The foreign Ministry condemned the conflict in Cyprus and Greece
Deputy foreign Minister of Russia Alexei Meshkov October 9, took the special representative of the President of Cyprus SOTOS of Zacheus. The foreign Ministry considers unacceptable unilateral actions affecting the exclusive financial zone this power.
"They exchanged views on the situation in Cyprus settlement, including the normalization of the situation around the exclusive financial zone of the island. Unilateral actions, presentation of force is allowed, is fraught with bias in worse position not only in Cypriot Affairs, but also in the Eastern Mediterranean region", - informs the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia on the results of the meeting on the official website.
Earlier, Turkish foreign Ministry summoned the Ambassador of Greece Kyriakos of Loukakis in the future exacerbation of relations between the 2 countries in consequence of the researches of oil and gas fields on the shelf of Cyprus. His call is associated with a disagreement in consequence of the Cyprus offshore drilling.
Turkey expects from Greece as the country of the guarantor on the Cyprus regulation, efforts to restore interrupted in consequence of these disagreements dialogue between the Greek and Turkish communities of Cyprus. The day before, Ankara announced that on request of Northern Cyprus starts seismic survey in the area of the shelf, where are already drilling Italian and South Korean firms.
The President of Cyprus Nikos Anastasiadis said on 7 October for the withdrawal from negotiations on a Cyprus settlement after Turkey sent to the shores of Cyprus research vessel and warships. On the same day, the Turkish Ambassador to Greece, was handed a note, which tells us that "the actions of Turkey in the region create tension". Greece and Cyprus accused Turkey of violating the sovereign rights of the island nation on the shelf, at that time, as Ankara believes that the shelf is owned equally by the Greek and Turkish communities of the island.