Kotzias: Hellenic Republic and Republic of Cyprus will continue united their struggle
Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias called on the entire international community to recall the criminal consequences of the illegal Turkish invasion and the continuing drama of Cyprus.
Kotzias made the statement on the 43rd anniversary of the Turkish invasion in Cyprus on July 20, 1974.
"The Hellenic Republic and the Republic of Cyprus will continue united their titanic struggle for the rights of Hellenism, Cyprus and the Cypriot people as well as for restoring the freedom, sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of the Cypriot state. They will continue their struggle in order to free Cyprus from the Turkish troops, restore the rights of refugees, and allow the Turkish Cypriots to live in a democratic state without the Turkish troops," Kotzias underlined.
"We owe this to the Cypriots and the Greeks as well as all the heroic defenders of Cyprus who faced the forces of the Turkish invader in a tough and unequal confrontation in 1974," the Foreign Minister added.
He pointed out that "today's sad anniversary coincides with a shimmer of hope. Not a hope for the immediate solution to the Cyprus problem, which, unfortunately, the continued Turkish intransigence does not yet make possible, but hope because the international community seems to have realised the self-evident, reflected in the UN resolutions, that reunified Cyprus should be a normal, sovereign and totally independent state."
"In such a state there are no occupying troops or anachronistic elements of the past such as the guarantee role of third countries, which prompted Turkey to invade Cyprus and occupy 37% of its territory," he added.
Δημοφιλείς Ειδήσεις
