The people of Famagusta expressed their strong concern about the stagnation and the lack of progress in the Cyprus issue to the President of the Republic. The mayor Alexis Galanos and the municipal councilors of Famagusta requested a meeting and were received yesterday by President Anastasiadis, to whom they strongly expressed their disappointment for developments that pin down any hope of returning to their city.
Presidential Palace, Nicosia, Cyprus
It is not MOE
The delegation asked the President to raise the issue of Famagusta out of negotiations, as provided by the relevant resolutions, and not as a CCM. The PTA, according to information from "P", explained to them that the issue of Famagusta as a MOE is set as preparation for the return of the city, since the involvement of technical committees for studies and investigations is planned, something that has not progressed.
They want a solution
However, the concern of the people of Famagusta is intense for the information from the occupied areas about plan B ', which "solves" the property in the Skouridis model. That is, by opening some areas of the closed city and calling on the people of Varos to use their property, as was allowed in the Skouridis case in Larnaca, Lapithos. The Municipality of Famagusta does not want and does not favor the return to occupied Famagusta.
Loss of use
The delegation of Famagusta also raised the issue of the loss of use of property, asking for the implementation of the pre-election announcements for the payment of a loss of use allowance. They told the President that for 45 years there have been two-speed citizens and that the refugees have paid the full cost of the invasion.
Refugees push for loss of use
The claim of the President of the Republic in an interview with "Politis" last month that the allowance for loss of use of property to the refugees that had been set before the elections was something that was "said by one of the ministers" and not a commitment, provokes reactions among to the wider refugees, who, in the absence of a common organized structure, cannot transmit them to the general public.
However, those who are refugees, or have refugees in their family or socialize with refugees, will surely hear these discussions take place with intensity and with great frustration.
They break out on the internet
Talks that take place in closed or open refugee groups on social media are typical.
Yesterday, in one of them from the district of the province of Morphou, the discussion about the loss of their property reopened, the fact that they pay the full burden of the invasion and occupation and especially that they lose the last hope to return to the basis of a solution to the Cyprus problem .
He thinks of other ways
According to information from "Politis", when the issue was raised by the Famagusta group yesterday to the President of the Republic, they received almost the same answer that Nikos Anastasiadis gave in his interview with "Politis". That is, it was an idea of a minister, after the intense emotional charge after the impasse in the talks on the Cyprus issue. He told them that there are financial difficulties, but he is thinking of other ways of compensation. He did not give details, however.
The Municipality of Famagusta gives today a press conference both for the meeting of the delegation with the President of the Republic, and for the issue of the loss of use of property to the refugees.
Source: CITIZEN