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LET US STAND UP FOR OUR WILL TO FIND A ‘SOLUTION’ · penna!

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: We must once again demonstrate our strong determination for a solution.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: We must sit down at the negotiating table with courage, with self confidence, without drowning in a sea of victimhood.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: Will there be yet another disappointment?
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: What kind of breakthrough could there possibly be beyond the uncertainty, insecurity, and unknowns we are experiencing?
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Disappointment is the very name of this system we live in.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: The current status quo and lack of resolution offer no hope for the future.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: There can be no salvation for us other than engaging with the world, integrating with the international community.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: To become a subject, just look.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: The issue has become so provincialized that motions to change the name are being tabled in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: What saddens me even more are the messages circulating from sources close to the United Nations.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: They point the finger at Ankara, as if it were the sole decision maker on our behalf, as if there were a negotiating table between the Greek Cypriot leadership and Ankara.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: We cannot accept this.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: We must also confront that deep contradiction at the heart of the Cyprus issue.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: We want a political solution that will open us up to the world, to the future, and to equality, what is rightfully ours.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yet for some reason we refuse to accept this.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: Others too have certain rights and certain demands.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: Whilst we rightly seek to reclaim whatever has been taken from us, we hesitate to return what we have taken from others, not even all of it, but even just a part of it.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: We reckon with our own fears, acknowledge our own pain, feel our own deprivations, yet we refuse to accept that others might have fears distinct from our own.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: We are, as it were, locked into half the island.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: At its very core, this lock has two keys.
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  SPEAKER_00: One is in the hands of the Greek Cypriots, the other in those of the Turkish Cypriots.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: This lock cannot be opened with just one key.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: It will never open.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: Neither side can take a step towards that future where they will realize their own rights without the other side acknowledging the other's rights.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: Turkish Cypriots had recently lost their key to Turkey.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: The community sent a strong message in the elections.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yet there are still those who do not understand.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: We must explain.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: Formulas implying no solution have not been accepted.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: The community has rejected them.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: We must make those who show no respect for our will respect us.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_00: Remember when I said two keys at the very heart of the matter?
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: Perhaps that is the core of it, but the key ring is full.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, there is a second lock on us.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: The keys lie with Turkey, Greece, the UK, and the European Union.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: So one lock upon another.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: That is why the European Union's role is so crucial in this process.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: It appears the United Nations Secretary General will present a new framework for negotiations to the leaders and ask, are you ready to negotiate?
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: In a sense, a new strategic plan, a three stage solution.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: A model in which communities will experience the advantages of a federal solution at every stage, see the difference, and come to terms with the new Cyprus.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: For example, as direct flights to Urkhan commence, Varosha will be returned to its rightful owners.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: Alongside international funding, a compensation fund will be established to address the property issue.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: Whilst some land returns take place, all citizens of the TRNC will, for instance, become European Union citizens.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: To the question Are you ready for talks?
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  SPEAKER_00: We must answer yes without hesitation.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: This is also what the strong will that has emerged in the north of Cyprus following the election demands.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_00: For this we must make our voices heard everywhere.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: We need a solution to connect with the world to a new Cyprus, to a shared homeland, a shared future, to the world.