Friday, March 25, 2011
Archbishop: ''We have destroyed our national question''
''We destroy our national issue,''said today the Archbishop of Cyprus Chrysostomos, speaking to a group of students and professors of the University of Athens and the University of Palermo, who visited this morning the Archdiocese.
The Archbishop of Cyprus, as mentioned in the history of the Church of Cyprus, said,''sometimes they attack us, especially foreigners who do not know the history of this Church, so why they get involved in national issues and even some stir in the national policy we believe that regimes.'' Regimes''not at all.
As regards Cyprus, the Archbishop said that 37 years of talk and we have not and will not solve the problem because, he said,''the Turks do not just want north of our country, but want the whole of Cyprus and even geopolitical want to control the whole of the Middle East.''
We have destroyed our national issue. There is a defeatism in the majority of our policies and ought not to have shown that good child policy has failed. The Turk does not want to swipe but wants firm policy that we all should have put lofty goals because both Europe and America cut human rights. We are not asking anything more from our human rights, our religious freedoms,''he said.
It's a situation that constantly denounces and should never be tolerated in our people and should not accept this attitude of Turkey. The Turks are not prepared to discuss this. The effort is the full Turkification of the northern part of our country. Many of the policies they say if you do not set them back if they do not accept any claims made by the Turks at risk of partition that would be something worse,''he said.
As I said, the Turks do not want either partition, but want something more.
Then addressed the role of the British in Cyprus, saying that because they have their bases here, do not want an unambiguous solution, but a half-hearted solution so that when their interests require the solution collapses and we start from scratch.
The Turks, he said, want to consolidate the faits accomplis of the invasion and believe that the whole matter will be resolved with time. "From our hands to not allow this. To keep warm the whole thing, saying the children and our grandchildren that the space that is ours, we can not expropriate the one as years pass. And certainly our struggle will be long term due to Turkey's intransigence,''he said.
It may be small as Cyprus, he said,''but I believe that we are well organized.'' ''At last we have to put quite tall targets because if they put such targets will not succeed,''he said.
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