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[askimwos]

To those that would politicize the International Conference, BUTT OUT!
The issue is a humantarian one and within the spirit of International Search and Rescue, politics has no place.
I was honoured to attend and share experiences within the family of International Civil Defenders during this International Conference.
Rod Jarvis Senior International Rescue Officer British Civil Defence

Rod, has it ever crossed your mind that the conference was not organised in the first place for humanitarian reasons and that in fact it was another attempt by an illegal regime to promote some sort of back door recognition?

I am sure that this was not your intention and that you have never viewed this conference from this angle. However, this conference has been exploited by the turkish and TC press in order to promote some sort of recognition for their illeagal state. Really, do you know of any other place in the world where a conference would have made front page titles? I guess not!

[shahmaran]

And where did you pull that one out from askimwos?

No really im curious...

[zan]

To those that would politicize the International Conference, BUTT OUT!
The issue is a humantarian one and within the spirit of International Search and Rescue, politics has no place.
I was honoured to attend and share experiences within the family of International Civil Defenders during this International Conference.
Rod Jarvis Senior International Rescue Officer British Civil Defence

Rod, has it ever crossed your mind that the conference was not organised in the first place for humanitarian reasons and that in fact it was another attempt by an illegal regime to promote some sort of back door recognition?

I am sure that this was not your intention and that you have never viewed this conference from this angle. However, this conference has been exploited by the turkish and TC press in order to promote some sort of recognition for their illeagal state. Really, do you know of any other place in the world where a conference would have made front page titles? I guess not!

That is because no where else in the world would an unscrupulous RoC demand that rescue workers not be given the credit they deserve. That is what made front-page news not the meeting it self. Would you prefer it that I stop telling people I am a Turkish Cypriot and rather a Muslim Cypriot. I suppose you would.

[askimwos]

To those that would politicize the International Conference, BUTT OUT!
The issue is a humantarian one and within the spirit of International Search and Rescue, politics has no place.
I was honoured to attend and share experiences within the family of International Civil Defenders during this International Conference.
Rod Jarvis Senior International Rescue Officer British Civil Defence

Rod, has it ever crossed your mind that the conference was not organised in the first place for humanitarian reasons and that in fact it was another attempt by an illegal regime to promote some sort of back door recognition?

I am sure that this was not your intention and that you have never viewed this conference from this angle. However, this conference has been exploited by the turkish and TC press in order to promote some sort of recognition for their illeagal state. Really, do you know of any other place in the world where a conference would have made front page titles? I guess not!

That is because no where else in the world would an unscrupulous RoC demand that rescue workers not be given the credit they deserve. That is what made front-page news not the meeting it self. Would you prefer it that I stop telling people I am a Turkish Cypriot and rather a Muslim Cypriot. I suppose you would.

Give us a break zan and for once stop seeing ghosts where there aren't any. The conferece was all over the newspapers both before and after the conference. What those newspapers failed to do though was to write even a single word about the content of the conference. What does that tell you?

As for your comment about the the unscrupulous RoC, let me remind you that there is also no other place in the world where a country is invated, thousands killed, 1/3 of the population refugees made , an illegal state declared and after all these the invator complains that the pseudo is not being recognised by the world. End of story!

[zan]

To those that would politicize the International Conference, BUTT OUT!
The issue is a humantarian one and within the spirit of International Search and Rescue, politics has no place.
I was honoured to attend and share experiences within the family of International Civil Defenders during this International Conference.
Rod Jarvis Senior International Rescue Officer British Civil Defence

Rod, has it ever crossed your mind that the conference was not organised in the first place for humanitarian reasons and that in fact it was another attempt by an illegal regime to promote some sort of back door recognition?

I am sure that this was not your intention and that you have never viewed this conference from this angle. However, this conference has been exploited by the turkish and TC press in order to promote some sort of recognition for their illeagal state. Really, do you know of any other place in the world where a conference would have made front page titles? I guess not!

That is because no where else in the world would an unscrupulous RoC demand that rescue workers not be given the credit they deserve. That is what made front-page news not the meeting it self. Would you prefer it that I stop telling people I am a Turkish Cypriot and rather a Muslim Cypriot. I suppose you would.

Give us a break zan and for once stop seeing ghosts where there aren't any. The conferece was all over the newspapers both before and after the conference. What those newspapers failed to do though was to write even a single word about the content of the conference. What does that tell you?

As for your comment about the the unscrupulous RoC, let me remind you that there is also no other place in the world where a country is invated, thousands killed, 1/3 of the population refugees made , an illegal state declared and after all these the invator complains that the pseudo is not being recognised by the world. End of story!

Did the RoC stop these people recieving a plaque and a letter or not?

[shahmaran]

What about Israel askimwos?

[askimwos]

What about Israel askimwos?

I wouldn't go that far as the two cases are not exactly equal. However, if you want to associate Turkey's actions to those of Israel against the Palestenians be my guest. Both used settlers to change demographics, both made thousand of people refugees and both continue to occupy territories by force and military might.

[shahmaran]

But one is internationally VERY recognized...

So do you not aggree that Israel should exist?

[askimwos]

As I said the two cases are not really equal. I will refrain from moving the discussion to the middle-east problem.
You may well do some reading yourself on the issue and I am sure you will soon realise that there was no officially independent and recognised palestinian state at the time the Israeli state was recognised.

[Murataga]

@Tunnel Rat:

To those that would politicize the International Conference, BUTT OUT!
The issue is a humantarian one and within the spirit of International Search and Rescue, politics has no place.
I was honoured to attend and share experiences within the family of International Civil Defenders during this International Conference.
Rod Jarvis Senior International Rescue Officer British Civil Defence

I applause you Rod and thank you. Don`t mind the provocative posts by the GCs. They would call it propaganda even if it was their life we were saving in an emergency situation as brought up in this international gathering.