The President of the Republic is ready to participate in an honest and sincere dialogue for a just and viable solution, The Deputy Minister to the President Kyriakos Kousios said, adding that at the same time efforts are continuing to protect the enclosed area of Famagusta city and return it to its legitimate inhabitants.
In his address at the presentation of the book "Lost Expectations" by Andreas Morphitis, held on Wednesday evening at the Cultural Centre of Famagusta Municipality in Dherynia, Mr Kousios referred to Famagusta to note that "the city of Famagusta may have been silent for 48 years, but we are not silent. We claim our right, even though we know very well that we have a ruthless conqueror against us", adding that "Turkey not only demonstrates the same intransigent attitude and provocatively aggressive behaviour, but also attempts to impose new deadlines".
President Nicos Anastasiades and his government, he continued, "oppose these new challenges with all means, using international law and Cyprus' position in the European Union and the UN. In this direction, the President of the Republic is ready to engage in an honest and sincere dialogue for a just, workable and therefore viable solution."
He also said that "we continue our strong efforts to protect the enclosed area of the city of Famagusta and return it to its legitimate inhabitants, on the basis of the UN Security Council resolutions.
Referring to the book by Andreas Morphitis, the Deputy Minister said that "the problem of his semi-occupied homeland is always at the centre of the author's thoughts, concerns and reflections, with particular and pertinent references to both the onslaught of migratory waves from Turkey and the attempted colonisation of his hometown Famagusta. The author deals in his book with a wide range of issues, inextricably intertwined with the survival of Cypriot Hellenism".
At the same time, he continued, Andreas Morfitis "deals, among other things, with burning issues that concern our country, such as the need to fight corruption, the inadequate controls on the movement of citizens at the roadblocks that threaten the security of the country, the migratory burden, the invasion that Cyprus is essentially experiencing, the practice of exploitation of migration by Turkey and its conscious effort to alter the demography of the island".
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