ANKARA - Prime Minister Abdullah Gul, Justice and Development Party (AK Party) leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis made evaluations late on Wednesday prior to the meeting which would be held on Cyprus issue on Thursday.
Yakis said that they would determine an attitude after their meeting with Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) President Rauf Denktas.
Gul made evaluations on Cyprus issue with Erdogan and Yakis in AK Party Headquarters after he returned from Qatar. Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Ugur Ziyal and Cuneyd Zapsu, AK Party Central Decision Executive Board member and the consultant of Erdogan, also attended a part of the meeting.
Yakis told reporters after the meeting that they would determine an attitude after their meeting with Denktas because they were trying to act with cooperation with TRNC officials in every step of Cyprus issue.
When asked to which point they reached as government wing in the meeting, Yakis said that the meeting was informative, not decision taking and added that they discussed what the third Annan Plan would bring and its difference from the second Annan Plan.
When recalled the statement of the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan who said that they were expecting an answer until March 10, Yakis said that we already knew that they were expecting an answer until March 10, so there was nothing new.
Upon another question, Yakis said that the motion issue was not brought into agenda in the meeting.
When asked whether submitting of motion again could speed up after the statement of Chief of General Staff Gen. Hilmi Ozkok, Yakis said that the statement of Ozkok did not have such a dimension to speed up or not submitting a motion and his statement showed that all institutions of state were in consensus, adding that the speculations which were made in media were rejected by the most authorized person.
(GC-AÖ) 06.03.2003