Resolution on the British bases in Cyprus
The United Democratic Youth Organisation (EDON) along with hundreds of youngsters that gathered today, 25 January 2015, outside the British Bases at the top of Troodos, stress their demand for instant termination of the presence of the British Bases in Cyprus.
- The presence of the British military bases in our country offends the sovereign rights of the Republic of Cyprus. The Treaty of Establishment is a result of compulsion against the free will of the Cypriot people. The British Bases in Cyprus undermine the self-determination of the Cypriot people and the Republic of Cyprus itself. They consist an outdated residue of colonization and especially after the invasion and occupation, consist a second open wound in the body of our country. They consist a danger against peace and security in our region and bring sufferings for the Cypriot and other peoples.
- Their existence and use has been proved criminal for the peoples of the region, since the forces of these bases attack and spread the death in the neighboring countries. Moreover, the Bases are used for the surveillance in the Middle East operating one of the most modern tracking facilities worldwide. The operation of the bases as a starting point of attacks of the NATO imperialists must not continue. These wars intent to control the region and aim to control and claim even more territories; control the markets and the natural resources of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. The imperialists themselves are responsible for cultivating and conserving terrorism.
- We, Greekcypriots and Turkishcypriots, maintaining faithful to the ideals of peace, we denounce those who attempt to give forgiveness to NATO and offer to it earth and water, erasing the crimes of NATO against our people, transforming Cyprus into an unsinkable aircraft carrier of NATO. We denounce Anastasiades government as well as those that seek our entrance in the warmonger program of NATO “Partnership for Peace”. We do not declare allegiance to those that planned and executed invasion and occupation.
- As EDON, we will never accept the entrance of our homeland in the ranks of NATO. We demand that Cyprus shall not have any involvement, indirect or direct in the imperialist NATO plans and wars.
- At the same time, we have an irremovable target for the liberation and reunification of our island, so that united Greekcypriots and Turkishcypriots to uproot NATO monstrosity of the bases from our island. United, we shall fight for a Cyprus liberated, federal, dominant, independent and demilitarized, far from occupation armies, foreign reliance and fences.
- We join our forces along with the pro-peace peoples that struggle for peace, democracy, freedom, against imperialist wars, poverty and oppression.
- We seek for the dissolution of NATO; the closing of military bases; the dissolution of the aggressive armies; the full prohibition of the nuclear production and full nuclear disarmament.
BASES OF DEATH OUT OF CYPRUS!
25 January 2015