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"en.20101122.21.1-208"2
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"Madam President, I should like to complain about the miserable behaviour on the part of the secretariat of the Committee of the Regions in connection with a photography exhibition being organised by the exiled Municipality of Kyrenia, which is presently occupied by Turkish urban troops in Cyprus.
The photographs on display graphically illustrate the destruction of ecclesiastical and other monuments belonging to Kyrenia’s three-thousand year history. This destruction had an obvious purpose: to remove all evidence that this town was inhabited by people of Greek culture and the Christian faith. People who were expelled from their homes by force have managed, even though uprooted as refugees, to put roots down in Kyrenia 36 years later.
This exhibition was due to be opened by the Secretary General of the Committee of the Regions, who ultimately failed to appear under pressure from the Turkish occupying forces, because the exhibition refers to the invasion of Cyprus by Turkey in 1974 and to the destruction of its cultural heritage by the invading forces. In fact, the secretariat of the Committee of the Regions asked that this exhibition be taken down. I condemn this unacceptable behaviour."@en1
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