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north. those are the top stories stay with us talk to algis there is coming up next . and. in the world. to see. i'm on the turkish side of nicosia considered by some to be the world's last divided capital now this is the buffer zone also known as the green line this demilitarized area patrolled by the un is perhaps the most important symbol of the greek turkish dispute that divided the island of cyprus and nine hundred seventy

four a couple of weeks ago i sat down with nicholas and this theory he's recognised by the international community is the presence of cyprus in practice the only governs the south and greek side of the island now this is what president and the others told me i have called very good message that come. to meet at any given moment we've missed of. in order to a police. to have a talk. where we are planning for the future where we are going to be on accept. what. is going to continue when we have to sit with. decisiveness to see how we could because she said. ok so why do if you're going to use use them i haven't received it and sort of went ok but if. the cypriot leader if he calls you today and says let's have talks

would you accept given us ladies then couldn't you and attended. i've come to south declared an old. cyprus recognised by turkey and guarded by its armed forces i want to find out if the turkish cypriot leader is ready to make that phone call and start peace talks turkish cypriot leader stuff talks to al-jazeera. myself i can just thank you very much for talking to others here on march the thirteenth i spoke with the greek cypriot leader nick was honest as the others and he told me he said i am willing to start to resume peace talks with mustafa if he calls me right now in this interview i will get out and take that call. are you willing to fight that cause. they are always ready for talks but then not ready for taking the decisions the it's the problem do you need to have talks that in order to get to making sure we you know. how many years. since

we have been talking. it was back in one thousand six the eight in beirut that the late president think that it is the stuff that goes on how to sole the cyber problem but is there an alternative to talks it is fifty years yes there isn't a alternative to folks of course if we want to solve the problems we need to talk but at some point been it to take decisions a un plan was presented to both communities we worked through in the sixty five percent yes for. the world to know with even higher person seventy five percent right and yet fortunately they became members of the european union. outside the union.

so i'm all right i learned standing back your position is peace talks cannot resume until the other side takes some decisions is that your position or what i'm saying at this i need to see some indications that. the mentality in has changed we believe that mental transformation is rarely necessary elaborate a little bit on things but having said that in addition to that we definitely we need to have. negotiation at some point but a lot business as usual in other words not to go only issues all the time without any results. it has to be result oriented it has to be as the secretary said strategic kind of agreement and it has to be time won't hear what what does he need to do now to prove to you that it will be results

oriented it will be time bound that it will be serious he has to put aside that there is one cabinet in owning the republic of cyprus and the other community because we wait until the time comes they regard this republic. as if it belongs to only one community in fact this been pretty created all the problems they regard that that this i don't belong to the balance because there are poor they want to to unite. greece and of course that we get the un to move and that the turkish nation that is in these times came came in we wanted to share this island from his perspective he says when i raised that he said look we for government decisions they don't want to be normal eco members and partners

in the you know your country they want to be having a veto power which is not a federal secondly you cannot call what we want veto it is effective participation in the decision making process and in fact at the central government level he already accepted that there would be one favorable ward in this decision making in what is hard to understand. having our creed to this most important fun executive council of the council of ministers he's denying this right from the top because it goes at the list in important level we're talking about further all committees. and he says you know we are going against exploration you're talking about or not all guys are exploration is ok with the arjun the it doesn't he doesn't want to hear about that

we are talking about. about short term for their organs which are mainly related with the e.u. issues and so on and so for. we are saying that if there is going to be equal numbers no problem but if there is going to be a morality tricksy pro three presentation and that's number talk as you propose there it is to have one single favorable work they're not asking all the top to ship us to vote favorite uplifts that are moans every thought that i understand but they are saying that at least one turkish ship go order. in the other case is one favorable walk from each to come you don't think that could paralyze the central turn it into a situation where no decision if you don't consider the feelings of the other side that we have parlays the state functions if say there is a committee six plus three and if all three is against on short to

mutter that means that there is a communal issue there there is a problem of that and you have to look into that matter but i want to continue with the mental change thing because i believe it is important for the international community to realize what kind of stuff as we are having here in front of a prospective solution we have formed an education committee in order to give peace education to our young younger generations. there is a project called imagine under the un and so on the young people are coming in with their teachers the buffer zone the greek ship of turkish cypriots that they meet and they get to know each other when it comes to exchange of these it's almost sights we are already our students our teachers simple so they can actually build

