With assertive realism, determination, perseverance, The effort for the reunification of Cyprus must continue, said former Foreign Minister and presidential candidate Nikos Christodoulides. He was speaking at the annual memorial service of resistance hero Nikos Christos Solomos in his hometown of Pachyammos.
What is needed at this time, he continued. Christodoulides, more than ever before, is the achievement of conditions of prudence and unanimity... so that we manage to meet the challenges of the times and fight to achieve the common goal, which cannot be other than the liberation of the homeland and its freedom from the barbed wire of occupation.
Sterile and irrelevant confrontations, public negotiation between us, dismissive and nihilistic discourse to serve other purposes cannot have a place in public dialogue and do not contribute, he concluded, to the effort, which must be common to counter Turkish provocativeness, for the liberation of our homeland.
Solomou was assassinated on 16 July 1974 by coup plotters along with three other fellow fighters in Kolossi. After the memorial service in the church of St. Raphael Pachyammos, a service was held at the statue of the hero in the church's precinct. The police philharmonic band paid tribute and wreaths were laid.
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