On certain issues both communities should make sacrifices. If we insist on our views, and if we do not work to meet at a common point, then a settlement will be very difficult. I do believe that we will solve it. President Clerides further said that from time to time he is calling Denktash and talks with him. I would have been holding meetings with myself.
Communities elect their representatives.
Rauf Denktash represents the Turkish Cypriots. Regarding the forthcoming so-called presidential elections in the occupied area President Clerides said that Denktash will win. Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, during a special TV programme on illegal Bayrak has claimed that during the last week of the third round of talks to be held in New York concrete developments in the Cyprus problem might surface. Denktash further alleged that some foreign diplomats have told him that President Clerides will not refrain from signing an agreement based on the state basis. We will maintain our state.