Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Connecting the dots for Cyprus ... a clue!

Two weeks ago, on August 15, I presented the graphical depiction of the Cyprus puzzle as a set of nine dots asking you to try to connect the nine dots using four straight lines without lifting the pencil from the paper. I suggested that each of the nine dots could stand for:

  1. The sizable section of tCypriot society that genuinely wants Turkey out of a united Cyprus.
  2. That gCypriots always negotiated in good faith and based on just and universal principles.
  3. Cyprus (RoC) being a very successful state, both democratically and economically.
  4. Cyprus being a member of the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU).
  5. Turkey's blatant violations of UN resolutions, as well as her own obligations stemming from 1960.
  6. The European Court of Human Rights' decisions favoring gCypriots and the RoC.
  7. Turkey's violation of the Geneva Conventions with her colonization policies.
  8. The west's losing confidence in Turkey's desire to being a solid partner of the west.
  9. Cyprus' new role as an energy route for the EU and potentially a huge energy source as well.

Today I provide a clue and urge you to solve the Cyprus puzzle. No one else but Cypriots will in the end solve it. If you feel otherwise you best rethink as you may be in this matter criminally naive.

Can you solve it now?

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