Cyprus’ president is rejecting the use of “constructive ambiguity” in efforts to restart talks on the island’s division, saying any new process must be based on previously agreed principles.
In an interview with the Sunday edition of the newspaper Kathimerini, President Nikos Christodoulides said “constructive ambiguity in the Cyprus issue is dangerous,” adding that the current effort concerns “the substance of the Cyprus problem, the big chapters, where constructive ambiguity cannot exist.”
On security and guarantees, Christodoulides said the choices are clear.
“Either Turkey will continue to have guarantor rights in Cyprus, or it will not,” he said.
The president said any settlement “will not be absolutely just,” arguing that a fully just solution would require restoring the situation that existed before 1974.
What matters, he said, is that the agreement reached is “functional and viable.”
