Confidence-building measures no substitute for Cyprus solution, says president

Confidence-building measures do not “replace the solution to the Cyprus problem” , President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday.

He was speaking at an event held to commemorate the 51st anniversary of the coup d’état which overthrew the government led by Archbishop Makarios III in 1974, before leaving Cyprus to travel to New York for this week’s enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem.

“We know our goals; we know our aspirations.