"Just as the Greek-Cypriot preoccupation was that Cyprus should
be a Greek-Cypriot state, with a protected Turkish-Cypriot minority, the
Turkish-Cypriot preoccupation was to defeat any such effort and to maintain
the partnership concept, which in their opinion the Zürich Agreement created
between the two communities. The conflict, therefore, was a conflict
of principle and for that principle both sides were prepared to go on arguing
and even, if need be, to fight, rather than compromise. The same principle
is still on conflict today, though a federal solution has been accepted
-and though a federation is nothing more than a constitutional partnership
of states, provinces or cantons which make up the federation." |
Glafcos
Clerides,
Former Greek-Cypriot leader and the President of the
'Republic of Cyprus' , in his book "Cyprus: My Deposition",
Vol.3, p.105. |
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