Dânâ takes Cyprus talks to Brussels
Oct 24, 2026 12:17 pm
Ibrar Younas
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PRESIDENTIAL Undersecretary Mehmet Dânâ has held a sequence of high-level conferences in Brussels, elevating Turkish Cypriot isolation, citizenship rights and the Greek Cypriot aspect’s bid to hitch the Schengen space.
The go to adopted his handle to an occasion on the UK Parliament in London on October 21.
Throughout his Brussels contacts, Mr Dânâ met officers from the everlasting representations to the EU of Eire, which holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, in addition to Italy, France and the Netherlands.
He additionally held talks with the pinnacle and members of European Council President António Costa’s cupboard and a member of European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen’s cupboard.
Different conferences concerned cupboard members of European Commissioner for Inner Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner, senior officers accountable for Schengen and inner safety, and officers from the Fee’s Directorate-Basic for Enlargement and Jap Neighbourhood.
Mr Dânâ additionally met a cupboard member of Fee Government Vice-President Raffaele Fitto, whose portfolio covers cohesion and reforms, and officers from the European Exterior Motion Service’s Directorate-Basic for Europe and Central Asia.
Discussions lined the Turkish Cypriot place on the Cyprus problem, the newest developments on confidence-building measures, UN Secretary-Basic António Guterres’s go to to the island and forthcoming contacts by his private envoy, María Ángela Holguín.
Mr Dânâ raised Greek Cypriot actions which the Turkish Cypriot aspect says undermine belief, alongside response letters acquired from the UN Secretary-Basic and the European Fee regarding these actions.
He additionally highlighted the persevering with isolation of Turkish Cypriots and what the Turkish Cypriot aspect describes as violations of the EU citizenship rights of youngsters born to blended marriages.
The Greek Cypriot aspect’s course of in direction of becoming a member of the Schengen space was one other key problem raised throughout the conferences.
