Bananiot wrote:I will tell you a story. A true story! Early April 2003 and Denktash is keen to bury the UN plan for a solution. His best bet is Papadopoulos. He sends him a note in which he makes the following proposals:
1. Forget about the Annan Plan and start negotiations on a new base.
2. Begin trading between the two communities.
3. Free movement with minimum fuss.
4. Set up a conciliation committee.
5. Immediate return of Varosha to the RoC if Papadopoulos agrees.
Papadopoulos takes the proposals to the National Council and and dictates the answer. He outright rejects the proposals and accuses Denktash of trying to evade the Annan Plan. We will stick to the Annan Plan, he answers defiantly!
Denktash, upon receiving this response, goes on to implement some of the proposals unilaterally. Thus he makes his move and opens the borders on April 23 2003.
What do we have today?
Papadopoulos sends a letter in response to Moon's urges with proposals. One of the proposals is for the setting up of a conciliation committee. Trade between the two communities takes places and there is free movement on both sides of the divide. Furthermore, he has buried the Annan Plan and is now asking for talks on a new basis.
He has in fact granted all the wishes of Denktash. With one exemption. Varosha is still to be seen with binoculars by the betrayed inhabitats of the fair city.
This is the great leader!
Tassos lashes out over EOKA B claims
By Elias Hazou
AN ANGRY President Tassos Papadopoulos has lashed out at allegations that he consorted with leading cadres of EOKA B, a 1970s right-wing paramilitary organisation linked to the coup that precipitated the Turkish invasion.
The accusations were made by AKEL, until not long ago partners in the coalition under Papadopoulos.
The government camp has rallied to the President’s support, calling on the communists to back up their claims with evidence.
After initial hesitation, AKEL cryptically referred newsmen to a meeting that took place at the Presidential Palace in April 2005 between
Papadopoulos and two members of EOKA B.
At the time, an EOKA B member had told Ant1 television that he was indeed “co-operating” with Papadopoulos – but also with a section of AKEL – in preventing the return of the Annan plan.
Pressed for more details, Stephanos Stephanou, spokesman for presidential candidate Demetris Christofias, asserted he had additional information but would release it only when he thought the time was right.
Christofias himself has sought to distance himself from the row, telling journalists to seek answers from his election staffers.
The President meanwhile, who had kept quiet since the debate ignited last weekend, finally let loose against his accusers.
Speaking at a gathering in Larnaca late on Monday night, a visibly irate Papadopoulos went on the offensive.
“I have never met with people from EOKA B,” he declared.
“I challenge them now, in public, to say where and when these meetings were held. And if they do not, they shall be exposed as cheap slanderers,” he added.
Papadopoulos went on to say that in the past he had personally tried to make inquiries about the organisation widely considered treacherous, only to discover that no records were kept.
Asked how he felt about the fact the allegations were coming from a former ally, Papadopoulos said he was “bitter about these unfounded claims”.
Rightwing DISY, accused by its rivals of harboring EOKA B members, chose to play the role of observer in the spat.
“We apologise for having nothing to say about EOKA B. We want this election campaign to be about the future, not about the past,” said Prodromos Prodromou, spokesman for presidential candidate Ioannis Kasoulides.
EOKA B was a Greek Cypriot right-wing pro-enosis paramilitary organisation formed in 1971 that was supported by the ruling Greek military junta.
On July 15, 1974, the organisation, with the approval of the Greek dictator Demetrios Ioannides and the help of the National Guard, launched a military coup, overthrowing Archbishop Makarios and installing Nicos Sampson as the dictator of Cyprus.
The Turkish invasion followed five days later.
Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2007
it looks we can learn more , more confessions will come up to presential elections at Southern Cyprus .
Thats what they teach you?
