The unilateral declaration of the pseudo-state in the section of Cyprus occupied by the Turkish military – which blocks the finding of a mutually acceptable solution to the Cyprus issue and has led the Turkish Cypriot community into international isolation – is a 29-year, ongoing affront to the United Nations Organization and international law and order.
The UN Security Council has expressly condemned this legally void action and has called on all states not to recognize, facilitate, or in any way assist the secessionist entity that calls itself the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.”
To date, Turkey has unfortunately continued to ignore the Security Council resolutions on the Cyprus issue and to pursue the international upgrading of the illegal secessionist entity.
But it does so in vain, because Greece, like Cyprus, will never accept the Turkish invasion and occupation as accomplished fact. We call on Turkey to realise, at long last, that the resolutions of the Security Council and the Republic of Cyprus’s membership in the European Union determine the basis and content of a comprehensive and mutually acceptable solution.
November 15, 2012