Get Real! wrote:Paphitis wrote:Get Real! wrote:Nikitas wrote:Journalist Makarios Droushiotis, darling of many TC posters, today came out in favor of the cross voting system proposed by President Christofias.
Not surprised, MD is one of the people that Downer and Co have approached and greased to support the Turkish thesis on Cyprus.
Alexander Downer does not even know who Makarios Droushiotis is!
Furthermore, Alexander Downer is a far too superior politician, and is more intelligent, and professional to allow himself to get bogged down by Cypriot witch hunts and paranoia politics....
There's a thread somewhere where we posted evidence of Downer's involvement in a dodgy "think tank" type of company, and of approaches made to selected individuals in Cyprus to support their thesis.
Similar things happened leading up to the 2004 AP referendum that the late TPap was complaining about and Bananiot denies!
I know the think tank he is involved in , and it is the very same think tank I am a member of along with 2 prominent advisers on Cyprus.
Furthermore, AD is powerless to influence any policy decisions from either side. This is not his mandate. You can blame Christofias for any failings, because Downer does not propose anything, and approaches the talks with realism, which means that he is almost certain that an agreement will
NOT be reached...
And btw, the think tank I refer too is nothing more than a Political Sciences think tank which has Australia's leading political scientists, some of which were also advisers to the Australian Government about Cyprus...
They are just academics of some global note, from various universities....They do not serve any dark imperialist interests.