Nicosia to reject Turkish natural gas proposal

A proposal by Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci for a committee that would jointly administer natural gas affairs is expected to be rejected by the government and party leaders in Cyprus when they meet on Tuesday.
President Nicos Anastasiades received the proposal through the UN and shortly after Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu expressed the view that until Greek Cypriots adopt the proposals set out by Akinci, Turkey would continue its drilling "with determination and without change."
According to an official statement Anastasiades received over the weekend in Limassol the head of the office of the Special Representative of the UN in Cyprus, Sergiy Illarionov, who presented Akinci's proposal to the president.
Anastasiades called a meeting of the National Council for July 16 to inform political leaders on the details of the proposal.
Sources say the...