Maximus wrote:the communities can keep social services, money, expenditures, tax, benefits system, welfare etc separate. They will just be enforcing federal law in their respective zones. A bi-regional federation has to have a democratic government to oversee everything, a single international personality.
where is the Turkish constituency? Greek Cypriot refugees or their heirs want to start earning rent, or sell, or choose to live in their home under federal law.
Maximus, if there was a Greek Constituency, you could ask, where is the Turkish Constituency, right now only the Republic exists. do not confuse or belittle the Federal Government as a power to defend its Citizens' Individual Rights, because you feel safe that it is "Greek" and it represents "your" intentions. if as well there are zones, one would vote for your Representation as a Citizen of this State, indeed, as a Cypriot, and, in the 'zone' you reside you'd vote, with their respective National Assemblies allowing for the representation of its electors as Persons, first (who respect Universal Principals in recognising in their acts as a majority they are able in providing minorities amongst them, for their special needs). thus, as Individuals Cypriots will fight for their Freedom, as Persons, they could be fighting for more Liberty. recognising the Bicommunal dimension of our desires, as Human Beings as well as National identities, demands Cypriot Constituencies. for Greeks and Turks who are Cypriot, a Cypriot State is needed, not a Greek state that recognises, "others" as minorities.
"bi-regional"? how is that an improvement to the Constitution Cyprus has today (with its Communal Chamber) (or to the proposal as it is today, Bizonal)? does this imply, a Federal Government divided by region; how does this relate geographically to a Bicommunal nature: what is the difference, if zones exist?
...zones can be components, allowing for a set of them to be an expression of a Constituency, and they allow for more than two Cypriot Constituencies; are Maronites, Latins, Armenians not entitled to the living relics they sustain, to care for them as their own? should their precious Heritance be allowed to wither because we (let's just say, the rest of us) cannot recognise that they too are an important part of a delicate ethnography? why does the island have to be divided in two? what of the displaced, aren't they our greatest shame, shall we continue to deny them, and the senseless harm they suffered, and still suffer, because they stayed as Cypriots, rather than run away as could be expected against an overwhelming force, if they were the "Greeks"/"Turks" who had blood on their hands? and what is wrong with enclaves, so that at least, Cypriots, (the displaced in the Greek/Turkish proxy wars from '63 and '74), for some, a return as communities? the island would not be split in two anymore, it would be the choice of Cypriots without restriction where they'll reside (as a "majority" or "minority", island-wide), Justice is seen, they will secure our Free Movement, and Free Association, they will end the Green-Line as a "border", it will become another frontier among many, only representing a Jurisdictional Territory, not Sovereignty.
i look forward to a Greek Constituency, like a Turkish Constituency, or others, vital because they educate their children in their schools as Greeks, and refined because on a larger scale, as Cypriots, they meet even higher standards. i look forward to two Hospital Systems, because in meeting a unified standard as Cypriot care, they will compete and collaborate, develop complimentry care, providing in the long-run better medical care. i look forward to Cyprus being the crossroad to 3 Continents, its cities most cosmopolitain, the People most socialised, instead of the backwater it has been for 350 years, until recently.
