TRNC continues to assess invitation letter of Annan

LEFKOSA (AA) – TRNC continues to assess the invitation letter of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan who called the sides in Cyprus to come together in New York on Feb. 10 to resume Cyprus talks.

TRNC Presidential Office had a busy day on Saturday. Firstly TRNC President Rauf Denktas received TRNC cabinet members headed by TRNC Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Talat. Denktas also received Turkish Ambassador to Lefkosa Hayati Guven. Meanwhile consultants of TRNC President Denktas, his undersecretary Ergun Olgun and Foreign Ministry Cyprus department chief Ertugrul Apakan, who came to island yesterday, continued their studies in the Presidential Office.

TRNC President Rauf Denktas also received leader of main opposition party (National Unity Party) Dervis Eroglu. Eroglu told reporters after the meeting that his party was against TRNC President Denktas’s going to New York as this would mean acceptation of Annan plan.

Denktas is expected to continue studies with his consultants, negotiator delegation, and Foreign Ministry official Apakan all day. Meanwhile the TRNC cabinet convened under the leadership of Talat.

If a positive decision is taken about the invitation to New York following the assessment studies in TRNC and Turkey, TRNC delegation will leave the island on Sunday morning. TRNC President Rauf Denktas, Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Talat, Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Serdar Denktas and Presidential Undersecretary Ergun Olgun are expected to attend the meetings in New York.