Disy leader Annita Demetriou on Saturday said the international community “can never accept” a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem.

Speaking at the European People’s Party’s (EPP) conference in Berlin, she said the pan-European party to which she belongs will also never accept such a solution.

She added that she had requested from other EPP members “practical support for a united and free Cyprus” and “for a Europe which can unfold all its potential”.

“Europe must find its stride, lead, and bring results for its citizens, to shape and redesign its policy. Europe needs a strategy,” she said.

Back in November, she had said he Greek Cypriot side is “only asking for what the resolutions contain” in its efforts to resolve the Cyprus problem.

The resolutions to which she was referring are the various United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding the Cyprus problem, which stipulate that the island be united into a bizonal, bicommunal federal state with political equality between the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities.

To this end, she called for negotiations to resolve the Cyprus problem to be restarted, “with the aim of a just and sustainable solution”.

Such a solution, she said, “constitutes the necessary basis for security, peace, and stability”, which are “necessary conditions for development and prosperity”.

“No matter how many reforms you make, no matter how many innovations you implement, when you do not have security, peace, or the rule of law, how will you be able to achieve the requisite results?” she asked.

She also expressed optimism regarding the mooted enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem involving Greece and Turkey, saying it may lead to “further progress” and “a next step”.