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[DT.]

Thanks to AKEL and its insistence in not joining the Partnership for Peace program we are now the ONLY member of the EU that is excluded from this defense program.

AKEL's insistence in not joining because it considers it a backdoor into NATO is laughable if you consider that Russia is also a member of it.

The European Parliament has called on Cyprus today to join this partnership once more and has even pre-empted a possible Turkish veto by calling on Turkey to allow the membership to go ahead.

Well done North Korean comrades. Cyprus unfortunately is hostage to this paleolithic party stuck in a time-warp of the cold war.

[Bananiot]

Could it be the other way DT? Think about it.

[Paphitis]

Thanks to AKEL and its insistence in not joining the Partnership for Peace program we are now the ONLY member of the EU that is excluded from this defense program.

AKEL's insistence in not joining because it considers it a backdoor into NATO is laughable if you consider that Russia is also a member of it.

The European Parliament has called on Cyprus today to join this partnership once more and has even pre-empted a possible Turkish veto by calling on Turkey to allow the membership to go ahead.

Well done North Korean comrades. Cyprus unfortunately is hostage to this paleolithic party stuck in a time-warp of the cold war.

Let's not forget that Cyprus is about to open a Consulate in Cuba.

Are there no nations more worthy than Cuba? New Zealand for example does not have a Cyprus Consulate and there is a sizeable Cypriot Community there as well.

Methinks Christofias has lost the plot.

[doesntmatter]

Thanks to AKEL and its insistence in not joining the Partnership for Peace program we are now the ONLY member of the EU that is excluded from this defense program.

AKEL's insistence in not joining because it considers it a backdoor into NATO is laughable if you consider that Russia is also a member of it.

The European Parliament has called on Cyprus today to join this partnership once more and has even pre-empted a possible Turkish veto by calling on Turkey to allow the membership to go ahead.

Well done North Korean comrades. Cyprus unfortunately is hostage to this paleolithic party stuck in a time-warp of the cold war.

You GCs voted for a commie and now you are complaining?

[CBBB]

When there might have been an advantage to joining the Warsaw Pact, we didn't, we became NON-ALIGNED. The worst of both worlds!!!!

Now that NATO is basically the only game in town, we don't want to know!!!

Will be be sent to a gulag for saying these things?

[Paphitis]

When there might have been an advantage to joining the Warsaw Pact, we didn't, we became NON-ALIGNED. The worst of both worlds!!!!

Now that NATO is basically the only game in town, we don't want to know!!!

Will be be sent to a gulag for saying these things?

Well it will either be the Gulag or Siberia if Christofias moves on to his secret desires of ENOSIS with mother Russia.

[Paphitis]

Could it be the other way DT? Think about it.

Defence and security is a noble thing and a vital responsibility of every reasonable Government.

Christofias is making a very big mistake by not trying to join the PfP program, regardless of the fact that Turkey may veto and once again prove to the EU no less, that it is nothing but a backward, uncivilised and undemocratic nation, as well as a big fat school yard bully.

[DT.]

Could it be the other way DT? Think about it.

Thats right Bananiot, to quote in your spirit, our excellent statesmen in AKEL who are now running the show know better than the EU. Woe be to the German politician who battles with our AKEL visionaries.

[Oracle]

What do we get if we join? I don't understand the need for all these clubs.

We are the least warmongering nation, so we do not need a badge that says we are for peace; unlike the hypocrites Turkey, who are members, but their actions say otherwise ....

[Bananiot]

My question rather refers to the people (the majority!) that follow AKEL. In the beginning of the 20th century and right through the cold war perhaps, Akel could appeal to the masses in the face of an inhuman capitalist system that produced exploitation of the weak. Nowadays, many of the members of AKEL are educated people. In the meantime, the socialist world colapsed. Yet AKEL grows in strenght. How do you explain this DT?

I can give you my thoughts on this, but I am interested in yours first. You see, I'd much rather look at causes that try to explain phenomena than merely listing phenomena.