ANKARA - Foreign Ministry spokesman Huseyin Dirioz said on Wednesday that Turkey agreed with evaluations of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) officials about United Nations (U.N.) resolution to extend mandate of peace force in Cyprus for another six months.
Dirioz told reporters that the U.N. Security Council took a resolution on November 24 to extend mandate of peace force in Cyprus for another six months.
TRNC Foreign and Defense Ministry expressed its views about the resolution by a statement it had released after the resolution was announced, Dirioz said.
Dirioz noted that they agreed with the evaluations of TRNC officials.
U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution to extend mandate of peace force in Cyprus for another six months on Monday.
There wasn't any new element in the resolution of the Council while the resolution once more gave place to claims that ''violations by Turkish Cypriot side and Turkish forces continued and increased in Akyar village.''
After the resolution, TRNC Foreign and Defense Ministry released a statement in which it had said that the resolution was not binding for TRNC.
The statement underlined that the claims made in the resolution that ''violations by Turkish Cypriot side and Turkish forces continued and increased in Akyar village'' had nothing to do with the facts.
''Security of Akyar village, which is a part of TRNC, is being ensured by TRNC Security Forces Command and it is not possible to accept some infrastructural works necessary for unproblematic border crossings as 'violation','' the statement said.
The statement added, ''this resolution which doesn't reflect realities in the island is away from contributing to atmosphere of confidence and positive atmosphere tried to be formed by initiatives of TRNC.''
(BRC-AÖ) 26.11.2003