Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (17.11.13) issue the following statement regarding the passing of the former President of the Republic of Cyprus, Glafcos Clerides.

“We are saddened by the news of the passing of Glafcos Clerides, a lawyer and politician who assumed a number of important positions at critical times, starting with the phase of establishment of the partnership State in Cyprus 1960, who served the Greek Cypriot community that he has led for several years.

It is the more regrettable that Glafcos Clerides, who, together with the TRNC’s Founding President, the late Rauf Denktas, assumed an important role in the negotiation processes since 1968 aiming at solving the Cyprus issue, did not live to see the achievement of a lasting comprehensive settlement on the island after the coming to naught of the UN Comprehensive Settlement Plan, also known as the Annan Plan – to the negotiations of a significant portion of which he had himself contributed – due to the Greek Cypriot side’s rejection in referendum of the Plan.”