The Turkish side is at fault for the impasse at Cyprus talks in Mont Pelerin, 70 per cent of respondents in poll conducted by IMR/University of Nicosia have said on Saturday.
The poll conducted for Simerini newspaper has shown that only 23 per cent of respondents did not blame the Turkish Cypriot side for the failure of talks.
Ninety-three per cent of the respondents has said that Turkey negatively contributed to the talks. Approximately half (47%) of those polled have said that Greece’s stance did not affect the Cyprus negotiations on the territory issue. Another 38 per cent have said that the talks in Switzerland were positively affected by the Greek government’s stance.
Over half of those polled (86%) have said that they no longer believe a solution can be reached in 2016, while 14 per cent believe a solution can be reached this year.
Seventy-one per cent, however, have said that they do not believe the international community needs to get involved in the process, while 29 per cent have said the involvement is beneficial.
Worse than Annan
Regarding the Annan plan to solve the Cyprus problem in 2004, 57 per cent of those polled had initially said that a new solution would be better.
However, after the failure in Mont Pelerin and President Nicos Anastasiades’ second press conference on the matter 54 per cent said that the new plan for a Cyprus solution would be worse than the Annan plan, with 35 per cent still remaining hopeful it would be better.
The poll conducted for Simerini was conducted on November 24 through phone interviews. IMR/University of Nicosia interviewed a random sample group of 500 men and women aged over 18 in all of Cyprus.
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