Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-04-21-Speech-3-036"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-04-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Cyprus2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040421.1.3-036"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-04-21-Speech-3-0372
lpv:speaker	lp:Giorgos Katiforis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 member; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 vice-chair; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, first of all I should like to say that I am sorry that Commissioner Verheugen has left. Obviously he had some other pressing business. I endorse everything Commissioner Verheugen said and I share his disappointment on this issue, because he really was one of the protagonists, who worked very hard to bring things to maturity, to the point at which we can initiate material reconciliation between the Greeks and Turks in Cyprus. When I was young, I suffered in my own country from the suppression of the freedom of the press and I feel pain and shame that today Greeks seeking their freedom are depriving Commissioner Verheugen of the right to address them and try to persuade them of what he considers to be right, he who fought so hard for things to reach a satisfactory situation. We want a yes vote. Politicians in Greece, all of them, have said that they want a yes vote, with Mr Papandreou leading the way. We want the guarantees heard here to be given with emphasis, but the greatest guarantee lies in changing the global situation. The Cypriots divided because they were divided by a now bankrupt colonial regime, because they were divided by the cold war. These no longer exist. The European Union has refuted all this and is inviting them into its fold so that they can live differently. Not in order to keep them divided. The greatest guarantee is within and they must bring it forth from within themselves. I shall end by reminding my compatriots in Cyprus of the words of the great Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos, who said that the every nation seals its own fate and that whatever it does on its own whim is one less thing for its enemy to do."@en1

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