House President Annita Demetriou on Thursday expressed disappointment over the lack of progress achieved at Wednesday’s tripartite meeting on the Cyprus problem, while the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu said negotiations cannot solve the Cyprus problem. Ertugruloglu struck a markedly different tone, telling Kibris Postasi TV that “the Cyprus problem cannot be solved by negotiating with the Greek Cypriot administration”. “I have no intention of pursuing cheap politics by blaming the Greek Cypriot administration. The Greek Cypriots are doing exactly what they need to do according to their own politics and mission. These policies harm the Turkish Cypriots, and we therefore have the right to complain, but the Greek Cypriots are fulfilling the requirements of being a state.