Why do Cypriot Greeks reject “peace” plans? - IANS, University of Edinburgh

May 26, 2016
By Lambros George Kaoullas (Staff Writer)

24th April marked twelve years since Cypriot Greeks rejected in a referendum, by an overwhelming 76% margin, the UN-sponsored “Annan Plan”. By contrast, 65% of Cypriot Turks with Turkish settlers in the occupied north accepted the plan in a separate referendum.

This rejection by Cypriot Greeks must be startlingly puzzling to a foreign observer. I can even picture an annoyed reaction in my mind: Wait a minute!

Towards “regime change” in Cyprus? - DEFEND DEMOCRACY PRESS

06/05/2016

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos

It is usual in European politics those years, for people to vote one thing and their leaders to do another. This is what happened in many occasions, from the French referendum of 2005 on the European “constitution” till the Greek referendum of 2015, not to mention pre-electoral promises never fulfilled.

But there are also a few exceptions, when a leader cannot or does not want to go against the will of the voters. Such an exception was the referendum on Cyprus in 2004, when the population voted overwhelmingly to reject the Annan plan for the “reunification” of the island.

Many readers may think that what is happening in Cyprus, a small member-state of EU in Eastern Mediterranean, is of rather marginal importance. This is what mainstream media are implying by their (non) reporting on the real parameters of the Cyprus question. But, in reality, the opposite is true. Cyprus, in spite of its magnitude, is too important to speak much of it!

Greece can only do so much

YES, if

I am a sworn 'NO' voter to any apartheid solution that legitimizes the results of an illegal invasion, division, ethnic cleansing, occupation, and demographic alteration of such a precious land with millenniums non-stop, recorded, either purely Christian and/or Greek presence for over three millenniums or overwhelmingly Greek-Christian for the last 400 years.

However, I will vote 'YES' in the next Cyprus referendum for the solution the leaders of the majority Greek Cypriot and minority Turkish Cypriot communities agree, UPON THIS CONDITION:

Unless the British undertake their share of responsibility I am afraid things will get messy. The period of Parasitic Pontiuspilatism is over.

There is a possinility they will again take us to racist referenda. Becauseof incompetence or "realities", does it matter really? Make up your mind now. To say NO. To any plan. Because 'bizonality' is exclusively for idiots. Let us give an even more massive response to the scheming British. Let us make the 76% look like a small and insignificant number. 

My referendum

The solution in Cyprus can only be a unitary state, without geographical division based on race, without 1960's apartheid (rule of the minority over the majority, and separation based on race), without foreign intervention rights and either "Turkey" 's or Britain's colonial logic. In essence, fixing the 1960 constitution is the only way out. Not replacing it.