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[brother]

todays kibris: http://www.kibrisgazetesi.com/?newsid=19600&category=3

There was an agreement that if a greek school opened in dipkarpasia under gc control one would open in limassol under tc control, but today tassos has decided it won't happen and instead will recruit tc teachers and have them in the same schools as gc, so i ask after this move should we close the school in dipkarpasia and make the gc students go to tc schools and recruit gc teachers ourselves, you see tassos makes deals and always goes back on his word, he stabbed the E.U in the back, then his own gc constituents with his nepotism and now the tc, this really makes a lot of ground in the trust issue.

[cannedmoose]

todays kibris: http://www.kibrisgazetesi.com/?newsid=19600&category=3

There was an agreement that if a greek school opened in dipkarpasia under gc control one would open in limassol under tc control, but today tassos has decided it won't happen and instead will recruit tc teachers and have them in the same schools as gc, so i ask after this move should we close the school in dipkarpasia and make the gc students go to tc schools and recruit gc teachers ourselves, you see tassos makes deals and always goes back on his word, he stabbed the E.U in the back, then his own gc constituents with his nepotism and now the tc, this really makes a lot of ground in the trust issue.

Why doesn't the TC administration make a slightly more subtle and effective move than that... closing the school won't help one iota, it'll just make the TCs the bad guys again. Rather, the state should set up an independent charitable trust under the charge of a committee of TC's in the south, use this to fund the opening of a school in Limassol and also to recruit and pay the teachers. Then the school will only be indirectly funded by the TRNC and not subject to the whole 'recognition' drama that would follow.

Simply ordering the closing down of the school in the north would be political suicide on this issue.

[brother]

There is no official line at the moment about what they will do, that was my opinion of what could happen and also my aim to display that tassos is not and never will be a trustworthy person.
But i see what you are saying cannedmoose and a worthwhile idea but i bet the tassos admin. would find a way to stop that as well, do i sound pessimistic.

[Bananiot]

I have been away for three days but heard of another Tasos lie and this is how Patroklos saw it in the Sunday Mail.

"THE POLISH president, Aleksander Kasniewski, made a cardinal error on his official visit to the plantation. He took what our Ethnarch (Tasos) told him about his sincere desire for a settlement, seriously and repeated it to journalists after their meeting. He told hacks that Tassos had told him, he had asked the UN to launch a new initiative to solve the Cyprob.

Tassos confirmed this, but the UN set the record straight the same evening. No formal request had been made for an initiative it explained. So the following day the government spokesman explained what had actually happened.

Our Permanent Rep at the UN asked the Deputy Secretary-General Sir Kieran Prendergast to explore what needed to be done for a new initiative to be undertaken. As if we didn’t know…

This suits the Ethnarch as he can keep telling leaders of other states who ask what was being done about finding a settlement that we called on the UN to undertake an initiative. He doesn’t bother telling them that the initiative will never materialise because he refuses to tell the UN what changes he wants made to the A-plan – a pre-requisite for the new initiative he earnestly yearns.

[cannedmoose]

There is no official line at the moment about what they will do, that was my opinion of what could happen and also my aim to display that tassos is not and never will be a trustworthy person.
But i see what you are saying cannedmoose and a worthwhile idea but i bet the tassos admin. would find a way to stop that as well, do i sound pessimistic.

Not if they route the money through the UK, can't see how they could prevent a UK-based charity from operating...

[garbitsch]

I thought Turkish was one of the official languages of RoC. Why dont they open a Turkish school then? Keep putting butter on our bread

[erolz]

I thought Turkish was one of the official languages of RoC. Why dont they open a Turkish school then? Keep putting butter on our bread

Actually the opening of a Turkish school is not the issue. The issue is weather such a school should be controlled by the RoC - with the RoC deciding the syalbus and hiring the teachers or the TRNC doing so.

The deal that was agreed is the the GC school in the North could be run by the RoC and the sylabus set by them and the teachers hired by them. In return the reverse was to be allowed for the TC school in the South. However in now seems that whilst they expect the GC school in the North to be under RoC control the GC adminstration also wants the Turkish school in the South to be run by RoC as well. So much for confidence build measure I guess

[boulio]

no such thing as ministry of education in the trnc,so the ROC runs the school.

[erolz]

no such thing as ministry of education in the trnc,so the ROC runs the school.

Well I may as well tell you that you can not return to Kyrenia because there is no such thing as Kyrenia (there is only Girne). Such an approach does little to bring a solution to the problem but much to solidify it. It's a good job then that I do not take such an appraoch that you do - so at least some hope remains for the future.

If there was no such thing as a minsitry of education in the TRNC then who exactly did the GC make their agreements with re both schools in question? Who is it that is likely to retailiate to GC renaging on agreements by taking control of the GC school in the south? Who is it that will be the losers to this kind of action? The TRNC? The RoC? Or the school children?

Really it's hard to imagine that you want any solution short of TC to just give you everything you want. Please do keep 'shooting for the sky' for every time you do you help the TRNC by default.

[boulio]

yawn,your on borrowed time.