BirKibrisli wrote:Kikapu wrote:Annan outlined the plan in a 138-page document[3] and gave Clerides and Denktaş one week to accept it as a basis for final negotiations. He wanted to submit his plan to twin referenda on March 30, 2004, just before the Republic of Cyprus was expected to sign an accession agreement with the EU, and he hoped that the short deadline would provoke Turkish Cypriots to support the plan since it was feared that their rejection would make the division permanent.
This sentence make no sense to me at all.
Surely, it was to provoke the Greek Cypriots to accept the AP or else the division would become permanent. Surely, by declaring the "trnc" as a state by the TCs in 1983, they were in effect declaring a permanent division.! AP would have secured that position if the TCs said YES along with the GCs.!
Did I miss something in the above quote.??
That sentence doesn't make sense either ,Kikapu...
Did you get it the wrong way around,or have you too caught the history-revisionist bug...
I don't think so, Bir.
By the TCs and the GCs saying YES to the AP, permanent partition would have become a reality. The only reason the partition has not become permanent, is because the GCs said NO to the AP.
The TCs did not need provoking to vote YES, or else the division would become permanent. No, just by the TCs voting YES without provocation, the division would have become permanent. It was the GC that needed provoking to make them believe, that if they said NO to the AP, that the division would become permanent, in the hopes that the GCs would have voted YES, which would have brought the permanent division of Cyprus under the AP, had the GCs fallen for the provoking scam.
That was my point.!