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Ladies and gentlemen,
It was with deep sadness that we learned last week of the death of Andreas Angelidis, a prominent former member of the House of Representatives, who, with his presence on the parliamentary benches for almost two years, honoured the office of MP and with his high legal background, particularly in matters of public law, contributed from his own experience to the defence of the rule of law and good administration.
Andreas Angelides was born in Larnaca in 1946. After completing his high school studies, he attended the Law School and subsequently the School of Economics and Political Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Upon graduation from the Law School in 1971, he was entered in the Register of Lawyers and practiced the profession of lawyer for more than five decades, enriching the jurisprudence of administrative law with the cases he handled. He was a member of parliament and parliamentary representative of DIKO. He was a member of the Parliamentary Committees on Foreign Affairs, Legal Affairs, Monitoring of Public Expenditure Development Plans and Control of Public Expenditure, Institutions, Values and the Commissioner for Administration, as well as the Parliamentary Committee on Crime and the Fight against Drugs and Addictive Substances. He also served as a member of the Select Committee and the Parliamentary Select Committee and the Special Parliamentary Committee on Behaviour. He has also participated in several parliamentary missions abroad. In 2013 he joined the Civic Alliance.
Throughout his time in the Parliament, Andreas Angelides was distinguished for his calm, mild and moderate political speech, as well as for his patriotism and his commitment to the rights of the suffering Cypriot people, while even after his retirement from the parliamentary benches he continued to be a loyal friend of the Parliament and a valuable supporter, providing all assistance in connection with legislative work and contributing to the formulation of important jurisprudence on serious constitutional issues.
With the support of the Parliament, he published the valuable legal textbook on the codification of the general principles of administrative law, which contributed and continues to contribute to a deeper understanding of administrative law issues.
He continuously followed parliamentary events and wrote articles with pertinent comments on many issues of the Parliament.
He was also a member of the Association of Former Members of the Republic of Cyprus and fought for the success of the just demands of former members of parliament.
We express our sincere condolences to his family and friends.
We extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends.
Dear colleagues,
August 14 marks nineteen years since the greatest air tragedy since the crash of the Helios Airways plane in the mountainous area of Grammatikos, Attica, which claimed the lives of 121 people, including twenty-two children and six crew members.
Our thoughts are with the families of the victims, who continue to live with the unbearable pain of losing their loved ones and with countless unanswered "whys" regarding the responsibilities and omissions that led to the plane crash. The State and the State have a heavy duty to ensure that all measures are taken and all mechanisms are in place to ensure that such a tragedy does not happen again and that no more victims are mourned.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Memories awaken again today, sixty years after the Turkish Air Force for three consecutive days, on 7, 8 and 9 August 1964, with rockets, gunfire and napalm incendiary bombs carried out ruthless attacks against military and civilian targets, populated areas and civilians in the martyred land of Tilliria. There, as part of the implementation of plans for the Turkish expansionist policy, an enclave was created in the villages of Kokkina and Mansoura under the direct control of Turkish officers, which would facilitate the smuggling of weapons and soldiers and consequently the invasion of Turkey and the imposition of partition. The occupation by the Turks of strategically important heights around the Mansoura-Kokkin beachhead provoked a counterattack by the National Guard, which stood up and fought against the military superiority of the Turks.
Colleagues,
On 14 August 1974, a few hours after the failure of the negotiations in Geneva with the participation of the three guarantor powers and the Greek and Turkish Cypriot sides, the second phase of the Turkish invasion began. The Turkish military forces, in violation of the ceasefire and every rule of international legality, continued their advance into Cypriot territory.
During the new military operation, known as "Attila II", which lasted from 14 to 17 August, Turkish troops occupied most of the Morphou area to the west and most of Mesaoria, Karpasia and Famagusta to the east.
Overall Turkish invasion: 37% of Cypriot territory under Turkish occupation, forcible displacement of 200 000 Greek Cypriots from their ancestral homes, dead and missing.
I now call upon you to observe a minute's silence in memory of former Member of Parliament Andreas Angelides, the victims of the Helios air tragedy, as well as all the heroes and martyrs of our country who sacrificed for freedom and justice.
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