Dear friends,
It is with great joy and pleasure that as EDON we are here to make a short presentation of the first results of the bicommunal #reunite_cy programme. This programme was jointly decided and co-organized together the Youth Organization of CTP, within the framework of our activities to promote rapprochement.
All these years EDON has always had the solution of the Cyprus problem as our first and foremost priority. For us, the Cyprus problem is a problem of invasion and occupation, but at the same time it is also a problem regarding the normalization of the relations between the two communities.
We consider that the first aspect can and must be resolved through intercommunal talks with the achievement of a bizonal, bicommunal federal solution with political equality as set out in the UN texts and for a united single state with a single sovereignty, a single citizenship and a single international personality. We are working for a successful outcome of the talks between the leaders of the two communities within this framework of a solution.
The second aspect, regarding the relations between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, can and must improve the future of Cyprus, that is to say the young generation. To implement the desired solution successfully, we need at the same time to understand the fears, worries and concerns of each other. We need to break the ice that was created between us due to the partition.
With this concrete initiative, we want to hope that we too will make our own contribution for the peaceful future we envisage; the vision that together Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot progressive youths will resist and stand up to imperialism and its tools, nationalism and chauvinism.
Together, we are struggling to become the generation of reunification.
9th September 2016