Commercial Recognition to TRNC

EU’s Enlargement Commissioner Gunther Verheugen unveiled the package in a press conference on Wednesday, saying that "The objective is to free Turkish Cypriots from isolation and to facilitate the settlement of the Cyprus problem."

Stressing that a solution in Cyprus depended on removing differences between the two sections in Cyprus and otherwise, the North will remain poor and Turks will desert the island.

"No one intends to recognize TRNC. Establishing a small Turkish state in the Mediterranean benefits no one" he said.

The package includes; extending a financial aid of 259 million Euro to TRNC in 3 years; export of TRNC’s produce to EU countries from its own ports ; and subjeting export licenses to the approval of the Turkish Cypriot Trade Chamber.