IMAGES: Ayia Napa honored the heroes Giannakis Pappoullis and Christakis Christou Pieris

The Annual National Memorial Service of the heroically deceased Giannaki Pappouli and Christakis Christou Pieris was held today, Sunday, August 2, at the Holy Temple of Panagia Ayia Napa.

The Memorial was presided over by the Most Venerable Metropolitan of Constantia / Famagusta, Mr. Vassilios, and the Commemorative Speech was delivered by the Mayor of Ayia Napa, Mr. Christos Zannettou, who stressed that the words are too poor to honor those who deserve it. their sacrifice the timeless values ​​of freedom and justice.

In the most adverse conditions, in July 1974, said Mr. Zannettou, the two young men from Amoustak wrote golden pages of courage and bravery and turned into overnight worthy children of the homeland, honoring their oath and the sacred weapons entrusted to them by homeland.

It has been 46 whole years since the black and tragic summer of the coup and invasion of 1974 and "we continue to fight for a peaceful and lasting solution to the Cyprus problem, which will free our island from Turkish occupation, foreign troops and the invasive rights of third countries ".

"We are fighting for a solution that will restore and guarantee the basic human rights of all Cypriots, on the basis of international and European law. In order to be able to live in European Cyprus, all the communities together, peacefully and in a fraternal way, in conditions of security, freedom and justice ".

The sacrifices of the children of our people for freedom and democracy will be fully justified, stressed the Mayor of Ayia Napa "if we finally succeed with our struggles and efforts, to solve the problem that has plagued our country and people for 46 years years ".

With a legacy of the sacrifice of our heroes Giannakis Pappoulis and Christakis Pieris Christou, he continued, "we are called to continue the struggle for the reunification of Cyprus and liberation from the accomplishments of the Turkish invasion". It owes all of us, he noted, to those who gave their lives, what is most valuable to man, who sacrificed for our country, is the struggle for the reunification of Cyprus and defending the integrity of our country.

"46 years later, it continues to prove that this is how they are born and become heroes. Ordinary people who choose at the critical moment to conquer life for a moment and to despise death, turning the ideal of freedom and dignity into a matter of life and death. "

This was followed by the laying of wreaths at the Monuments of the Heroes, the touch of the flame by the athletes of the Association "Periklis Dimitriou" and an artistic program by Marianna X '' Christou, song and Sebastiana Nourou, piano.