It’s a high precedence to safeguard and strengthen the standing of the Republic of Cyprus, each domestically and internationally, mentioned the President of the Republic, Nikos Christodoulidis, talking on the anniversary occasion on the event of the seventy fifth anniversary of the Union Referendum 1950, organized on Wednesday night time within the Holy Archdiocese, in Nicosia, by the Council Historic Memorial Wrestle EOKA 1955-59 (S.I.M.A.E.), the Associations of Fighters EOKA 1955-59 and the Basis of Liberation Wrestle EOKA 1955-59.
“At a time when our nation wants us, we should all, with no matter ideological or different background, come collectively and cooperate. To take key selections, all the time in relation to and making an allowance for worldwide circumstances and developments”, he underlined.
“With the weapon that the EOKA wrestle provided us, the Republic of Cyprus, an important factor now we have, but additionally our standing as a member state of the European Union, we are able to, collectively, coordinated and in a spirit of unity, with one voice, to assert all that we’re entitled to, to barter correctly and to reap the benefits of alternatives. In any case, the liberation and reunification of our nation is a typical objective”, he emphasised.
“Towards the background of the developments in our geographical space, which is of specific geostrategic significance, and within the anarchic worldwide scene, wherein we’re referred to as to maneuver, as a small nation beneath occupation, we’re making each effort, using all obtainable energy elements, inside and exterior, to to realize our primary objective, our highest precedence, which is the liberation and reunification of our nation”, identified the President of the Republic.
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Stating that he’s conscious of the difficulties, the obstacles, the challenges, President Christodoulidis mentioned that “now we have a full understanding of the correlation of forces and, after all, we’re lifelike sufficient to not get carried away”. Nevertheless, as he mentioned, “exactly as a result of we’re realists, pragmatists, we constantly pursue a technique primarily based on the Thucydian understanding of worldwide relations and the significance of energy elements and synergies with different powers in reaching our fundamental objective.”
On this very context, he defined, “we reap the benefits of the European standing of the Republic of Cyprus, we strengthen the community of synergies we preserve with third international locations, we strengthen our political and diplomatic footprint with actions and never simply phrases and we broaden our nation's energy elements” .
Referring to this 12 months's seventieth anniversary of the start of EOKA's wrestle, the President of the Republic emphasised the necessity and obligation “to talk to our kids and the brand new technology of our nation about EOKA, concerning the struggles and sacrifices of all those that gave their lives for a greater Cyprus, for the Republic of Cyprus now we have right this moment”. As he mentioned, “advantage and braveness require profound information. And information, initially, of your self, that’s, of your actual Historical past”.
One thing like this, he mentioned, “by no means works negatively in direction of the efforts to resolve the Cyprus situation, because the viability of a possible answer goes largely by means of the respect of every particular person's historic identification and definitely not by means of self-annihilation”.
“Even when the aim and imaginative and prescient of the 1950 Referendum for “union and solely union” didn’t succeed, even when the struggles of the Greek Cypriots had the only motive and function of exercising the best to self-determination and union with Greece, nonetheless , we should all admit that that pure wrestle led to the Republic of Cyprus, which is undoubtedly our most vital achievement on this the place and safeguarding and strengthening its standing, each domestically and internationally, is a high precedence”, President Christodoulidis underlined.
“United, subsequently, we proceed to vary our homeland, to make Cyprus a spot of peace, safety, prosperity and progress. For everybody and with out exclusions”, he mentioned.
President Christodoulidis mentioned that this 12 months's occasion for the anniversary of the Union Referendum of 1950 follows and coincides with different vital anniversaries in our trendy historical past, that are the start of the EOKA Liberation Wrestle, the Turkish invasion of 1974, the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the Greek Revolution, talking of “a traditionally and nationally charged interval, with feelings, reminiscences, reflections, reflections, discussions, tributes, investigations and revelations”.
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All of the occasions, he continued, “represent separate chapters of our historical past, are not directly or straight linked to one another and represent, amongst different issues, a information for the examine and interpretation of latest historic developments, in addition to setting a course for coping with right this moment's challenges.”
Finishing up a historic assessment of the occasions that preceded the holding of the Union Referendum, the President of the Republic, in his capability as a historian and politician, famous that the Referendum of 1950 should be interpreted inside its historic context. “As a historic occasion with semiological and important significance, it’s a level of reference, unlocks a lot that adopted and helps essentially the most in understanding the next political and historic growth of Cyprus”, he defined.
“The references, furthermore, and the ramifications of the 1950 Referendum are limitless and staggering. The Greekness of Cyprus and the will of its individuals was uncovered like by no means earlier than, and nobody, nobody can query or deny the spontaneous enthusiasm and pallaicity that characterised it”, he emphasised.
The President of the Republic identified that the Pallaic participation within the Referendum was the results of the partnership, collaboration and cooperation of all political our bodies on the time, the Nationwide Authorities and AKEL. “The settlement of the Proper and the Left introduced not solely unity but additionally effectivity. The voice of Cyprus for self-determination and Union with Greece was frequent, sturdy and deafening”, he added.
As he mentioned, “the Chilly Warfare, the ideological variations and different info that aren’t right here to be analyzed, could have led to the break up of Ethnarchy and AKEL after the Referendum with the separate Embassies, however it’s an undeniable fact and level of reference that universality and the potential of the 1950 referendum consequence'.
As well as, the President mentioned that he firmly believes within the energy of unity and its effectiveness, whereas indicating that “by means of such modest ceremonies we should not solely honor historic occasions but additionally study from the messages that emerge by means of such vital historic developments.”
In his greeting, the Archbishop of Cyprus George mentioned that “in entrance of the nice anniversaries of our historical past we should all the time stand with duty and awe, to study from them classes, the trail of life and the route of salvation”.
“Seventy-five years since that brave motion of our individuals, we gratefully flip our minds to the protagonists of that nice referendum, Archbishop Makarios II, the Metropolitans of Paphos Kleopas, Kitios Makarios and Kyrenias Kyprianos and the Bishop of Salaminos Gennadios. And if the occasions have modified, and if the Junta of Athens and EOKA B' put tombstones on the matter of the Union, Historical past just isn’t written off”, he burdened.
The important which means of this occasion, mentioned the Archbishop, “consists in reviving inside us and round us that enthusiastic environment. In order that we are able to struggle and hope. To endure our nice and horrible trial. Let's struggle for our justice and rights and hope for the ultimate justice”, he concluded.
In his greeting, the President of S.I.M.A.E., Andreas Maimaridis, mentioned that “the smug conquerors didn’t perceive the ability given to our individuals by their refusal to simply accept the implementation of the self-determination of the peoples and different colonized international locations excluding solely Cyprus”.
“This insult to the Cypriot individuals led to the Union Referendum which gilded and galvanized our bodies and souls and led to the armed revolution of EOKA with Makarios and Digenis”, he mentioned. “Blessed are the initiators and exponents, on the given second, of the readiness of Cypriot Hellenism for wholehearted participation within the impending revolution. Historical past has labeled them within the space of the Evangelists, the Philiki Etairia, the ever-present Hellenism”, he concluded.
The occasion, which ended with the Nationwide Anthem, was attended by – amongst others – the Speaker of the Parliament, Annita Dimitriou, the Deputy Minister of Tradition, Vasiliki Kassianidou, and the Ambassador of Greece, Ioannis Papameletiou.
