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The new President of the Council of Europe admitted this week that "consultations'' are continuing at the ministerial level over the implementation of the judgement of the CoE Human Rights Court in the case of Kyrenia refugee Titinal Loizidou. 

"This is a very delicate issue but whatever is decided cannot contradict the Court's judgement which is not negotiable,'' Gerard Philip of Luxembourg told The Cyprus Weekly in an exclusive interview yesterday.

"These consultations do not amount to negotiations over the judgement,'' he stressed. 

Philip however admitted that as the new President of the CoE Committee of Ministers he had decided to postpone consideration of the Loizidou case during this month's meeting of the committee until next month, "in view of the consultations'' that are going on. 

Informed sources told The Cyprus Weekly that there is mounting pressure from certain friends of Turkey to circumvent the Court's judgement. This recognized Loizidou's right to enjoy her property in the occupied north and ordered Turkey to compensate her for the loss of use of her property. 

The Court also ruled that the breakaway statelet is illegal and is nothing more than a subsidiary administration of Turkey, the occupying power.

Turkey has been refusing to implement the Court's judgement and \plain\f2\fs22\cf1\b\i has been trying to get around it through a series of proposals that would in effect negate it. 

The CoE Council of Ministers, which is a political, and not a legal body, has been tolerating this situation for over a year and has been refusing to take any action to force Turkey to impmenent the judgment.

'"The Court has the last word, the Comkmittee of Ministers is competent only for the execution of the Court's judgment,'' Philip stressed nevertheless. 

But he gave no indication of when the Committee might decide to force Turkey to comply with the judgement. Turkey's continuing refusal to do so may eventually result in its expulsion from the CoE. 

This is belieed to be the reason for the intense political behind the scenes discussions. Turkey's friends are anxious to avert such a development and keep postponing taking any action on the issue."