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Eide: Settlement Will Not Be Financed by Cypriot Taxpayers

Espen Barth EideThe premise for financing the settlement is not to leave it to the taxpayers in Cyprus, but get real money to pay for the upfront cost, the Special Advisor of the UN Secretary General, Espen Barth Eide, said in an exclusive interview with the Cyprus News Agency.
Eide underlined that eight months of talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders, Nikos Anastasiades and Mustafa Akinci, have covered a lot of ground, but “we cannot say that there will be a settlement in a couple of weeks.”
There are a few major issues, but then there are all the details that will follow from these issues.
The UN envoy places great emphasis on the European dimension of the settlement, while on the issue of security and guarantees he believes that when there is sufficient trust and credibility in where we are getting to in all the other chapters, this will be the right time in getting the security issues right.
Invited to comment on a statement by a political leader that the “Cyprus settlement is close but still far,” Eide recounted the steps made since the negotiations resumed.
In regards to the cost and benefit of a Cyprus solution that estimates state it will be around 25 billion euros, according to the Cyprus News Agency, Eide made it clear that he has never commented on those figures, because nobody knows. “You cannot know. I can say one thing, every figure I have seen is probably wrong, because it is based on relatively brute calculations without actually knowing all the realities of what the property deal will entail,” he concluded.
(source: CNA)

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