Greece and Cyprus started a powerful operation, in order to try and prevent the meeting of the Cyprian Turk leader Mehmed Ali Talat with the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. As grreporter.info already informed you, at the end of next week Mehmed Ali Talat will leave on an official visit in the US to meet UN’s General Secretary Ban ki-Moon, Hillary Clinton and the National Security Advisor in the White House James Jones. Sources claim that the visit is asked for as a personal favor by the Turkish Prime Minister Redjep Taip Erdogan during the visit of the first US diplomat in Ankara.

Athens and Nicosia were very annoyed because of the possibility that Mehmed Ali Talat might visit the State Department. Cyprian president Dimitris Hristofias publicly admitted that his country if working actively but undercover and quietly, in order to try stop such a meeting form happening, especially when it comes in a moment when the US diplomacy is not showing any interest to meet any of the Cyprian Greeks.

As it is already known, during his pre-election campaign Barack Obama was openly flirting with the Greek Americans by promising to support their position regarding the Cyprian problem. Now, as it seems, the US administration has acknowledged what kind of partner Turkey can be when it comes to Washington’s politics with Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan but also with the Middle East as a whole. Ankara’s influence should not be overlooked even in some former Soviet Republics.

The Greek Americans did not take that news very well and they sent an open letter to the US president Barack Obama and the vice-president Joe Baiden, in which they are calling for them to interfere and stop those meetings, which are “the continuation of Bush’s dogma, regarding the Cyprian problem and are in complete contradiction with our stand points.” The letter also sends a threat that of the scheduled meetings with Talat take place, they will cause such problems, which will need years to be solved. Also, the letter claims that Turkey has more soldiers in Northern Cyprus than America in Afghanistan.

The Greek archbishop in the US Dimitrios will also use all of his power to try and convince the US administration not to meet Mehmed Ali Talat. On Monday, the archbishop will meet Hillary Clinton and on Wednesday Barack Obama.