PRESIDENT – REMEMBRANCE DAY

President of the Republic Demetris Christofias has said that sixty six years after the end of the Second World War, the people of Cyprus are still struggling to liberate and reunite their country.

Addressing a ceremony in the honour of Remembrance Day, organized by the Cyprus World War II Veterans Association, Christofias noted that despite difficulties and obstacles in our way, we have patience and continue to struggle with a view to achieve a viable and functional settlement, that will terminate the occupation and reunite out homeland and our people.

He stressed that the settlement must restore human rights of all the people of Cyprus and must be based on the international and the European law.

Christofias said that all political parties must give the message to the people of Cyprus and the international community that Cyprus can and must reunite on the basis of a bizonal, bicommunal federation, with political equality, as defined by UN Security Council resolutions, with a single sovereignty, a single citizenship and a single international personality.

Christofias also stressed that it is our obligation to remember and honour those who struggled and sacrificed themselves for the universal ideals of freedom, democracy and human dignity, contrary to the scourge of Hitlers fascism and expansionism.