Our View: Continuing the all-words-no-action strategy

Ever since his election, President Nikos Christodoulides has followed an unchanging strategy on the Cyprus problem. It is a strategy that is all words and no action, a strategy that has led nowhere – most certainly not to the resumption of talks that is supposedly his main objective.

For as long as the hardline, uncooperative Ersin Tatar was Turkish Cypriot leader, fully supported by Ankara, nobody questioned the president’s ‘words’ strategy, as he skillfully played the communications game...