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[01] Turkish FM says UN peace plan could be negotiated

[01] Turkish FM says UN peace plan could be negotiated

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Turkish FM says UN peace plan could be negotiated

By Apostolis Zoupaniotis

New York, Nov 24 (CNA) Turkeys newly appointed Foreign Minister, Yasar Yakis, who met in New York with Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash to discuss UN Secretary-Generals plan for a comprehensive settlement, said that the plan ''could be negotiated''.

Yakis' meeting with Denktash lasted one hour and Turkish FM told reporters that he visited Denktash to convey to him the wishes of Turkish Government for an early recovery as well as ''to convey to him the impression we got from our contacts in the European capitals and to exchange views on the plan submitted by Kofi Anan''.

''Our assessment coincide with that of Denktash and we believe that we will work on it and we will achieve something concrete and constructive'' Yakis said.

Asked by CNA, whether the Turkish Government accepts the UN peace plan as a basis for negotiation, Turkish FM said that ''the plan could be negotiated''.

''Accepting it as a basis for negotiations means one thing in the diplomatic and legal jargon, but we believe that the way of negotiation is open. At least we do not reject the negotiations'', he said.

Yakis will have a new meeting with Denktash today and then he is scheduled to depart for the Portuguese capital to meet there with Turkeys leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Recep Tayyip Erdogan who is visiting Lisbon.

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