“We are monitoring Turkey’s efforts to upgrade the pseudo-state internationally,” he said, adding that “the decisions of the UN Security Council on the status in Varosha are clear and do not need interpretation’.
On his side, Kasoulides said that Turkey is “putting all its weight behind securing an upgrading of the secessionist entity in the occupied territories, which has only been recognised by Turkey”.
He said a summit of Turkic-speaking countries will be held on Friday, where an effort is being made to accept the Turkish-occupied northern part of the island as an observer.
The two ministers also discussed developments in the wider region, welcoming the recent agreement between Israel and Lebanon on the delimitation of their respective maritime zones and noting that the negotiations between Cyprus and Lebanon on their exclusive economic zones (EEZ) are about to begin.