Turkey denied Cyprus the right to participate in the UN Annual Climate Change Conference

Turkey, arsenic seat of the United Nations‘ yearly climate alteration league (COP31), has refused the information of the Republic of Cyprus successful the conference, which took spot astatine the planetary body’s office connected March 27, reports AP-MPA.

The Republic of Cyprus was denied a spot successful the country of the meeting, which was chaired by Turkey’s Environment and Urban Planning Minister Murat Kurum.

The EU condemned the Republic of Cyprus’ exclusion from a consequent UN gathering to commemorate World Zero Waste Day.

Representing besides its subordinate states, it expressed “serious concern” astir this lawsuit and recalled that “all UN subordinate states bask adjacent designation and information successful UN processes successful accordance with the rule of sovereign equality and the tone of afloat inclusion” that governs the UN.

In response, Turkey defended its stance, citing its longstanding argumentation of non-recognition of the Republic of Cyprus.

Turkey’s spokeswoman “regretted the EU’s off-topic stance,” stressing that “over clip the EU has failed to support a balanced stance connected the Cyprus contented since the Greek Cypriots’ introduction [into the Union], contempt the Greek Cypriots’ overwhelming rejection of the UN’s broad colony program [i.e. Annan plan].”

He recalled that the gathering connected COP31 “was not taxable to a UN mandate and truthful it was astatine the discretion of the organizer to circulate invitations. All subordinate states recognized by Turkey were invited and we convey them for their participation.”