Cyprus will never stop fighting for its physical and national survival despite the challenges, Presidential Commissioner Fotis Fotiou said on Friday, adding that Turkey and its accredited regime in the occupied territories insist on their intransigent positions, precluding the resumption of negotiations for a solution to the Cyprus problem.
In his speech at the celebration of the national anniversary of April 1 at the Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour in Sotira, Fotiou said that "independence is today the most important weapon in the struggle for liberation from Turkish occupation, the reunification of the homeland and the survival of our people. With independence and the internationally recognized rights deriving from it, we are fighting at every level to defend our just positions by responding with responsibility and seriousness to the challenges before us."
After stating that the road remains rough and the challenges are great but we will never stop fighting for our physical and national survival.
Referring to April 1, 1955, the Commissioner of the Presidency said that it was the highlight of modern Cypriot history.
The Hellenism of Cyprus rose up against Great Britain, the great colonial power of the time, which bought our island in 1878 from its Turkish conquerors. The foreign oppressor stubbornly refused to recognize the right of the Cypriot people to rule their own destiny, he said.
He noted that despite the peaceful protests, demonstrations and manifestations of the Cypriots, "the Hellenism of Cyprus is intensifying its peaceful struggle for national vindication and freedom. To the call of EOKA, thousands of young and young people, men and women, middle-aged and elderly people, worthy offspring of the Greek Orthodox race" with the aim and desire for the union of Cyprus with mother Greece.
In his speech, the Commissioner of the Presidency also said that we are inspired by the ideals of our heroes and we draw strength from the values highlighted by the national liberation struggle of 55 59 and we preserve the necessary lessons as an inexhaustible source of moral strength.
The messages of the 55-59 struggle, the Commissioner said, acquire for all of us a decisive importance, which we do not have the right to ignore or disregard and this is our historical debt to all the heroes and to the fallen and missing of Sotiras who paid a heavy blood toll in the effort to repel the Turkish invasion.
Source: KYPE
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