Half a century after the black summer of 1974, the Cypriot people do not accept, consent and disapprove of the achievements of the invasion and occupation, stated the Minister of Defense, Michalis Giorgallas, underlining the determination of the President of the Republic to fight for the end of the impasse and the resumption of dialogue with the aim of reaching a fair, sustainable and functional solution to the Cyprus issue.
"Our people, half a century after the black summer of 1974, cannot come to terms with the unbearable internal pain, the lamentation, the sadness and the shock caused by the refugees and the unnecessary loss of loved ones", said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a speech during the annual religious memorial service in memory of the fallen of the 231st Infantry Battalion, yesterday Sunday.
The people, stressed Michalis Giorgallas, "do not accept, do not consent and disapprove of the achievements of the invasion and occupation".
"We must and are determined, ladies and gentlemen, with unity, unity, faith and determination, learning from the past, to fight for the present, and to claim the future that is appropriate for our children and the next generations of Cyprus," he added .
As he said, we must and are determined, ladies and gentlemen, with unity, unity, faith and determination, learning from the past, to fight for the present, and to claim the future that is appropriate for our children and the next generations of Cyprus.
Mr. Giorgallas emphasized that the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulidis, has repeatedly stated that we are determined to fight tirelessly to end the impasse that has occurred in the talks, to restart the dialogue and to participate in an honest process of negotiation and compromise, with the aim of arrive at a fair, sustainable and workable solution.
"A solution that will lift the occupation, restore the unity of our homeland and allow Cypriot citizens to live together under a regime of equality and equality", he said, adding that "we will fight tirelessly and tirelessly, until the coveted sun of freedom and justice to finally fly in the skies of our long-suffering homeland".
"We owe it to our homeland, to our ancestors, we owe it to our people, to our children. We owe it to our heroes," he said.
According to YPAM, however, it is an indisputable truth that the Turkish invasion that followed the coup found the organization and cohesion of our armed forces in dire straits and the unity and morale of our people deeply wounded.
"July 1974 is for Cypriot Hellenism a nightmarish pivotal point, a black station in history and a moment of pernicious and bottomless destruction, the results of which we are still experiencing today", he concluded.
Source: KYPE