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E Items-In-Cyprus - Country Files - Turkey UN Secretariat Item Scan - Barcode - Record Title Page 93 Date 15/06/2006 Time 9:27:38 AM S-0903-0005-06-00001 Expanded Number S-0903-0005-06-00001 ™e Items-in-Cyprus - country files - Turkey Dafe Created 09/01/1979 Record Type Archival Item Container S-0903-0005: Peackeeping - Cyprus 1971-1981 Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit NNNN ZCZC STRSS93 SKC04|3 RGN8883 RGNJTUI REY URSK CY GRAs 075 YPOURGEIO'EXOTERIKOh ATHIhAI 75/74 19/12 09 ETAT HIS EX-CE LEftCY m KURT WALDHEIM SECRETARY GENERAL UNITED NATIONS NEERK/USA 1 ANK YOU FOYUR TELEGRAM DATED DECEMBER 14 197^-BY WHICH YOU KINDLY TRANSMITTED TO WE TE TEXT OF THE RESOLUTION 453 (1379) OF THe. bLCURlTY COUNCIL I Afl VERY GRATIFIED THAT THE COUNCIL REQUE3TEDE AGAIN YOCELL£lvCY' TOCGfoTINUL YOUR MSSION OF GOOD OFFICE^ TOWARDS A JUST AND LASTING SOLUTION OF THE CYPRUS PROBLEM BEST WISHES WARM REGARDS GEORGE -RLIS COL EEDUR QOUO RTIKEOL 12.191416 GP/nl 2O November 1979 Gist of Ambassador Eralp's statement before the plenary meeting of the General Assembly on 19 November 1979 Ambassador Eralp developed his statement along three major lines: a) reiterating the Turkish side's support for the inter- communal talks as the only way to obtain a viable solution to the Cyprus problem; b) stressing the Turkish Government's objective as not being the partition of the island of Cyprus; <> c) alleging that the Greek Cypriot side has neither the intention nor the interest to engage in a substantial negotiating process. In the course of his speech, Ambassador Eralp made the following statements which pertain to the present debate in the General Assembly: "The Turkish Government...gives unqualified support to the mission of good offices of the Secretary-General. "provisions that would lead to the internationalization of the question render the present draft resolution even more unrealistic and will inevitably have devastating effects on the intercommunal negotiating process. In short, it is a draft likely to delay the solution of the problem since it fails to recognize the fact that all aspects of the Cyprus question fall within the purview of the intercommunal negotiations. "Thus it is not realistic to call for the implementation of those resolutions in all their aspects without taking into account subsequent developments /Vienna Agreements, the Makarios-Denktash guidelines and the ten-point agreement of 19 May 1979/." UNITED NATIONS GEIERAL GENERAL SECURITY A/3U/659 S/13609 ASSEMBLY COUNCIL 1 November 1979 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH GENERAL ASSEMBLY SECURITY COUNCIL Thirty-fourth session Thirty-fourth year Agenda item 21 QUESTION OF CYPRUS Letter dated 6 November 1979 from the Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General I have the honour to enclose herewith a letter dated 6 November 1979 addressed to you by Mr. Nail Atalay, the representative of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus. I should be grateful if this letter vere circulated as a document of the General Assembly, under agenda item 21, and of the Security Council. (Signed) Orhan ERALP Ambassador Permanent Representative 79-29109 A/3V659 S/13609 English Annex Page 1 ANNEX Letter dated 6 November 1979 from Mr, Nail Atalay to the Secretary-General At the outset of my letter I would like to put on record that we are not at all happy with this endless exchange of letters and counter letters between the Turkish and Greek sides. We are of the opinion that it is all a waste of time and materials especially of the Organization. Not much will "be achieved by the litany of accusations and counter accusations. These only poison the atmosphere and hinder the process of negotiations which you are doing everything possible to encourage between the representatives of the two communities. In this spirit and upon instructions from my Government I have the honour to refer to the letter circulated as a document of the United Nations (A/3^/6U7- 8/13605) on 2 November 1979 and signed by Mr. Andreas Mavrommatis as the so-called "Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the United Nations" and answer his baseless allegations: 1. As Your Excellency is well aware, in May 1975 the representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), who had been sitting with the sub-committee on humanitarian matters, informed the sub-committee that ICRC's help on humanitarian matters "since the beginning of its action in Cyprus was intended to be a temporary one which would come to an end once the phase of emergency was over". This phase is now over. In spite of this, the practice of exchanging Red Cross messages - without stamps - was allowed to continue while a great number of Greek Cypriots living in the north used the normal postal services of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus (TFSC) to send and receive letters and parcels from abroad. The message-stationary used by the Greek-Cypriot side is the property of the Tracing Agency of ICRC which terminated its activities in Cyprus more than four years ago. Furthermore, the communication activities within TFSC came up for examination when the Greek-Cypriot side tried to cut off all the Turkish Cypriots from all postal communication by its unconstitutional, untimely and discriminating move at the Universal Postal Union. It was then decided that the exchange of messages was not warranted and should have been discontinued long ago. No country in the world allows ICRC procedures and stationary to be used - free of charge - in circumstances of normality which prevails in Cyprus four years after the ending of the activity of ICRC. 2. As regards the so-called "enclaved Greek Cypriots" one only has to look at the relevant parts of Your Excellency's last three reports to the Security Council, including the most recent one, to discover the falsehood of the Greek-Cypriot accusations regarding the living conditions of these people. The extracts below, taken from Your Excellency's report to the Security Council (S/129^6, paras. 35-37) are further confirmation of this fact: A/3V659 S/13609 English Annex Page 2 "35. Medical care available to Greek Cypriots in the north is as good as that provided to Turkish Cypriots in the same area ...". "36. In regard to agricultural activities, there are no major complaints about freedom of movement, Greek Cypriots continue.to have access also to fields at some distances from their villages." "37. As indicated in my last report, there appears to be no restriction on freedom of worship in the north whenever the services of a priest are available." Similar remarks with regard to the living conditions of the Greek Cypriots in the north are also made in Your Excellency's most recent report to the Security Council (S/13369, paras. 28, 29 and 3k): "28. IMFICYP continues to discharge humanitarian functions and to promote normalization of the living conditions of the Greek Cypriots remaining in the north. Temporary visits to the south for family reasons have continued to be made possible on an ad hoc basis, both directly and through the good offices of UNFICYP ..." "29. All transfers (from north to south) continue to be monitored by UNFICYP to ensure that they have been undertaken voluntarily." "3^. No restrictions of freedom of worship in the north have been reported for the period under review." It is obvious, therefore, that the Greek-Cypriot Administration cannot create a case out of living conditions of the Greek Cypriots residing in the north. It is also evident from the same statements of the Greek-Cypriot residents themselves that their living conditions in the north are perfectly satisfactory, and could even be better if the subject were not exploited by the Greek-Cypriot leadership for propaganda purposes, causing apprehension and psychological stress amongst these people. I should be grateful if this letter were circulated as a document of the General Assembly, under agenda item 21, and of the Security Council. (Signed) Nail ATALAY Representative of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus NY/XXII/75 6 November 1979 Your Excel 1ency, At the outset of my letter I would like to put on record that we are not at all happy with this endless exchange of letters and counter letters betv/een the Turkish and Greek sides. We are of the opinion that it is all a waste of time and materials especially of the Organization. Not much will be achieved by the litany of accusations and counter accusations. These, only poison the atmosphere and hinder the process of negotiations which you are doing everything possible to encourage between the representatives of the two communities. In this spirit and upon instructions from my Government I have the honour to refer to the letter circulated as a document of the United Nations (A/34/647-S/13605} on 2 November 1979 and signed by Mr. Andreas Mavrommatis as the so-called "Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the United Nations" and answer his baseless allegations: 1. As Your Excellency is well aware, in May 1975 the represen- tative of ICRC who had been sitting with the sub-committee on humani- tarian matters informed the sub-committee that the ICRS's help on humanitarian matters "since the beginning of its action in Cyprus was intended to be a temporary one which would come to an end once the phase of emergency was over." This phase is now over.' In spite of this, H.E. Dr. Kurt Waldehim Secretary - General of the United Nations New York TURKISH PERMANENT MISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS 6 November 1979 Excel 1ency, I have the honour to enclose herewith a letter dated 6 November 1979 addressed to you by Mr.
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