Cyprus PIO: News Update in English, 98-08-07

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From: The Republic of Cyprus Press and Information Office Server at <http://www.pio.gov.cy/>

News Update

Friday, 07/08/98

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• [01] AHEPA calls on the US government to assume responsibility for Cyprus

[01] AHEPA calls on the US government to assume responsibility for Cyprus

In a resolution, approved unanimously yesterday during the 76th annual congress of the organisation in Florida, AHEPA puts the blame on the US for the failure of negotiations for a Cyprus settlement.

Stating that "negotiations have failed to produce a settlement because of the faulty approach adopted by the US that Cyprus is a traditional diplomatic problem where 'meet - in -the -middle' negotiations can solve it", the resolution calls on the American government to acknowledge that the "US bears a national responsibility for the Cyprus tragedy".

Moreover the resolution quotes Ambassador Holbrooke's words describing US actions in 1974 in Cyprus as "shameful" and makes reference to State Department's desk officer for Cyprus in 1974 who clearly said that "a Cyprus solution is possible if the US steps up its responsibilities and remembers its own guilt".

Reminding the US involvement in the 1974 tragic events in Cyprus, AHEPA calls on the US administration to help restore the "status quo and the rule of law as it applied before Turkey's 1974 illegal invasion".

It also calls upon the US "to issue a clear statement, that pending demilitarisation, the government of Cyprus has a sovereign right to self - defence" and demands the US to take action to bring about the removal of all illegal Turkish settlers from Cyprus and the restoration of the churches illegally converted to mosques in violation of the 1949 Geneva Convention.

From the Republic of Cyprus Press and Information Office (PIO) Server at http://www.pio.gov.cy/

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