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Homelands are not liberated with hollow patriotic words, the DISY President said today, Averof Neophytou, noting that the only way is that of prudence, wisdom, national unity and support for the efforts of the President of the Republic and the Foreign Minister "through the right policy of Confidence Building Measures".
In off-text references, in his commemorative speech for the annual memorial service of the heroes Michalakis and Andreas Makridis and their father Nikos Makridis, held in Limassol, Averof Neophytou said that "we do not need memorial speeches to praise with our poor words and our most meager writings, the heroism of some who with their sacrifice deservedly earned a place in the pantheon of heroes."
"But memorial speeches are needed to review the past, to evaluate the present, with seriousness, national responsibility and prudence," he said, indicating that it is necessary "with a patriotic realism to prescribe the future for our country."
Looking back to the past, he continued, we all remember that when Hellenism was united, we recorded pages of glorious history and when, unfortunately, the scourge of national discord came between us, we mourned national misfortunes.
Saying that one of these national calamities we have been experiencing since 1974 "with almost half of our country enslaved, with generations of refugees having died in exile, without completing their vision of living again in a united homeland", the DISY President stressed that "it is here that we need to evaluate the present".
"Homelands are not liberated with hollow patriotic words, especially when it is a conscious choice of the entire Cypriot Hellenism that we will seek a solution to the Cyprus problem through negotiations," he added.
The only way, he stressed, "is the way of prudence and prudence, of national unity and we should all support the efforts of the President of Cyprus and the new Foreign Minister, who are proposing to save Varosha in order to save our country, through the correct policy of the MEAs, in order to break the Turkish intransigence".
Our heroes Michalakis and Andreas and all those who gave their lives were not sacrificed to live the tragedy of occupation today, he said. Neophytou, adding that "we know, recognize and record Turkey's provocativeness and it is for this reason that correct and wise manipulations are needed to break the deadlocks in order to finally live in a reunited homeland."
Source: CNA
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