Hungary welcomes efforts towards reunifying Cyprus

Budapest/Nicosia (MTI) – Hungary welcomes efforts made to reunify Cyprus, Zsolt Németh, the (ruling Fidesz) head of parliament’s foreign affairs committee told MTI on Friday.

If the planned federal state comes about, it could serve as a good example for the coexistence of two nations, cultures and religions, said Németh, who recently participated in a session on Cyprus of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly Standing Committee.

Hungary has long stationed significant forces in Cyprus as part of UN peacekeeping on the divided island, he noted.

Over the past 42 years, never has a resolution to the division come so close as today, he said.

One vital ingredient to current favourable developments is that for the first time the two sides negotiated without any external intervention, Németh added.

The Council of Europe, as the guardian of human rights and the rule of law, can play a role in bringing forth an agreement that fine-tunes the protection of human rights in any future federal state, he said.

Source: MTI