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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
Collapsed Cyprus unity talks shouldn’t be resurrected at any cost just to find a solution to bring the island back together again decades after an unlawful 1947 Turkish invasion, Archbishop Chrysostomos said, ruling out a settlement “at any cost” to get an answer.
In his Christmas message, the Archbishop said the impression that carrying out talks just for the sake of it, without any prospects for success as protection from “worse situations,” was a mistake, the Cyprus Mail reported.
“We have been experiencing in Cyprus for 45 years the suffering from the occupation of half our country and escalating insecurity, which derives from Turkey’s insatiable aspirations of conquering all of Cyprus,” Chrysostomos said.
That came as he said Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades is under growing pressure from the United Nations and international community to make concessions to finally resolve a problem that has eluded a long line of diplomats and envoys.
The Archbishop said that the legitimate government, which is a member of the European Union that Turkey wants to join while barring its ships and planes and refusing to recognize it, is being squeezed “for new concessions in order for the occupying power to agree to the relaunch of the talks,” that collapsed in July, 2017 at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana.
Those negotiations fell apart when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said they would never remove an army occupying the northern third of the island and that they wanted the right to militarily intervene again when they wanted.
“Weren’t we engaged in talks when the second phase of the invasion began? Or when they were declaring the pseudo-state? Did the talks ever stop violations of our airspace or of our exclusive economic zone?” he asked. The talks, said Chrysostomos, were not a cure for all ills, “nor should the resumption of the talks be sought at any cost.”
He said that straying from a bizonal, bicommunal type solution, which was a “racist and separatist” one, “should not lead us to accept a worse solution, a concealed confederation,” with Turkey suggesting the island is headed for permanent partition without resolution.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.