Get Real! wrote:insan wrote:Get Real! wrote:insan wrote:“The political equality of the two communities in and the bi-communal nature of the federation need to be acknowledged. While political equality does not mean equal numerical participation in all federal government branches and administration, it should be reflected inter alia in various ways: in the requirement that the federal constitution of the State of Cyprus be approved or amended with the concurrence of both communities; in the effective participation of both communities in all organs and decisions of the federal Government in safeguards to ensure that the federal Government will not be empowered to adopt any measures against the interests of one community; and in the equality and identical powers and functions of the two federated States.”
This is BLATANT ETHNICITY PITTING to ensure the downfall of a government/nation because what it’s essentially suggesting is the use of ETHNIC VETO in every decision!
I’m disgusted that such rubbish is considered in this day and age!
No, GR! What it's essentially suggesting is the use of veto in case one of the ethnic groups attempts to go against the legal rights and freedoms of other ethnic group... We call it fair play...
You call it “fair play” yet that's what destroyed us in the first place!
If you go back to what made Makarios suggest the 13 point amendments you’ll find it was because the ethnic veto kept paralyzing the country, and you wanna go back to that again???
I hope u won't deny the fact that sole aim of Makarios and his backing pressure groups was still Enosis. I don't have concrete evidence whether he and his backers were looking for excuses to create an impression that TCs were paralyzing the government with their ethnic veto but logically I could comfortably claim that Makarios and his backing pressure groups were looking for excuses to create impressions that TCs were blocking the smooth functioning of RoC.(Soon i'll go library to explore then the TC media of 1960-63 period.)
Let's assume everything was working perfectly, would such a smooth functioning state of affairs stop Makarios, his backing pressure groups and opposing groups(especially Grivasites) ploting to ensure GC rule/Enosis in Cyprus? 99% NO!