Denktas ready to meet with Annan, but…

Denktas said he was not aware of any such development and he has not received an invitation from the secretary-general, but would accept such a summit call if Annan eventually decides to issue a call.

The Turkish Cypriot president said he was not against negotiations and is ready to meet with Annan within the framework of the good offices mission of the secretary-general but he believed he would not be asked to accept a blueprint the U.N. chief had presented the two sides on the island last November and landed in a deadlock at a March summit at the Hague.

"I don’t think I will be asked ‘Come and accept this plan’ because everyone must know for sure that we shall not accept that plan," said Denktas reiterating that the Annan plan was written by the secretary-general’s special Cyprus envoy Alvaro de Soto in collaboration with former British Cyprus coordinator Sir David Hanney and former Greek Cypriot Attorney General Alekos Markides.

Denktas stressed that the good offices mission of Annan was still continuing but de Soto violated all fundamentals of the good offices mission, allided with the Greek Cypriot side and attempted to make impositions on the Turkish Cypriot side. He said the Turkish Cypriot confidence in de Soto has waned.

He stressed that de Soto was no longer considered as a "friendly" and "trusted" envoy "because of what he has done to the Turkish Cypriot people and to myself."

He reiterated his charge that the Annan plan was nothing but an effort to annihilate the rights and interests of Turkey on Cyprus, terminate the partnership status of the Turkish Cypriot people and patch them up to the Greek Cypriot state as a minority.

He said if ever a call was issued by Annan for fresh talks, the Turkish Cypriot side, taking into consideratiopn the experience of the past years, will decide and declare clearly before sitting in on such talks the issues that it considered as fundamental and on which no concessions could be made.

"We have no time to spend another 40 years in inconclusive talks," said Denktas and reiterated that a Cyprus settlement would be within reach only if the realities of the island were internationally acknowledged.