State officials help displaced people to appeal to the so-called compensation committee and for this help they are paid. This was stated by Interior Minister Socrates Hasikos after the meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Refugees.
S. Hasikos said that after an investigation carried out by the Ministry of Interior, the matter is before the Legal Service, to which piles of documents have been submitted and the whole case is being investigated and does not concern one but more people.
Regarding the appeals of Greek Cypriots displaced to the so-called compensation committee, the Minister of Interior said that due to the unfavorable financial conditions it continues but "with reduced intensity" expressing dissatisfaction for some who do not have the financial need but still appeal before the "committee" in the occupied territories.
Before the Commission and describing the situation with the Greek Cypriot properties in the occupied territories and the Turkish Cypriots in the free areas, he said that "a homeland is for sale" from Paphos to Kyrenia.
In relation to the measures implemented to help the refugees, the Minister of Interior said that they concern urban relaxation, the redistribution of T / C properties, the exemption from transfer fees and the financial support from the Agency for Equal Burden, with the affidavit for non-compliance. appeal to the so-called Compensation Committee of the Occupied Territories.
S. Koukouma: "National compensation is the compensation committee"
For her part, the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Refugees, Skevi Koukouma, described the government's measures to support refugees as "aspirin".
He added that, as has been said within the Commission, the so-called Compensation Committee is a "national risk" and so we must understand it "and see more closely what measures we could take to help the refugees", since the policy prevails for this vulnerable group of our population does not support him and does not help him not to resort to the occupied for compensation.
DISY MP Sophocles Hatzigiannis said that until now at the cross-party level there is no end to have a coordinated proposal that responds to this national risk of appealing to the compensation committee of the occupied.
He called on the National Council to return to the issue "because there are new proposals that need to be considered, new approaches that have not been taken into account so far and we believe that with a spirit of unity and effective approach to the issue, we will come up with proposals aimed at in how the homeland is saved ”and in how the phenomenon of appealing to the so-called pseudo-state commission will stop.
DIKO MP Sophocles Fyttis said that some people resort to Turkish or Turkish banks in the occupied territories and take loans by mortgaging their assets which end up in the pseudo-state if they do not repay their loan.
He called on the National Council to review the report of the Inter-Party Committee regarding the appeals of the Greek Cypriots in the occupied territories for damages and to advise the President of the Republic that "it is of the utmost national importance to cut the issue of appeals".
EDEK MP George Varnavas suggested that the Government take measures where the refugee is proven unable to respond to loans he has taken out to freeze both loans and interest.
Regarding the so-called compensation committee, he said that EDEK's position and appeal to the refugee world is not to turn to it despite the financial crisis that plagues them, while he said that "you can only characterize those who appeal to the" committee "as traitors. And do not have the financial need.
Perdikis: "Athyrostomos o YPES"
The president of the Ecologists' Movement, George Perdikis, said that the lack of political will on the part of the Government to take effective measures to prevent the sale of Greek Cypriot land to the occupied territories was evident again.
He said that the Minister of Interior "with his well-known athyrostomy exclaimed at the meeting 'for sale, father, you do not understand'" and added that unfortunately the Government has not adopted proposals of the Inter-Party Committee for appeals while there was even At the beginning of the negotiations, the flow of appeals to the commission would stop, which is not the case due to the stalemate in the talks and the solution of the Cyprus problem, which is still far away.
Source: FILELEFTHEROS