BRITISH SHADOW MINISTER – CYPRUS PROBLEM

British Shadow Minister for Europe Wayne David has reiterated the Labour Party’s commitment to a re-united, bi-zonal, bi-communal, federal, Cyprus, pledging that his party was “full square” behind the Republic of Cyprus’s struggle for reunification of the island.

According to a press release issued by the National Federation of Cypriots in the UK, speaking at an event organised on Sunday jointly by the Labour Cypriot Society, the Greek Cypriot Brotherhood, AKEL in Britain and EDEK UK, under the auspices of the National Federation of Cypriots in the UK, at Labour’s annual party conference in Liverpool, David said: “I reaffirm the Labour Party’s full-square commitment to the reunification of the island, in a solution achieved by Cypriots themselves. The challenge for all politicians is to bring about the unity of the island that its indigenous people desire.“

“Meaningful discussions have taken place and it is incumbent upon us to see that the negotiating environment is right. We will do everything that we can, as a Labour Party, to see that the unity is made real before too long,” he added.