https://cyprus-mail.com/2022/07/24/new-settlement-proposal-launched/
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...glancing through it, i still don't understand what the ballot would look like at the polling booth.
...certainly don't like the flag that is proposed. Cyprus has a flag, there is more reason to keep it than to change it. Let's remember who we are, then as now a loving people who as Cypriots never were "Greeks" or "Turks" but something quite different as Greeks or (read: and) Turks. Let's not forget who were murdered or disappeared. They were not the extremists with their mythic dogmas that died fighting each other for the most part; unarmed, or more reasoned were their victims. I am not ashamed of this Flag, none of 'us' should be, either. It is what Cypriots recognise as "belonging" to them. It is the most powerful tool we have, as a matter of fact, if we are willing to stand under it, despite those who treat it as a rag, in enosis you might say; Cypriots giving it a Cypriot meaning.
Indeed it is a good first step; recognising above all that as Individuals, everyone has the same Basic Human Rights, where as equals we have the same responsibilities toward each other, (and, as a Human race). As such, within such a State, (a BBF), such a People will express themselves beyond the Individual as Persons, having as Constituencies Liberty as well, demonstrating their own capacity of self-representation; as a majority, of respect and recognition toward the minorities living among them.
...i am hopeful that such notions will bring an end to the Problem which grows far beyond these island's shores, (Turkey for example, needing Constitutional reform has never been more divided.) (Dare i say Israel, Syria, Libya, and Iraq) and which i fear as a problem among many problems will divide the Ukraine, for "Russianness" or "Ukrainianness", having no (other) solution to emulate or to hold in high esteem.
...Cyprus has a National Anthem, hidden in a drawer somewhere; wish i knew it's lyrics.
cheers. (good luck)
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