schools but when it comes for the reciprocity they say no but is that what's stopping you from resuming talks is it that issue and you mentioned the joint committee having a joint committee to resolve gas and then let me finish please this is this is important showing the mentality because they way their way don't they come when they say that they don't accept that we have a school they don't agree that the turkish ship built schools exist and if they come they will be recalled knighting i want to state it's nonsense then regarding mobile aid forms if you go anywhere on earth you can communicate with cyprus but if you go to propose you lose all your contacts with your home and wife for safe they come to cleaning up they cannot contact but with that whole we have sort of thought all the technicalities of that are no problems

at all. so at the very last moment they introduced the program to us they said. we have a legal. but here we cannot communicate with the operators again and other nonsense electricity interconnections it will give relief to the system we will be able to add more renewable energy like solar energy if there is a public cut theory we know it will not visit because the system will feed it automatically it is a system which will benefit the whole island they say no after their social lust example we have fire. him that there is a fire they say if it is on your side we are a good tool said there are a cause but our limbs or the government everything will remain on their way cause

but if you send us to distinguish the fire on our side you will remove the car you remove everything. you know this kind of a mentality is rejecting the very existence of the other. community be what they were and if you don't try to transform of the negative. then you are not ready to share that's the problem right so you're about ready to leave power this shows a lack of recognition for your existence that's the way you feel how would you say that mr can do to those who'd say however justified or unjustified those feelings are those issues should be sorted out. after talks that's what you talk about in the movie to have a joint future where you do share a doctrine no you have you know why i say no because of those issues that they have numerator to moil interoperability electricity interconnections

education committee and visits and so on joy they ass exploration as well you know i would come to that in a minute and all these you can add more and more create together. and try to acceptable bible so it's on the twenty eight or may two thousand and fifteen as confidence building measures it's a create rights and it's not implement that that's what i'm saying that if we cannot drop what respected people. our respective communities that we can be confidence through these kind of simple measures how are we going to deal with the big issue of so regarding the nature of us. energy or we get some of those i'll just to make it clear your position is that these confidence building measures must

be implemented before peace talks can resume is that your position it is too short to give me a tool to show to my. people that something is moving in the right direction right to you means some hope that there is a kind of a mental shift and i meant the transformation ok that i'm not saying that this is all i can motor but since we have time constraints i wear all that i just want to give some examples of how i see it regarding public sharing and the right eric what is you know the x.'s on it all the other side i'm not saying that this is going to be in or requote mission or i want to state no but it is fulfilling their obligations you you promise that you're going to police and you're denying if you've got a thing the exploration of the natural gas before we adopt these

confidence building measure that i have just mentioned. before it was the starting off the show the negotiations which was on the fifteenth of may two thousand and fifteen four days prior to that on the eleventh when we first met at the little apollos or at that meeting we developed motorola on that is standing i am not saying that it is a written agreement but much of understanding of that how to approach expiration of natural gas because because even through from the negotiations with my. when he was conducting the my presence is. due to the fact that but about those very. came in make sure raise on behalf of the talk is cheap. but a bottle ship in those days and here we to do when we start to twelve

discussion i said to him what is your plans for the future are you going to continue this exploration draining. if you do you know that there would be reciprocity to that and therefore there would be trouble they get it told me look here for the foreseeable future i don't have any plans the prices are going down there are all those prices are weighing down. i am they won the war dismantle the platform and send it their way he told me that's how we started are you feel you were misled and let down by a he didn't he doesn't keep his promise i mean when it comes to the convent are you hearing me would say the same things i say the turkish cypriots made unreasonable demands and they want to hold back development in the country and that's even the e.u. position i'm sure you're aware on march the twenty fourth the european union released

what it describes a statement describing even turkish actions in the eastern mediterranean as illegal and called upon and chris to respect cypriot sovereignty and right to develop and explore now look here if if we're going to. develop motorola and that is standing in the v. want to pave the way for a reasonable solution. we have we have to take into consideration. how we can manage these energy issue in such a way that we each instead of three getting tensions it will develop corporation not only in monkey talk kitchen greek cypriots but also among the all the countries in the area which are disputing including total key and he's here i come to my vision regarding this is that i'm in the tent and let me in a very brief man that explain to. this neutral does issue can be beneficial for

