Rejecting Turkey’s energy proposals is not enough. Cyprus should also be ready with counter-proposals that could contribute to reviving and speeding-up the Cyprus talks
By Dr Charles Ellinas and Andreas Mavroyiannis
With a deal to develop Aphrodite gas under discussion and another likely to follow early next year to develop block 6, Cyprus’ natural gas is receiving renewed attention. Pre-empting agreements, Turkey’s foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, was quick off the mark, proposing in October that Turkish and Greek Cypriots could jointly exploit the island’s gas resources without prior solution to the Cyprus problem, similar to agreement between Lebanon and Israel brokered by the US.
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