LEFKOSA - The Turkish Cypriot state made its foreign affairs proposals on Wednesday, the official news agency said.
The proposals of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus regarding "foreign affairs" had become definite, the official news agency of TRNC said.
TRNC President Mehmet Ali Talat and Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias discussed management and share of power, particularly foreign affairs, in their Tuesday's meeting.
"TRNC has proposed that the founder states should consent to decisions regarding foreign affairs and to be made in the level of the federal government if the issue was one concerning them," the Turkish Agency-Cyprus said.
According to the news agency, the founder states will only be consulted in other foreign affairs issues.
TRNC has also proposed that founder states shall appoint representatives that have a diplomatic status in issues concerning their own field of authority. These representatives will be in the list of diplomats of the united federal state.
Also, founder states can sign agreements on all issues under their field of authority. However, the federal government can prevent agreements under some circumstances defined beforehand.
According to TRNC's proposal, the federal government can suspend any agreement process if a founder state try to sign an agreement with a state that is not recognized by the federal government or that has no diplomatic relations with the federal government.
Any agreement of the federal state shall be enacted after ratification of the legislative organs of founder states.
The TRNC also proposed that the ambassadors and their deputies in foreign representations of the United Cyprus should be appointed from different founder states. It also said that the heads of mission to be sent to the United Nations, European Union and the Council of Europe, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, Greece and Turkey should be equally shared by the two founder states.
The federal decisions on some important issues like recognition of a state, establishment or interruption of diplomatic relations can be made by the chairmanship council.
The Turkish and Greek Cypriot sides will continue discussing foreign affairs on Monday.
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