Mr. David O'Sullivan:

Cyprus is a country I know and love well. My father served there often with the Irish Army and the UN and I spent time there. It is a place for which I have enormous affection but I must admit I do not follow the internal politics in great detail. It is up to each country in its own constitutional setting to decide whether it has definitively reached the conclusion that it cannot ratify an agreement. A vote may be revisited or looked at again. Until such time as the Government of Cyprus formally notifies its EU colleagues that the Republic of Cyprus is unable or unwilling to ratify, the situation remains unchanged. The fact that there has been a vote does not necessarily constitute the final word of the country on that matter. It is for each country to decide at what moment it is in a position to deliver its final verdict, positively or negatively, to the Council of Ministers.