Cyprus Mail: Lost in Space: Are Proximity Talks a Solution of a Sort?

Nicos Anastasiades took over the helm of Cyprus, after an adventurous and destructive course of 50 years (1963-2013).

So, where is Cyprus today? How do the powerful players of the Cyprus chessboard view two of the pivotal issues, the Cyprus problem and natural gas? Are we hovering somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea, or do we, in reality, sail… lost in space?

For the US, the perennial position expressed by Henry Kissinger in his book “World Order” applies: “America must play a leadership role to preserve world order – not as a moralising global policeman but as a hard-nosed great power…to maintain equilibrium and keep the threat of war within tolerable limits”. So despite the goodwill of Vice-president Joe Biden, Cyprus is in reality a small pawn in the maelstrom of the strategic, political and economic interests of the US.

Europe focuses its attention much more on opening up its gates to Turkey and to the large Turkish market than to human rights in Cyprus. The economy (GDP) of Turkey amounts to US$815 billion compared to the US$16 billion of Cyprus. Furthermore Turkey is a strategic partner of Europe in one of the hotbeds of the world. It should also be remembered that Europe is not on the same page with us on a number of aspects of the Cyprus problem or on hydrocarbons. This is why we are taken aback on many occasions by the decisions in Brussels.

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