‘The Correct Yes’ is great but late

I have just read and re-read a number of times, the English version of ‘The Proposal Of ‘The Correct Yes’’ issued by the Movement for Freedom and Justice in Cyprus.

To those who put this document together I say ‘bravo’. Everything in this document makes extremely good sense – it is not alarmist. Having checked out in some depth the references and implications as stated I find the document alarmingly honest.

The writers display, by their intellect and common sense, a new but logical direction in thinking to the solution of the Cyprus Problem, vastly different to the direction in which we have been lead over the years and the direction that the current Government seems to be sailing in at the moment.
I must, however, take issue with the contributors to this document.

1) In God’s name, why did you not get together sooner and publish this document years ago and publicise it so that the important principles which the document contains could be discussed widely and possibly included in an agenda for peace ?

2) You state that your movement is independent and above party politics. But, my friends, we all know that it is party politics which ends up feeding a government and determining in which direction it goes (not to mention all the outside influences as well – which are well known). What hope do you have as an NGO to change the course of determining the outcome to the official talks?

What Cyprus needs is a determined ‘yes’ to the right solution not another damp squib followed by more years of more damned words.

I have lived in this, my adopted country, for almost 25years and would not change one thing that I have found or experienced here other than my wish for peace between the two cultures.
How this is achieved, for better or for worse, is in the hands of politics.

Geoff Unsworth,
Paphos

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