Monday, August 15, 2011

Connecting the dots for Cyprus

In the past I argued about the need for Cypriots to think out of the box. A graphical representation of the Cyprus puzzle is given here. Try to connect the nine dots using four straight lines without lifting the pencil from the paper.

One might say that the nine dots represent:
  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) & 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 & 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.
Have I missed anything?

Please connect the nine dots using four straight lines without lifting the pencil from the paper. Solving the Cyprus issue is as simple (or complicated) as that!

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As either unitary state or federation solutions are discussed as replacements to Cyprus' 1960 and Turkey's 1923 unworkable constitutions, should we abide by "if a right is a right too many for Turkey's Kurdish community (circa 23% of population) then that right is a right too many for Cyprus' tCypriot community too (circa 15%), and vice versa." Is the adoption of this fair logic the catalyst to securing just solutions for both UN countries.