WRITTEN QUESTION E-3621/00 by Stavros Xarchakos (PPE-DE) to the Council. Turkish violations of Cypriot airspace.
Date: 2000-11-22
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: Cyprus, Türkiye, air space, establishment of peace, military occupation, settlement of disputes

C 235 E/8

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

21.8.2001

(2001/C 235 E/009)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3621/00

by Stavros Xarchakos (PPE-DE) to the Council

(22 November 2000)

Subject: Turkish violations of Cypriot airspace

On 22 October 2000 two Turkish F4 aircraft entered Cypriot airspace and flew along its western coastline
near the town of Paphos. This a regular tactic of the Turkish forces of occupation and comes in addition to
the recent instance of the seizure of the neutral zone in the Strovilia area, to which the European Union(cid:146)s
response was confined to admonitions addressed to the aggressor. Rauf Denktash, the representative of the
occupation regime in Cyprus, has also spoken on the violation of Cypriot airspace, telling journalists,
before his meeting with the UN representative, Mr Alvaro de Soto, on 22 October, that the location of the
Turkish aircraft by the Cyprus air defence system was an act of war.

What is the Council(cid:146)s view on the Turkish regime(cid:146)s actions against Cyprus, a country with which the EU is
conducting accession talks, and on the remarks of Mr Denktash, the representative of the Turkish Cypriots,
a provocation to the legal authorities in a country, 37 % of the territory of which has been subjected to
a barbarous 26-year occupation designed to incorporate occupied Cyprus into Turkey and to obliterate all
traces of the European cultural heritage?

(2001/C 235 E/010)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3767/00

by Emmanouil Bakopoulos (GUE/NGL) to the Council

(1 December 2000)

Subject: Settlement of the Cyprus question

The declaration of 31 October 2000 by the Presidency of the Council on the Cyprus question supports the
efforts of the UN Secretary-General to find a comprehensive, just and lasting settlement, consistent with
the relevant Security Council resolutions, and calls on the two communities to conduct substantive talks
and to contribute actively to resolving the problem. However, given that on 11 November 2000 the
Turkish Prime Minister, Mr Bulent Ecevit, made a scathing attack on the non-paper produced by the UN
Secretary-General, and given that there are plans to create a federation on the island, what is the Council(cid:146)s
current position towards the new refusal by Turkey to find a solution to the Cyprus question?

(2001/C 235 E/011)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3768/00

by Emmanouil Bakopoulos (GUE/NGL) to the Council

(1 December 2000)

Subject: Statement by Mr Denktash

On 20 November 2000, the fifth round of negotiations to solve the Cyprus question came to an end, once
more without bearing fruit. To be precise, Mr Denktash described the UN(cid:146)s position on the issue as
unacceptable. In view of this statement, and his statement in the German newspaper Der Spiegel, on
6 November 2000, that there will be a bloody war if Cyprus joins the European Union, how does the
Council intend to respond to these provocative statements by Mr Denktash?