The Turkish Cypriot president defined on Friday a report of United Nations (UN) secretary general regarding ongoing Cyprus negotiations as balanced.
President Dervis Eroglu of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) said the report Ban Ki-moon sent to the UN Security Council was "balanced", and at first glance, TRNC could not say it had complaints about the report.
"The report has some aspects satisfying and pleasing us," Eroglu told reporters after meeting Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias at the buffer zone in Lefkosa.
In his report, Ban said negotiations could not be open-ended, and the UN could not allow unending negotiations.
Ban said there was a serious risk that negotiations could be decelerated when Turkey and the Greek Cypriot administration were about to hold elections.
The secretary general said he would evaluate in the second half of March whether or not sufficient progress was marked for him to re-meet the two parties in Cyprus.
Ban also called on Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot sides to take necessary steps to complete negotiations on property issue.
Moreover, Eroglu said Christofias and he debated administration and share of power and citizenship in their meeting, and they would detail their views in their following meeting on March 9.
TRNC president said they did not discuss Ban’s report, and they would take up the report in detail later.
Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot leaders have been negotiating on a solution to Cyprus problem in a bid to reunify the island since 2008. The island has been divided since 1974 when an Athens-backed Greek Cypriot military coup on the island led to Turkey’s intervention based on its rights stemming from the Treaty of Guarantee.