Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will pay a highly symbolic visit to Cyprus on Saturday (20/7) as it marks 50 years since the invasion of Attila.
He will be the first Greek Prime Minister to attend these commemorative events at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia.
He will initially have a private meeting with the President of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulidis at 19:45 and then at 20:30 he will speak, sending messages in all directions.
The Prime Minister’s visit takes place at a time when Turkey has raised its rhetorical provocations, while it is recalled that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will attend the occupied section on the same day.
The prime minister, who has repeatedly stated that he wishes to restart the talks on Cyprus, is expected to proceed with a historical review of the days of July 1974 that hurt Hellenism and bloodied and divided Cyprus, but also to ask for a fair solution always based on the resolutions and the decisions of the UN by inviting the two sides to sit at the dialogue table.
In complete coordination, Athens and Nicosia have launched a campaign to internationalize the Cypriot state, stressing that in 2024 an EU member country cannot be under occupation but also divided.
It is noted that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also considers the resumption of talks for the solution of the Cyprus issue to be his personal bet.
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