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by **brother** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:36 pm

‘We’re strangling the Turkish Cypriots with love’
By Jean Christou

PRESIDENT Tassos Papdopoulos said yesterday that, far from impeding the Turkish Cypriots, his government was showering them love and generosity.

Speaking on his return from an official trip to Malta, he was asked to comment on statements by Turkish Cypriot ‘Prime Minister” Mehmet Ali Talat that he was trying to “strangle” the Turkish Cypriots economically.

“If we are strangling them, then we are strangling them with love,” he said. “We have made the Turkish Cypriots citizens of Europe exclusively through our efforts and without them having had to pay any price or put in any effort themselves for that.”

He also commented on Talat’s statement that the initiative for a solution to the Cyprus problem now fell on him, Tassos Papadopoulos. “Then he (Talat) knows more than me,” the President responded.

Papadopoulos said that although the government was under a lot of pressure to put in writing the changes it wanted to the Annan plan, it would not be in the interests of the Greek Cypriot side to do so. He said this was something that “others” wanted.

However, he said the government was looking into other ways that the talks could be resumed.

“Our firm position is that we are looking into the possibilities to resume talks. At present, according to official information from the UN, the Secretary-general has no such intention,” he said.

“But it would not be a right move on our part to submit a list of issues that we want changed in the Annan plan, and I stress the word ‘detailed’ because it would allow some people say that since they are asking for changes to so many issues, they do not want talks, and the 2003 scenario will begin again.”

Papadopoulos said he did not see why the Greek Cypriot side should accept something that served the interests of others, “if we believe that putting our views on the table would not be to our interest”.

“This would serve no useful purpose whatsoever other than starting a negotiation amongst ourselves through the press without any substantial or practical result,” he added.

Commenting on today’s parliamentary elections in the north, Papadopoulos said it would be useful to know whether the positions of the Turkish Cypriots would even register due to the amount of settlers that would be voting.
“The settlers constitute a majority and the Turkish Cypriots are a minority,” he said. “We express a lot of concern over this and we condemn the continuing planned influx of settlers from Turkey.”

Papadopoulos also said he had not seen any change in the position of the Turkish Cypriot side recently, and didn’t expect any as a result of the election.

by **brother** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:39 pm

hahahaha...hahahahah...hahahah...i am going to faint i am laughing so hard, are you guys in the south sure that tassos is not going senile, first he says no tc were killed in 1974 and now he reckons he is strangling us with love...hahahahah....hahahahah...that is so funny :lol:

by **turkcyp** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:43 pm

brother wrote:hahahaha...hahahahah...hahahah...i am going to faint i am laughing so hard, are you guys in the south sure that tassos is not going senile, first he says no tc were killed in 1974 and now he reckons he is strangling us with love...hahahahah....hahahahah...that is so funny

And you knows what is more funny.....

He is serious about all these. i think he trully believes in what he says....

by **brother** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:45 pm

o.k now i have pissed myself...hahahah...hahahaha...hahahaha...stop it i can't breath anymore. :lol:

by **Saint Jimmy** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:00 pm

brother wrote:senile

He doesn't believe them though, don't underestimate the man...
He's cunning as a fox, and he knows what he's doing.
I just wish he either wasn't, or didn't.

by **brother** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:03 pm

o.k jimmy,
tell me what you think he is doing making these sort of statements apart from thinking he is the smartest man in the world and everyone else is not only blind but stupid aswell, but truely if you have an idea behind why he makes these statements i would really love to hear them.

by **Saint Jimmy** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:05 pm

No brother, I was talking about this one:
''He is serious about all these. i think he trully believes in what he says...''

Well, why he made the statement is obvious: he is proposing a bi-communal orgy :lol:

by **brother** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:08 pm

hahahahah....hahahahah....hahahahah..stop it you guys i am now firmly en route to getting a headache from this banter, orgy with tassos...hahahahah....hahahahaha....hahahahha :lol: