“Η δεινή θέση που έχει περιέλθει η χώρα μας, επιτέλους βρίσκει διέξοδο.
Μετά από συντονισμένες ενέργειες με τους φίλους και γείτονες μας, όχι
μόνον δίνουμε τέλος στην εχθρότητα, αλλά ως καλοί γείτονες πλέον
απολαμβάνουμε σε κλίμα αμοιβαιότητας τα οφέλη από την συνεκμετάλλευση
των
φυσικών πόρων.
Αυτή την Κυριακή, σε καλώ να ψηφίσεις “ΝΑΙ” στην συνεκμετάλλευση ώστε να
επανέλθει ο μισθός σου στα προηγούμενα επίπεδα, να ξαναανοίξουν οι
λογαριασμοί σου και να γεμίσουν πάλι τα σούπερ μάρκετ.
Σε καλώ να πεις “ΝΑΙ” διότι οι συνέπειες του ΟΧΙ θα είναι ολέθριες.
Και επειδή ξέρω βρωμοκυπραίε ότι πάλι θα πεις ΟΧΙ, δεν θα σε ρωτήσω καν αυτή την φορά και θα τα δώσω όλα μόνος μου”
Δηλώσεις του κυρίου Αναστασιάδη που θα γίνουν σε λίγο καιρό.
Το “γιατί”, διαβάστε το στους ΝΥΤ σήμερα:
BRUSSELS — With its economy in tatters, Cyprus urgently needs to tap its
natural gas deposits. But opening the spigot will force the easternmost
member of the European Union to make the tough choices it has long been
loath to confront.
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Since the discovery of the gas two years ago in nearby waters, Cyprus
has been laying plans to get the gas to market by circumventing Turkey,
which has occupied the northern third of the island for nearly 40 years.
But in less than a week, those Cypriot ambitions have been dealt a double blow.
On Monday, Cyprus was forced to shrink a banking sector that could have
helped channel capital for vital energy infrastructure as a condition
for a €10 billion, or $13 billion, bailout from the European lenders and
the International Monetary Fund. The deal fended off an uncontrolled
default and the country’s exit from the euro, but snatched away the keys
to Cyprus’s prosperity in recent decades.
Three days earlier, Israel — on whose additional gas Cyprus was relying
to turn itself into an energy export hub — mended fences with Turkey.
The reconciliation, over an Israeli raid three years ago that left nine
Turks dead on an aid vessel bound for Gaza, has opened the way for
normal relations between Israel and Turkey that could include direct
cooperation in the energy sector, bypassing Cyprus.
The sudden reversal of fortunes implies that fiercely self-reliant
Cypriots may need to brush up on their own relations with Turkey to make
its gas wealth a reality.
“The saddling of Cyprus with so much debt could be an indirect way of
the E.U. pushing Greek Cypriots into some kind of resolution of the
Cyprus problem,” said Fiona Mullen, director of Sapienta Economics, a
consulting firm based in Nicosia. “If you have to pledge the wealth of
future generations to save your souls today, then this puts a premium on
making as much revenue out of the gas as fast as possible.”
E.U. lawmakers also regard the Cypriots’ desperate need for cash as
leverage for a settlement with Turkey, but underline the huge political
challenges.
For Cyprus and Turkey, “gas exploration and export could be the coal and
steel commodity that united France and Germany after the war,” said
Andrew Duff, a British member of the European Parliament, referring to
the foundations of economic alliance that developed into the modern-day
European Union.
“The thing that we haven’t as yet seen in the Eastern Mediterranean that
we saw after the war here is leadership of a statesmanlike quality that
can carry such a deal through,” said Mr. Duff, who participates in an
E.U.-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.
The two halves of the island have been split between the mainly
Turkish-speaking north, occupied by Turkey since an invasion in 1974,
and the internationally recognized, mainly Greek-speaking Republic of
Cyprus in the south.
Both sides have sparred over ownership of the gas, creating another
obstacle to reunification rather than an incentive to cooperate. Yet the
closest natural customer is Turkey, which imports most of its oil and
gas and is the biggest potential, and rapidly growing, consumer.
Those tensions bubbled to the surface again last weekend when the
Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned the Cypriots against making
the gas part of a potential deal, now apparently off the table, to repay
bailout loans to the Union or Russia.
“It is not acceptable that the Greek Cypriot side uses the economic
crisis it is facing as an opportunity to create new fait accomplis,” the
ministry said in a statement. The “only way to exploit the natural
resources of the island” is “the clear consent of the Turkish Cypriot
side regarding the sharing of these natural resources,” according to the
ministry.
On Wednesday, the Turkish energy minister, Taner Yildiz, said his
government was suspending planned projects with the Italian energy giant
Eni partly over the energy company’s involvement in energy exploration
in Cyprus.
Cyprus has nurtured ties with Israel to protect future gas facilities to
produce and deliver liquefied natural gas, or L.N.G., drawn from
offshore fields in the Eastern Mediterranean and to avoid the need for a
pipeline to Turkey to reach markets.