children from the Elementary School of Kato Polemidia
President Anastasiades: We
need the strength of unity
to overcome the problems
The President of the Republic, Mr Nicos Anastasiades,
appealed to the political forces for unity, noting that the circumstances we
went through and are experiencing are difficult but the battles we will give
will be more difficult. He pointed out that we need the strength of unity to
overcome the problems that will be raised through the Turkish or Turkish
Cypriot demands at the negotiating table.
The President of the Republic, who was speaking at the
Presidential Palace to teachers and children from the Elementary School
of Kato Polemidia, said: “I am deeply moved to welcome you, knowing that you
come mostly from occupied areas.”
President Anastasiades went on to say that “I want to
assure you that we will engage in the struggle to see our homeland free again,
we will engage in the struggle to see human rights restored, we will engage in
the struggle for the basic freedoms that will safeguard all our citizens and
make sure that all citizens will enjoy the same things the rest of the European
citizens are enjoying.”
The President added that “If the 28 (member-states) of
the European Union, with 28 different nationalities or origins, manage to
cooperate, to build together and to create prospects, I wonder why two
communities that have lived peacefully together for years cannot manage to do
the same, with mutual respect for each other’s ethnic origin. Ethnic origin was
not and must not be the problem. It is human rights that must bring us close
together by safeguarding them.”
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