The urgency of the times demands that we stop the hostile challenges together, in order to ensure our national interest and the survival of the Cypriot Hellenism, stressed the Speaker of Parliament Annita Dimitriou, in a commemorative speech at the event of remembrance and honor for the heroes.
With contemplation and solidarity, with faith in the law of our national cause and with the weapon the upgraded role of our country in the wider regional scene, as Mrs. Dimitriou underlined, “we have a duty to continue the struggle for a functional and sustainable solution of our national which will create conditions of prosperity and security for all the inhabitants of the island “.
Especially these days, according to the Speaker of Parliament, “after Erdogan's illegal and blackmailing actions in the enclosed area of Famagusta, we must be even more stubborn in insisting on the resumption of negotiations, insisting and advocating legality, international law principles and values “.
“We can not and in no way have the right to hand over to our children divided homelands or to tolerate the legality of the occupation,” he stressed.
Ms. Dimitriou also said that the days of July are drowning days, days of observing a minute of silence and days of memory of a tragic and necessary account, but also “days that require all of us to take responsibility.”
He said that “forty-seven whole years have passed since the black July of '74, with Turkey remaining uncompromising in its plans, expansive in its aspirations, working out new troubles and new accomplishments for the country.”
He added that “in addition to its multi-layered and multi-faceted aggressive policy in Cyprus, the Eastern Mediterranean and the wider region, the occupying power is trying to impose its narrative through new channels of diffusion, instrumentalizing culture and falsifying history.”
The Speaker of Parliament said that “this fact makes it necessary – if not necessary – for us to preserve the memory and pay the appropriate tribute, as she said,” to the defenders of freedom, to those who fell in battle or on duty, to the executed, the missing, the trapped border guards, the refugees who left and did not catch up, but also the awareness of our debt to the younger generations that will come “.
“By sticking to the memory of the place and its heroes, to the very human geography that constitutes our history, we are defending human dignity and the greatness of self-denial and sacrifice,” he said.
Ms. Dimitriou referred to “our leading poet Kyriakos Charalambidis, who in his great composition for Gialousa Aigialousis visit”, as he noted, “sets the” visit “of the names, ie the study and study of language and words – as a key to returning to our essential and deeper self “.
