PM Alexis Tsipras: 44 years later, we are still seeking a UN-based solution to Cyprus issue
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Greece is not forgetting the invasion of Cyprus and its dead and missing, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Friday, on the 1974 anniversary.
“We do not forget the invasion of Cyprus that resulted in dead and missing people, and led to the illegal occupation of 37% of the island,” Tsipras said in a tweet.
“44 years later we are still demanding a just and viable solution, in the framework of the United Nations Organization resolutions,” he added.
Messages from Voutsis, Kammenos, Kotzias
Political leaders issued statements on Friday commemorating the 1974 invasion of Cyprus.
Among them, Parliament President Nikos Voutsis said that documents relating to the Cyprus issue (the Cyprus File) will be published in a series of volumes, the first four of which will appear in October. The project is a collaboration with the Cyprus parliament, he said, while documents stored in the Greek parliament and discovered recently will be digitized. “Forty-four years have passed since, and the trauma is largely still open,” he said.
Messages were also sent by National Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, who said in a tweet that “we honor the heroes but will not forget the betrayal of the junta of Ioannidis, who is represented today by the extreme right in all of Greece and Cyprus.”
Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias noted that “44 years later, Turkey continues to violate on Cyprus any sense of international law and ignores the decisions of the UN. Cyprus, UN and EU member, remains under the illegal military occupation of another UN member-state.”
Source: ANA-MPA