For six many years of undivided and commendable contribution of the Nationwide Guard within the battle to defend the liberty and territorial integrity of our nation and to strengthen the sensation of safety, which promotes the well-being of our residents, mentioned the Minister of Protection Vassilis Palmas, talking on Tuesday night from a part of the President of the Republic on the anniversary occasion organized by the Affiliation of Retired Officers of the Cyprus Military, on the event of the completion of 60 years for the reason that institution of the Nationwide Guard.
In his greeting, the Minister of Protection gave an intensive overview of the contribution of the Greek Military to the homeland since June 1964, when the Parliament accepted the invoice for the institution of the Greek Military, to the occasions of August 1964 and the battles of Tellyria, the Turkish invasion of 1974 , the place “regardless of very vital hardships and shortages in tools, supplies and means, the lads of the Nationwide Guard…unsupported normally, fought valiantly towards Attila's clearly superior forces, providing their lives as a sacrifice on its altar freedom of our nation” but in addition the years of reconstruction after 1974 till as we speak.
At the moment, because the Minister of Protection identified, sixty years after the institution of the pressure and with the Turkish occupation nonetheless in place, but in addition with the emergence of recent uneven threats, the Nationwide Guard has assumed a multifaceted position with the challenges to which it’s known as to answer be quite a bit.
“We should study the teachings of sacrifice and proceed to stroll the trail our heroes have carved out. Drawing on the message of their sacrifice, we pay our respects to their venerable figures and state unequivocally that with the identical religion and the identical willpower we are going to proceed to say the achievement of our highest nationwide objectives” added the Minister of Protection in conclusion.
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