TheTurkishRepublicofNorthernCyprus is always in favor of -- in Cyprus we believe that there is a lot of opportunity to reach an agreement on theCyprus issue and this is an area which we continue to focus on.
Turkish ports and airports remain closed to Cypriot traffic and Turkey is the only country to recognise the self-declared TurkishRepublicofNorthernCyprus, in a dispute stretching back to the 1970s.