The President of the Republic Mr.Nicos Anastasiades, accompanied by his wife Mrs.Andri Anastasiades, visited today the premises of RIK, where he attended the event for the cutting of the New Year's cake.
During the event, a video was shown in which colleagues and members of his family spoke about him.
Afterwards, the President of the Republic thanked the President, members, managers, journalists and colleagues of RIK.
In his brief greeting, President Anastasiades said, among other things, that "I am proud and honored because in the ten years of my presidency I will not find a journalist or executive or person involved in the events of RIK who will say that there was ever any interference by me in what RIK objectively presents, even if many times I thought or my colleagues thought that in their opinion the presentation was probably not objective".
Addressing the staff of RIK, the President added that "I congratulate you for the work you are doing. I am sure that you are working hard to ensure that RIK emerges as a new public, objective television that does not take into account who is in power or who is in opposition and presents, as it should, the facts objectively. Always make progress. Your progress will of course contribute, through objectivity and presentation always on the basis of the freedom that must distinguish the opinion of journalists, to help ensure that events are presented objectively. The people should be informed as they should be informed so that they can make the right decisions.
President Anastasiades also expressed "warmest wishes to our homeland before and above all, to see better days than the ones we have fought and struggled for decades to achieve through painful concessions and compromises a reunited, free homeland far from armies of occupation, rights of intervention and generally guaranteed human rights for all citizens, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots without exception, in order to achieve a real peace, prosperity and future for this small country that is working miracles thanks to the sacrifices of our people."
Finally, he told the RIK staff that "I will remember you as close and dear colleagues, even those who had a different opinion, and it was their absolute right. We live in a democracy that we want to honour by works and not by words."
(PM/EP/EHR)
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