June is a vital month, taking into consideration the preparation, by the private envoy of the UN Secretary Common, of the related report, President Christodoulidis mentioned on Friday, in a greeting to the “50 years of Turkish invasion and occupation” Photographic Exhibition organized by the Workplace of Press and Data on the Previous Municipal Corridor of Nicosia.
The President mentioned that “we hope for constructive developments, we’re knowledgeable about a number of issues which might be occurring particularly from some international locations that present a particular curiosity within the route of resuming the talks and I hope that June can be a month that can have constructive developments on this route”.
He mentioned that though half a century has handed because the invasion, the ache is profound and the agony indescribable each time the reminiscence returns to the occasions of 1974 within the invasion and the destruction “which is the unshakable level of reference for each citizen of this place, which 50 years later remains to be, irrespective of how a lot some attempt to downplay it, affected by the traumas attributable to the unspeakable tragedy of the Turkish invasion and the continued occupation”.
“From this historic place, very near the barbed wire of division, I need to repeat that, regardless of the challenges, difficulties and issues we face, we don’t compromise with the occupation, the current state of affairs can’t be the way forward for our homeland “, he mentioned.
The PtD emphasised that we’ve no different alternative however to proceed the trouble to overturn the established order for the liberation and reunification of our nation and we’re working on this route with actions and never phrases, to create the prospects for the resumption of significant negotiations with the purpose of looking for answer of the Cyprus concern, all the time on the idea of the agreed framework and primarily based on European ideas and values.
“We encourage the efforts of the Common Secretary and the efforts of his private envoy. It’s, furthermore, after our personal efforts that this new effort started”, he repeated.
Relating to the exhibition organized by the GTP, he mentioned that the pictures exhibited on this house, in addition to the anniversary brief movie “Operation Museum” are nothing greater than mosaics within the mosaic of our collective reminiscence, for a interval that is still 50 years then, deeply engraved in us.
He talked about that these are genuine paperwork of the time, which report in probably the most graphic means the ache on the faces of tens, a whole bunch, 1000’s of individuals, our compatriots.
He added that these individuals are not unknown, a few of them are nonetheless with us at the moment, they’re our dad and mom, our grandparents, our kinfolk, our neighbors.
“They’re all those that had the incomparable fortitude, will and religion to rise from the ruins of the catastrophe and stroll once more. With a thousand and two deprivations, they rebuilt their lives from scratch, due to their arduous work and patriotism, by no means, ever, forgetting the place they began, with out forgetting their roots. And on behalf of the state, permit me on the event of at the moment's occasion to specific my limitless gratitude to everybody”, he mentioned.
For the movie “Operation Museum”, he mentioned that it’s a surprising account of the large effort to save lots of the displays of the Cyprus Museum throughout the Turkish invasion of 1974 and a tribute to the then Director of the Division of Antiquities and the Cyprus Museum, the late Vasos Karagiorgis, in addition to to the workers of the Museum for his or her effort to save lots of the cultural wealth of our nation.
“Among the many objectives of the movie is to lift consciousness not solely of the Cypriot folks, but in addition of everybody, particularly the brand new technology that didn’t stay the occasions, bringing to mild unseen sides of the historical past of our homeland that fifty years later should not identified”, he mentioned.
The President congratulated the Director of the Press and Data Workplace and the workers for organizing at the moment's occasion in addition to, as he mentioned, for the very methodical work they’re doing, on the event of the twentieth anniversary of our accession and on the event of the fiftieth anniversary of Turkish Invasion.
On the identical time, he thanked the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, the Deputy Ministry of Tradition, political leaders and workers for the assistance they provided on this effort and everybody who labored on the occasion.
“There’s a wealth within the GTP that we should reap the benefits of and we help this effort,” he mentioned.
Director of the GTP Aliki Stylianou mentioned that fifty days earlier than the fiftieth anniversary of the invasion, the GTP is bringing to mild unseen sides of the occasions by way of its archive, by way of a complete of 69 pictures from an exhibition of the Workplace that traveled in 1975 for the aim of enlightenment.
It additionally contains the movie “Operation Museum”, produced by GTP in collaboration with the Deputy Ministry of Tradition. It’s, he mentioned, a surprising account of the trouble to save lots of the displays of the Cyprus Museum throughout the invasion, with the then Director of the Cyprus Museum, Vasos Karagiorgis, because the protagonist.
Cypriot artists' accounts of how they skilled the invasion and the way it affected their subsequent inventive profession are additionally offered. These references, mentioned Ms. Stylianou, had been recorded by way of the productions of movies by the GTP entitled “Artwork within the metropolis”. The exhibition additionally features a collector's version for the anniversary of the invasion and occupation with 110 pictures from the archive of the Common Directorate of Public Safety.
