utu wrote:Kikapu wrote:utu wrote:Sounds like the idea is a non-starter then. Pity. Sport would be an ideal ground-breaker, like the 'ping-pong' diplomacy of USA and China...
All sports comes with rules utu, and one needs to abide by them if they want to be part of it, and the rules of the FIFA and UEFA are, that in order for any matches to be staged in the north, the CTFA must sign a document whereby they recognise the CFA and agree to become members, since all the territory is only recognised as Cyprus by the UN and the EU, and the CFA as the only official body. These are the rules, and everyone involved knows the rules. The only question that remains to be answered is, are they prepared to play by the rules, that's all.!
That may be, but there would have to be concessions from both sides. Turkish Cypriots will not stand for seeing the ROC flag and hearing the Greek Anthem at games. The south may have to opt for the "China Taipei" model of sporting flag and neutalist anthem as their compromise.
Utu, my darling, since you seem to have an opinion as to how the TC's sports problems must be solved, can you also make some suggestion, if you have an opinion, as to how the problem of me and the other 200,000 GC refugee's, 35 years long human rights violation problems, should be solved? Do you have anything to propose on that, or you only know about how the TC’s sporting problems can be solved? Does the “Taiwan formula” have anything too, for the 200 K GC refugees that have been striped off their properties, homes, villages, culture and history, for 35 long years now?
