by Pyrpolizer » Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:33 pm
@Murataga and Zan,
So you basically want partition, i.e a part of Cyprus to belong to you, be administred by you, and you want that be agreed with the GCs.This would be possible if the now occupied areas 37% of the land belonged to you. As you know almost 90% of the privately owned lands in that area belongs to GCs.
So what you want is not something the Gcs would never accept.
The equivalent of what you want looked from the GC side would be every GC refugee to go back to his lands and the TCs move to their villages as they were before. All settlers to go away, and you just be citizens with individual rights only, i.e no political power beyond what you can get via your own 18% voting power. Which in most cases would just count for nothing other than just regulating which among the GCs gets the power.
Both the above are impossible. So there comes the question how you can have an area in which you will be ruled by yourselves and have your political power count for youselves. The answer is through a Federal system in which the GCs will still have a say concerning the areas they will handle over to you for administration. This cannot be done by just allowing say 10% GCs to go back to their villages. So you have to accept the idea that you will not be living alone in the area that will be handled to you.More over that the GCs will be having political power in your own component state (on component state level) that will regulate your own affairs.
As for property owneship even if all TC properties left behind are exchanged with equal GC properties the GCs will still hold ownership of most properties in your component state.( Unless of course we do some tricks as per Anan Plan where the GCs would lose 2/3rds)
So these are the realities both you and the GCs have to swallow to have a peaceful solution.
I said before the solution is going to be BITTER both for you and for us. I wonder if your leaders ever told you that… For your information they told us that hundreds of times, however I am not sure many GC people understood why. I am curious if your leaders told you that even once.