CYPRUS ISSUE: THE BIGGEST SECRET REVEALED
ERKK candidate for the European Parliament Elections 2024
Cyprus issue: biggest secret revealed
Interview
The interview with Mr. Nicolaos Khovrin Komnenos (Νικόλαος Χωβρήν Κομνηνός), the General Secretary of the United Cyprus Republican Party, and its candidate for the European Parliament Elections 2024.
Q: Mr. General Secretary, the United Cyprus Republican Party recently sent a letter to the President of the Republic of Cyprus with a proposal of ERKK to be represented in the Cyprus Group. What is a background of this proposal?
A: First of all under the Cyprus Protocol Law of 1996 (59 (I)/1996) our political party officials, myself included, rank twelve in the Cyprus state hierarchy. So under all circumstances we should be inside the Cyprus Group or in fact any other group on the Cyprus issue. Secondly we call for a totally new and different approach to the Cyprus issue and in particular when such new approach is not on the agenda of the existing actors at all.
Q: Mr. General Secretary, please give our audience some more details about ERKK new approach to the Cyprus issue.
A: It is becoming clear on the basis of the recently revealed documents that Cypriots, speaking various languages, wrongfully became subjects of social engineering by external forces long before 1974 and tragically enough stay so to this very day. Internationally wrongful acts were committed before, on and after the events of 1974 which led to the present status quo. Such acts must be exposed if solution for the people of Cyprus to be found.
Q: Mr. General Secretary, please put some lights on these documents and why they were not in the public domain before?
A: We are talking about top secret documents which are routinely declassified dozens of years after they were created or about after 30 or 40 years as in our case. Let me give you two leading examples. On the 19th of July, 1974, the Joint Intelligence Committee had informed the British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan’s Private Secretary of their expectation of an invasion “in the next few days”. This fact comes out of the declassified document from British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. On the 14th of August, 1974 Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State and Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs said that [quote] There is no American reason why the Turks should not have one-third of Cyprus [unquote]. This fact comes out of the declassified document from the White House.
Q: Mr. General Secretary, these documents are conclusive evidence that both the United Kingdom and the United States of America knew in advance about the invasion of 1974, didn't they?
A: Not only. These documents are the evidence of complicity of both states. And in case of the United Kingdom it is also the evidence that the British Government failed to protect the interests of Commonwealth citizens of Cyprus. All in all these were clearly internationally wrongful acts and the President of Cyprus should, in the absence of a prompt and effective amicable settlement, immediately bring both the U.K. and the U.S.A. before the International Court of Justice for reparations.
Q: Mr. General Secretary, and what is the role of Turkey and Greece?
A: There are also documents that Greek pogrom in Istanbul and riots in Cyprus of 1955 and 1958 were directed by Fatin Zorlu, the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, but again under the knowledge of at least the United Kingdom. That is why we use the term social engineering. So Turkey was most probably a proxy of the U.K. and the U.S.A. in the Cyprus affair. As one famous historian and ex-British diplomat put “it is little wonder that the seeds of Cyprus’ dismemberment in 1974 were sown by Britain in the early fifties. It was the cynically conceived tripartite conference in September 1955 that not only bedevilled Greek-Turkish relations until today, but which set the tone for the dismemberment of Cyprus, so subtly engineered by Henry Kissinger in 1974”. The position of Greece is apparently not to declassify the documents as yet.
Q: Mr. General Secretary, from what you have mentioned it is clear that major powers, U.S.A. in particular, were preoccupied with Cyprus. What for?
A: History and documents to be declassified in the future would give a clear answer to your question. For now I would like to mention Dr. Henry A. Kissinger again who revealed in his book Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy of 1959 that [quote] for the foreseeable future we should be able to count on […] Cyprus or Libya as staging areas for the Middle East, and on Great Britain as a staging area for Europe [unquote]. And then I mention official records of the debate in the British Parliament on 14 February 1962 on the subject of Nuclear Weapons in Cyprus. When asked by Mr. Kelley if he [the Minister of Defense] will give an assurance that no nuclear bases will be established in Cyprus without the full approval of the Cypriot Government, Mr. Watkinson, the British Minister of Defense, replied on the record that [quote] for some years we have based in Cyprus, in support of CENTC, bomber aircraft[s] which are capable of delivering nuclear weapons. The aircraft[s] are deployed in one of the Sovereign Base Areas and no question of seeking approval arises [unquote]. The Republic of Cyprus being non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons of 1968 is under duty not to receive nuclear weapons and under duty to oppose any transfer of nuclear weapons by nuclear-weapon State Parties.
Q: Mr. General Secretary, the facts you mentioned are truly revealing. But what value does this information carry for an ordinary Cypriots?
A: From my point of view the unfolding tragic events in Gaza would not be possible without military build-up in Cyprus. More. The risk of escalation in the whole Middle East would be zero should Cyprus was free of foreign troops. So all of the Cypriots from all social quarters became hostages of the situation. It is not a time for complacency. It is time to listen and to join the new political forces like ERKK and to generate together a totally new approach to the Cyprus issue.
[End of the interview]
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