Christofias
Say Cyprus
Would Share
Gas, No Answer
on
UNSC
Abstentions
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 26
-- After
Demetrio
Christofias'
last UN
General
Assembly
speech as
president of
Cyprus, he
told the press
that he
had met with
and thanked
the five
permanent
members of the
UN
Security
Council.
What
about the
Elected
Ten members of
the UNSC, Inner
City Press
asked him, particularly
the two of
them which
abstained on
the Cyprus
resolution in
July,
Azerbaijan and
Pakistan?
Inner
City Press
also asked
about the
stated
intention of
Turkish
Republic
of Northern
Cyprus leader
Dervis Eroglu,
in his meeting
with
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon this
Saturday, to
present a plan
for
gas
exploration
and
hydrocarbon
exploitation?
Christofias
never
answered the
Security
Council
question about
Pakistan and
Azerbaijan.
But on gas and
oil, he said
he made it
clear he was
willing to
share this
natural
bounty, but
Eroglu
wouldn't
negotiate.
Inner
City Press
asked Ban's
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
what Ban
thinks of
the issue.
Nesirky said
to wait until
Saturday, but
until then to
look at the
statements of
Ban's envoy
Alexander
Downer.
Eroglu
will be at the
event this
evening at the
Roger Smith
Hotel. Watch
this site.
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