The position that the "slogan" or the "slogan" as he characterized it, "zero army, zero guarantees" is Turkish, was expressed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday morning.
Speaking on state radio, Ioannis Kasoulidis and when asked about Crans Montana, which returned to the forefront after the statements of the President of DIKO, underlined that "the slogan zero army, zero guarantees came from the Turkish side, to show that our side is absurd. They claimed that they could reject it because it left the T / Cs unprotected. "Our position was the abolition of guarantees and the withdrawal of Turkish troops."
He added that he made a footnote that "we mean zero Turkish occupation troops. "No guarantees, yes, and no Turkish occupation troops."
Asked if there were any disagreements then, he said that he did not know what everyone meant and would not sit down now to interpret and accept this bidding tug of war on who was the toughest and most opposed to the abolition of guarantees and troops.
Mr. Kasoulidis was also asked about his presence yesterday in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament where issues related to natural gas were discussed. "I said that progress in the Cyprus issue will facilitate the issue of gas exports and on the other hand stagnation in the Cyprus issue, pipeline efforts and anything that Turkey will resist complicates the Cyprus issue.
"I was not talking about East Med but about gas and export efforts, I was talking about all the issues of exploration, extraction and sale of gas."
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