AKEL condemns Turkey’s actions to upgrade pseudo-state and points out dangers from maximalist unfeasible goals
AKEL C.C. Press Office, 25th May 2016, Nicosia
AKEL reiterates its condemnation of Turkey’s actions to upgrade the pseudo-state at the UN summit in Istanbul. We consider these actions as undermining the procedure of the solution, as we also consider the stand of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Cyprus Mr. Espen Barth Eide as unacceptable and counterproductive.
The easiest thing is for the Democratic Party (DIKO), guided by expediencies, to apportion responsibilities on AKEL for Turkey’s condemnable actions to upgrade the pseudo-state, but also for possible omissions of the President of the Republic who is responsible for the handling of the Cyprus problem. The hardest part is for DIKO to recognize that the greatest danger for the upgrading of the pseudo-state always arose when maximalist, unfeasible goals were prevalent in the policy of the Greek Cypriot side and when our policy was not being understood by all those involved in the Cyprus problem, such as, for example, when until February 2008 we had arrived at an complete deadlock on the Cyprus problem, but our European partners were threatening us with the regulation for the direct trade with the pseudo-state. Even more difficult is for the Democratic Party to explain to our people how we can liberate ourselves from the occupation and the partition through maximalist goals and as a result the indirect abandonment of the agreed goal for a bizonal, bicommunal federal solution.
For AKEL, the only real option that can lead to the liberation and reunification of our homeland and people is to be found in the consistent and militant assertion of all of that has been unanimously agreed to in the National Council, but also with the other side and the international community all the previous years.
