Again posting this as a main post for all to see rather than lose it in a running thread...a significant statement..lets hope other big wigs follow with the same... I am astonished by the recent military threats of Turkey, an EU candidate country, against the Republic of Cyprus, an EU Member State, and its right to utilise its EEZ. Turkeys threats undermine the EUs energy security and show sweeping contempt towards the sovereign rights of an EU Member State. Moreover, Turkeys actions have seriously harmed the UN-sponsored peace talks. Now, more than ever, there is a need for a comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus question based on UN Security Council resolutions and on the principles upon which the EU is founded, underlined the EPP President. Therefore, I call on Turkey to immediately end its threats against Cyprus and to start behaving as an actor for stability, rather than for instability, in the eastern Mediterranean. Cyprus central role in the EUs energy security is absolutely necessary and irreversible, President Daul concluded. The President of the European Peoples Party (EPP), Joseph Daul, made the above statement after a briefing he received yesterday by the President of DISY, Averof Neofytou about the escalation of military threats from Turkey, including the dispatching of military vessels close to Cyprus Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and, in particular, close to locations where ENI-KOGAS is currently drilling for natural gas:
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 18:03:12 +0000