EC underlines importance of resumption of UN procedure for Cyprus

Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn has said the Commission underlines the significance in the resumption of the procedure which will promptly lead to complete negotiations under UN auspices to achieve an overall settlement and is ready to help the UN achieve this aim.
The Commissioner was replying to a question by Cypriot Euro MP Marios Matsakis in response to Turkey’s non-compliance to the decision of the European Court of May 2001 which ruled that Turkey is guilty for a wide range of mass, systematic and continued violations of human rights in Cyprus.
Rehn said that the compliance of a signatory state to the European Convention of Human Rights with a decision of the European Court of Human Rights is monitored by the Council of Ministers which is the relevant EU institution.
He said that fundamental issues which are pending are those such as missing persons’ issue and the property issue whereby with the draft resolution of the Council of Ministers of 3-4 April 2007, Turkey was called to give immediate information on the issue.
Rehn said that these issues make necessary the need for a comprehensive solution to the Cyprus problem which will lead to the reunification of the island. The Commission, he added, underlines the significance of the resumption of the procedure which will promptly lead to complete negotiations under UN auspices for an overall settlement and is ready to help the UN achieve this goal.