national cause with a new vision," he said on Twitter.

The Turkish foreign minister held meetings throughout Friday ahead of an informal 5+1 meeting on Cyprus that is planned to be held on April 27-29 in Geneva under the auspices of the UN.

"We believe that we will no longer waste time on the federal solution and that new ideas and new vision should be discussed," he said.

Cavusoglu reminded Turkey's "win-win" approach for a "just, permanent and sustainable" framework and vision to the long-disputed island of Cyprus.

The Geneva talks will seek a common ground for negotiations, Cavusoglu said, adding: "We definitely and certainly will not continue where we left off at Crans-Montana [talks]. This is out of the question."

The 2017 Crans-Montana conference in Switzerland held with the participation of the guarantor countries, Turkey, Greece, and the UK, ended in failure.

The top diplomat further stressed Turkey's solidarity with the TRNC "at any cost," saying: "The safety and welfare of Turkish Cypriot people are of Turkish people."
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No common ground was found to restart the negotiations on the Cyprus issue, after an unofficial five-way meeting held in Geneva which ended in deadlock after three days of talks, the UN announced on Thursday. [ Ссылка ] UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a news conference that the UN will probably hold another meeting two to three months from now, in the hope of kick-starting negotiations.

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“The truth is that at the end of our efforts, we have not yet found enough common ground to allow for the resumption of formal negotiations,” he added.

The two sides lacked consensus to resume peace talks. The Greek-Cypriots support the idea of a federal system, as proposed by the UN, while the Turkish-Cypriots promote a two-state deal. From the Greek-Cypriot viewpoint, the Turkish two-state solution proposal violates the UN-backed resolution plan and will under no circumstances be accepted.

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“Greece went to the unofficial five-part meeting called by the UN secretary-general with aim of creating the conditions that would allow the restart of the negotiations within the context set explicitly by the UN Security Council, namely of a bizonal, bicommunal federation,” said Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias.

“There is not one single chance of Turkey or the Turkish Cypriot side succeeding in this. This was something which was pointed out by the Secretary-General,” Anastasiades told reporters in Geneva.
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