ALL issues relating to the Cyprus problem will be on the agenda of talks that President Glafcos Clerides will hold in Athens with Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis tomorrow.
“At the meeting, all parameters and all aspects of the Cyprus question will be covered. We shall discuss various scenarios that we may have to deal with in the future,” Government Spokesman Michalis Papapetrou said yesterday.
This is the first time the President is going to Athens for consultations with Simitis since the start of direct talks in mid January.
Clerides will also meet his Greek counterpart Costis Stephanopoulos, before having talks in the evening with Simitis, then taking part in a working dinner hosted by the Greek premier.
The President will also visit Archbishop Chrysostomos, who is in hospital in Athens recuperating from injuries he sustained in a fall last month.
Papapetrou said the President may also have other meetings with the Greek political leadership. Clerides, who will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Yiannakis Cassoulides and other aides, returns home Thursday.
Commenting on the ongoing talks yesterday, Papapetrou said UN effort to solve the Cyprus question and the country’s accession course towards European Union membership were two different things.
“The government does not associate separate issues. What we have before us at present is hard work until the end of June to reach an agreement on the core issues that make up the Cyprus problem (governance, security, territory and property),” Papapetrou said.
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