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Girne Mayor Nidai Güngördü made a visit to Girne Open Market before the 30th of August Victory and Feast of the Sacrifice (Kurban Bayram) celebrations and chatted with the citizens and tradespeople.
Mayor Güngördü wished that future festivals will bring happiness, peace, health and success to all and distributed sweets as is the custom to all those he met.
President Akıncı received Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and Responsible for Cyprus Affairs Recep Akdağ yesterday (28th August). During the meeting, he said that it has become clear that an open-ended process will not lead us to a solution. He also said that the 1960 agreement survived for three years, but that the Enosis [union with Greece] aspirations of Greek Cypriots brought separation and conflict to the island.
Minister of Economy and Energy Sunat Atun has stated that works within the framework of energy cooperation agreement with Turkey to lay electricity pipes undersea from Turkey to the TRNC are almost complete. Atun said that the project is due to be concluded in two to two and a half years.
Speaking to the Diyalog newspaper, former TRNC President Derviş Eroğlu said that the party which always left the negotiating table and refused to sign agreements throughout the course of the Cyprus negotiations had consistently been the Greek Cypriot side, and that this should be explained to the world.
