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Letters to Dominic Raab ahead of meeting on Cyprus in Geneva

From: National Federation of Cypriots in UK <enquiries@cypriotfederation.org.uk>Sent: 16 April 2021 13:28To: Cypriot Federation <pressenquiries@cypriotfederation.org.uk>Subject: Letters to Foreign Secretary Raab ahead of five-plus-one meeting on Cyprus in Geneva  Dear friends,Ahead of the upcoming 5+UN meeting on Cyprus in Geneva at the end of April, the National Federation of Cypriots in the UK has written to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab MP expressing hope that the talks will lead to ... Read More »

Bambos Charalambous MP question to Dominic Raab.

On Tuesday 2nd March, Bambos Charalambous MP, Enfield Southgate, asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to “confirm the Government’s commitment to a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation” as the basis for a solution to the Cyprus issue. The Foreign Secretary responded in the House of Commons, “that is of course the starting point”.  Later that afternoon, the British Government confirmed to the National Federation ... Read More »

The AFC Committee

The Committee Kyriacos Akathiotis (President) Antony Papantoniou (Vice-President) Andreas Papagiorgi (Secretary) Panikkos Papathomas (Treasurer) Harris Jordanou Andreas Makri Panikkos Marinou Harry Markos Lagi Pittas Website: www.actionforcyprus.org About Action for Cyprus (AFC) is a non-partisan organisation, set up in 1990, to widely publicise and highlight the injustice of Turkey’s invasion and occupation of nearly 40% of Cyprus in 1974 which killed ... Read More »

HOUSE OF COMMONS Press Release – DAVID BURROWES MP

David Burrowes takes first opportunity in Parliament to urge Foreign Secretary to make Cyprus a priority. During the Queen’s Speech Debate in Parliament on Monday, David Burrowes MP for Enfield Southgate took the first opportunity he could to raise the issue of Cyprus. He asked the Foreign Secretary Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP: My constituents are particularly interested in Cyprus. ... Read More »

Letter to The new leader of the Turkish Cypriot Community

7 May 2015 Mr Mustafa Akinci The new leader of the Turkish Cypriot Community Nicosia Cyprus Dear Mr Akinci We are a UK based non-party political action group, with UK Cypriot members, campaigning for the re-unification of Cyprus and the implementation of UN Resolutions and basic human rights to all Cypriots, regardless of religion or ethnicity. The peace loving people ... Read More »

Christopher Hitchens On Cyprus

We are all prisoners of knowledge. To know how Cyprus was betrayed, and to have studied the record of that betrayal, is to make oneself unhappy and to spoil, perhaps for ever, one’s pleasure for visiting one of the world’s most enchanting islands. Nothing will ever restore the looted treasures, the bereaved families, the plundered villages, the groves and hillsides ... Read More »

Anastasiades: Joint Community action Crucial

Minister of Interior Socrates Hasikos,  read a speech submitted by President Anastasiade at the unveiling of a monument for the Missing Persons in Potamia (a mixed village) . In the speech he  re-iterated that  joint action is needed in fact a requirement  to  help to increase understanding between the two communities in Cyprus and was  crucial for a  solution  to  the ... Read More »

Famagusta (Varosha) The ECOCITY Project

What’s the story? Any reopening of the deserted district of Famagusta – Varosha, in the future gives  a unique opportunity to learn from history and rebuild for a better future.  The risks are great but with rebuilding Varosha with the two Cypriot communities both Greek & Turkish while promoting  peaceful coexistence within an “eco­city”, this  the project aims at environmental ... Read More »

Remember the Greek Holocausts

Source: g20humanrights.com A little background information: In 1994, May 19 was selected by the Greek parliament as the day to commemorate the Pontian Greek Genocide by the Turks. The Pontic Genocide is one of the darkest moments in history not only for Greeks, but also for mankind. The Genocide vanished from its ancestral and historic homeland in Pontus a culturally vibrant and unique part of the Greek population that had been fighting for its survival for about 3,000 ... Read More »

Staff emails of Permanent Representation of Cyprus at EU

This is a list of the Staff of the Permanent Representation of Cyprus to the EU. The site gathers information relating to the activities of the Permanent Representation and Cyprus in general in relation to the EU institutions, especially developments in Brussels. The list below is given with emails so that you can easily contact them. The site is here: Permanent ... Read More »