The General Secretary of the National Unity Party (UBP) Oğuzhan Hasipoğlu has stressed that the Security Council Mechanism established for resolution and peace has turned from being a problem-solving entity to a problem-generating one.

Responding to the written statement regarding the decision of the UN Security Council concerning the Pile-Yiğitler road, Hasipoğlu expressed his reaction and highlighted that they will continue the struggle for sovereignty together with motherland Türkiye.

“The struggle we will engage in for the Pile road will not only establish the right of our citizens to transportation but will also provide us with a roadmap for a fair and justice-based solution, both for ourselves and for the world,” he said.

Evaluating the UN Security Council’s decision regarding the Pile-Yiğitler road project in a written statement, the UBP’s General Secretary Oğuzhan Hasipoğlu said that the UN Security Council has once again compromised its neutrality in favour of the Greek Cypriot side by issuing an unjust statement on the road project, which was initiated solely for humanitarian purposes.

Reminding that the UN Peacekeeping Force has remained silent on various violations in the past by the Greek Cypriot side side in the buffer zone, including road constructions, Hasipoğlu pointed out that the negotiations conducted by the TRNC Foreign Ministry had until now remained inconclusive.

“UNFICYP, which was stationed in Cyprus with Resolution 186, has been on our island for 59 years. This period has almost turned into a status quo, and the attempts they have made to obstruct Pile as well as their efforts to grant themselves a sense of “sovereignty” in the buffer zone have turned into an understanding. Throughout this time, they have closed their eyes to certain developments on the island and have made us question the decisions of the UN Security Council,” he said.

Hasipoğlu argued that the Security Council Mechanism established for resolution and peace had turned from being a problem-solving entity to a problem-generating one.

He reminded that numerous reports by previous UN Secretary General’s on the looting of Turkish Cypriot villages and atrocities against Turkish Cypriots as well as the fact that the Greek Cypriot side did not want a solution and that the embargoes should be lifted had bore witness to history.

“Why have these reports not been converted into Security Council Resolutions? They have not been converted because the Security Council is built on its own interests and has become an entity that cannot produce solutions or dispense justice,” he added.

Hasipoğlu said that the UN Security Council decision regarding Pile was another example of this mentality.

“It has once again been revealed through this Security Council decision that the UN Peacekeeping Force, which is funded by almost half of its budget by the Greek Cypriot administration and Greece, is far from demonstrating a neutral attitude toward the parties on the island and instead assumes the role of spokesperson for only one side,” he said.