Mar202025

As the Cypriot diaspora in the UK, we welcome the 5+1 informal broadened meeting on Cyprus that is being held in Geneva on the 17th and 18th of March 2025, and applaud the UN Secretary General’s initiative. We urge all parties concerned to do their utmost to ensure that the meeting results in the resumption of formal negotiations, based on all the convergences reached by the Crans-Montana conference and the UN Secretary General, António Guterres’, framework.

On the 31st of January 2025, the UN Security Council with their resolution 2771 reiterated the agreed UN basis for a solution and also agreed to the renewal of the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus.

Resolution 2771 reaffirms previous UN Security Council resolutions as the basis for the reunification of Cyprus. We strongly support the specific reference to UNSC resolution 1251 (1999) which outlines that a solution to the Cyprus problem must be based on:

“A State of Cyprus with a single sovereignty and international personality and a single citizenship, with its independence and territorial integrity safeguarded, and comprising two politically equal communities as described in the relevant Security Council resolutions, in a bi-communal and bi-zonal federation, and that such a settlement must exclude union in whole or in part with any other country or any form of partition or secession”

We are clear that a solution to the Cyprus issue must reunify the island and its people, in full line with all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions, as well as with principles of International Law, EU acquis and Human Rights.

National Federation of Cypriots in the UK

Republican Turkish Party UK

Turkish Cypriot Association for Democracy

14 March 2025