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"en.20041116.9.2-084"2
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the frustration about the Greek Cypriot rejection of the Annan plan is ongoing. After all, today, every European can see for himself how the Union denies its own principles by giving a non-European country, in this case Turkey, a prospect of joining the EU, while that state’s armed forces are occupying part of the territory of a current Member State, Cyprus. That is why it was crucial for the Annan plan to be approved, by hook or by crook, and the Greek Cypriots were intimidated from all quarters in order to accept this half-hearted proposal. That is also why the Turkish Cypriots are being indulged so much by the European policy makers today. However, this turns the world on its head.
Without going into exhaustive detail, I should like to remind you briefly of the reasons why the Greek Cypriots rejected this plan. Indeed, the Annan plan authorised the Turkish invasion of 1974, as well as the attendant war crimes. According to that plan, the Turkish occupying forces would be allowed to stay on Cyprus and retain the right to carry out military exercises on Cypriot soil. The military border would be perpetuated and armed border crossing points would continue to carry out passport control. The Turkish Cypriots would continue to live under Turkish occupation. Their poor economic situation is attributable less to an embargo by the Greek population than to the corrupt Turkish economic system
. If the Annan plan had been ratified, the more than one hundred thousand Turkish colonists who, in the wake of the ‘Attila’ operation, were forced by their government in Ankara to move to Cyprus in order to continue the ethnic cleansing, would remain on the island.
Financial support to the Turkish Cypriots – who, I sincerely hope, will, before too long, be reunited with the Greek Cypriots in an independent Cyprus without foreign occupation – must therefore go hand in hand with a number of strict conditions, first among them being the removal of Turkish military occupation. This support should under no circumstances be seen as a reward for a politically correct vote in a referendum."@en1
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