We must continue our efforts with one mind and unity to solve our national problem, said the Minister of Education, Sports and Youth Athina Michailidou, in a speech at the Solemn Doxology for the National Anniversaries of March 25, 1821 and April 1, 1955, which took place on Sunday in the Holy Church of Agios Minas in Geri.
In this context, according to Ms. Michailidou, “our highest priority remains the end of the ongoing occupation and the restoration of human rights for all the inhabitants of our country”.
“We have a duty to continue their struggle for the liberation and reunification of our homeland”, he said and added that “this struggle is not over”.
Mrs. Michailidou also said that “as the President of the Republic himself has repeatedly stated, what is sought is the resumption of talks, in order, through dialogue, to achieve a comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus issue, on the basis of a fair and sustainable solution”.
“We wish for the liberation and reunification of Cyprus, as well as the prevalence of the values of peace and justice”, he said and added that “we want to give every citizen the right to live in our country under conditions of security, prosperity and progress” and “to hand over to the new generation a homeland free from occupation and segregation”.
For this goal, according to the Minister of Education, “we will continue to fight, because this is what we owe to all those who lived, grew up and died in the refugee camp, to those who are still waiting for their return”.
This is what we owe, he continued, mainly to those who fought and sacrificed for the freedom of our country and “this will be the true justification of their sacrifice with their very lives, the most precious good”.
“Today honoring the two anniversaries that sealed the modern history of Cyprus and while our homeland, after the treacherous coup and the Turkish invasion of 1974, continues for 50 years to is under Turkish occupation, the fighters with their sacrifice remind us of the price of love for freedom and the homeland”, she underlined.
Ms. Michailidou said that ” it is to them that we owe the existence of the Republic of Cyprus and “that is why it is with immense respect for these fighters and their families that we face every year the sacrifice of their very lives”.
Source: KYPE
