Anastasiades continues going around in circles with the danger of the Cyprus problem and our country being led to disaster increasingly visible
Statement by Yiorgos Loucaides, AKEL Political Bureau member and AKEL-Left-New Forces Parliamentary Representative
AKEL C.C. Press Office, 30 May 2018, Nicosia
We totally agree with Mr. Anastasiades that without a doubt the party can’t be placed over and above the homeland, or/and we add the seat of power.
We also agree with Mr. Anastasiades that for sure a solution of the Cyprus problem that does not liberate us from guarantees, intervention rights and occupying troops cannot be accepted. But what did he himself choose between the homeland and the seat of power, when he did not make use of the historic opportunity, which existed according to UN Secretary-General Mr. Guterres, to get rid of guarantees, intervention rights and occupying troops?
One wonders, did Mr. Guterres decide in the report he submitted to commend Turkey’s stand on the issues of security and guarantees because of AKEL’s opposition in Cyprus or did he did that after seeing and he himself personally witnessed how Mr. Anastasiades behaved in the Crans Montana conference?
Respectively, when the European Commission, through the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherin, was expressing her gratitude for the hard work she and Turkey had made for the solution of the Cyprus problem last July, did she perhaps do so because she was listening to AKEL or after she in person experienced Mr. Anastasiades at Crans Montana?
Finally, as Mr. Anastasiades reiterated today that he rejected the Guterres framework of 30th June, can he perhaps explain why in his letter to the UN Secretary-General dated 18th July 2017 he invokes his own compliance with the one and only Guterres framework itself that was submitted, namely the one of 30th June? Wasn’t it perhaps this framework, of 30th June, which the UN Secretary-General himself cites in his Report last September?
Unfortunately, it is evident that Mr. Anastasiades continues to go around in circles regressing, lost in his expediencies, contradictions and tactical games, with the danger of the Cyprus problem and our country being led to disaster becoming increasingly visible.
