Piratis wrote:Can you show me these resolutions?
I take it that you have not looked into the history of Cyprus and never ventured to read any of the founding treaties that established the Original republic. The main pieces are referred to below:
Zurich and London Accords;
Treaty of Alliance; and
Treaty of Guarantee.
If you want details to why the Original republic was bi-communal, I highly recommend that you read all three and pay particular attention to the Zurich and London agreements.
There are no special privileges or nonsensical items referred to by some on this forum. Clearly, the original republic was established as a shared republic for its indigenous and dominant Turkish and Greek nations.
The Original republic was bicommunal because of the following:
• The executive branch was to be comprised of a Greek elected Greek president and a Turkish elected Turkish vice-president – the Turkish VP had an effective veto over the presidency
• Seven Greek Cypriot ministers would be accompanied by three Turkish Cypriot ministers
• Municipalities would be managed along separate ethnic lines and communities that were comprised of sizeable Turkish and Greek inhabitants would have separate councils
• House of Representatives was to have 35 Greek and 15 Turkish members
• There was to be a 70:30 Turk-Greek split of the bureaucracy, except for the armed forces which would be manned at 60:40 Greek-to-Turk
• The Turks and Greeks would have separate Communal Chambers
If have difficulty finding the actual documentation and I can have look for you as well.
