Piratis wrote:The Annan plan would officially Turkify the north part of Cyprus and at the same time would downgrade us to just a "community" who would not be able to take any democratic decisions for our own island and would depend on the TC minority, whose leadership would in turn continue to be remotely controlled by Turkey and serve the Turkish interests (as it always did). This means that the Turkish aim of partition would be achieved, all the problems of TCs and Turkey would be solved and the Cyprus Problem would be closed in a way that violates the most basic human and democratic rights of the vast majority of the Cypriot people.
We naturally rejected the Annan plan and instead of the dissolution and the downgrade that this plan would bring we instead maintained our state and sovereignty rights over the whole island, while upgrading ourselves by becoming EU members and in this way making the Cyprus Problem a bigger problem to Turkey than it has ever been before.
The Annan plan was designed to solve the foreseen problems for Turkey, and not the problems that the illegal occupation creates to the Cypriot people. It is no coincidence that this plan was brought to us just days before our EU accession. Fortunately we didn't fall in that trap.
Some Bananiots would have us believe that we would supposedly regret that we rejected that dreadful plan. Seven years after and the only ones who are sad that this plan was not accepted remain those who supported this plan in 2004 (i.e. not the vast majority of Cypriots).
In so far as the rejection of the Annan plan goes I am with you all the way on that: it was a disgrace that Annan allowed the Turks to make so many late changes, which were designed to emasculate the ROC.
