The President of the Republic Mr.Nikos Christodoulides attended tonight a ceremony in honour of those who took the Oath of Athens on March 7, 1953.
The event took place at the War Museum of Athens and was co-organised by the EOKA Historical Memory Council '55-'59, the EOKA Fighters' Associations '55-'59, THE Foundation for the Liberation Struggle '55-'59, the EOKA Fighters' Hall, the General Georgios Grivas Digenis Foundation, Athens, and the House of Cyprus.
During the event, the President of the Republic presented honorary plaques to the families of those who pledged the Oath of Athens, while in his address he said, among other things, that the passion for freedom "was unquenchable among the Greeks of Cyprus.
And since their universal human demand for freedom was not satisfied by the colonial Empire, and since they had exhausted all peaceful ways of claiming it, it had begun to appear as an inevitable option to take up arms in order to throw off the British yoke.
The meeting of 7 March 1953 and the oath of the 12, like the creation of the Society of Friends in Odessa for the Greek Revolution of 1821, signalled the choice of the armed national liberation struggle and the subsequent establishment of EOKA".
The event was also addressed by the President of SIMAE Mr. Andreas Maimaridis, the member of the Board of Directors of SIMAE Mr. Dimitris Taliadoros and the President of the Foundation of the EOKA '55-'59 Liberation Struggle Foundation Mr. Haris Alexandrou.
(PM/IK)
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