The deputy migration ministry and the justice ministry are working together to decide the next steps on the barbed wire fencing along the Green line, it emerged on Wednesday.

Speaking to CyBC, Deputy Minister Nicholas Ioannides said: “The aim is to give a detailed recommendation to the President of the Republic on what is to come.”

He added that no decision will be taken, but a recommendation will be made to the president.

According to Ioannides, the political evaluation refers to an issue that does create political problems on our side, but the operational evaluation part still falls short.

That is why the deputy ministry is in consultation with the justice ministry, so that the competent security body, the police, can evaluate the whole situation and give its own recommendations on the fencing.

Apart from this, Ioannides was also asked about the issue of the migrants still inside the buffer zone, answering that there is no development, as he reiterated that the Republic of Cyprus will not accept the Green Line becoming a pathway for migrants.

In this regard, the deputy ministry is still in dialogue with the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Unficyp, to find a solution to the problem in the first stage.

“To solve this problem and then draw up a longer-term plan for the future”, Ioannides said.

He concluded that it is Turkey’s military occupation of Cyprus that makes the situation with the Green Line status peculiar and extremely complicated.