ever but i hope that there would be more deposits. and i want cyprus right the. best the very cheapest way easiest race shortest way to send this is where turkey it's accepted by everybody that's the most logical route why up toward a few to china to to european union which really create the conditions to have this dependence on russian as meaning beneficial for you or repair union as well right and then. i am saying and i am not stopping here i am i think another important infrastructure element that is water. we are bringing in

portable water room turkey so five million cubic meters per anum for now but under the sea level two hundred fifty meters on the sea the source but in that kind of a system. we have been pouring this water from turkey it will nor cyprus at some point all shore. important water from greece by ten casts before this really try to bring in the bar loans you know. there for so the current situation is not in anyone's interest is the point that you're making it should be a more. inclusive way to approach exactly any this does not stop your knee on the nature of those sure you can water in your gut electricity which can connect in the let me call this on that point you said you want natural resources to be

a factor that brings people together rather than divides people exactly how would you respond to those who would say that. allowing the turkish troops ship deep sea metro to to explore for oil and gas off the coast of northern cyprus is an example of you doing exactly the same thing that you're complaining about the south doing which is unilateral exploration. ok let's don't do it all together you're willing to stop it if the other side is winning so. tell me any other if there is any other option i mean if you say that i'm not doing it then you will not see the reaction in in the same term or that means that you have a low. possibilities to continue for sorting a peaceful ways and means but if you insist that it is part of your sovereignty and you cannot accept the others. to interfere and when the

time comes we will give you the fair share in coach so the talk is cheap. prospect you don't buy a horse our glorious partners over you. that means that you don't leave any other option for the turkish cypriots to ask the assistance of turkey to do the same. i am not saying that i am for. as they call it the gumbo diplomacy and so on and so forth to stop breeding and so on i don't know what happens though but i am saying what i think what i believe is the correct approach i believe we. ask. assistance to bring in the. new we. or i don't know what is the status of that ship deep sea magic which is very furbished. to help carl you've given them that mission and you've made that request

for them to come and bring it into it so we have all that it done that you know that there are assigned to produce. for me do you still believe there is hope for a peace deal then because it sounds like the two sides i've spoken to you and i've had the pleasure of speaking to president and the others as well now and i'm just wondering do you still believe there is hope for a peace deal on this island at least any time soon it's. getting more and more difficult the more and more complex there is a nice word you know hope dies last but you have to work hard and don't leave it alone. you have to work to keep it alive always just getting past what things seem to be heating up in the eastern mediterranean greece's defense minister says for example his country is close to what he calls a fatal accident with turkey how worried are you about the possibility of

accidental confrontation it seems like a lot of countries now have the navies we know the u.s. has the. russia has a nuclear powered submarine the israelis were conducting war games not long ago the americans were watching the russians. it's crowded out there isn't there are you worried if you crowd that because it is an important area. that makes you want to go but there could be accidental confrontation or is that an exaggeration it could be i could not say that. everything is fine and there are thing. we'd be under pons wrong. sometimes certain things can happen unwittingly and accidentally therefore the best thing not to do these. two to keep away certain accidents is to establish

a meaningful dialogue that is why i am saying that the greeks should go so it needs to change this is another example to change mentality and to establish a dialogue with their. partners at this future partner all partners and future partners because we were together in the republic or cyprus that didn't belong to them along it was a partnership and this place was the place to the residence of the first wise president of the nineteen sixty joint republic late the door for the trip. but the good ship goes simply says we left the offices we ran away no they want to tour in this republic into a greek cypriot and greek republic that's why all the trouble the stuff the but anyway. for before the natural gas i see

a big opportunity. if three to properly handle properly. without any fear of accident and the others. we can get more child benefit of tophet and not only us i really do wish there were other if not tens of properly if you are may expect. in it do you believe the greek cypriot side has asked the u.s. navy to protect eggs on mobile ships is that something you believe has been a lot of talk about it in the cypriot press or i don't know on that is what. it was you know because it was published so although you believe that this was i know do you believe i need to have some other in order not to believe this stuff i can just thank you so much for talking to our business thank you for.

my. on the benefit those people. saw a man they see named paul going all those. who witnessed documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera.

and monday pointed on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to form dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country haven't truly been able to escape the lure. of the carcass finisher.

hello i'm sue tyson in london with the top stories on al-jazeera israel's defense minister has rejected international calls for an investigation into the killing of sixteen palestinians during a land today protests on the gaza border i believe him and says the troops acted appropriately firing only at palestinian protesters who pose.