Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Venizelos made the following response to a journalist’s question on the framework for the resolution of the Cyprus issue:
“The negotiating framework is very simple. Everything moves – necessarily – within the framework of the relevant resolutions of the Security Council, of the European community acquis, of a bizonal, bicommunal federation, as was delineated in 1977 by Archbishop and President Makarios.
It is also obvious that we are talking about a solution that must be accepted via the free democratic expression of the Cypriot people, in a direct manner, through a referendum.”
July 1, 2014