Proposed by: Andreas Papallas

Active from: 2012-11-03 to 2014-04-12

Description

• Regarding the recent decision of the British Council to establish a branch in the occupied by Turkey territory of the Republic of Cyprus, and regarding the fact that the British Council has organised a UK education exhibition in the occupied territory of the Republic of Cyprus, the Hellenic and Cypriot society desires the Students' Union to adopt a policy towards the situation in Cyprus in order to act for the best interest of the Cypriot Students.

  We therefore call the Student's Union Council to adopt a policy, which will:

  1) Ratify the UN Resolution 550 (1984), "Reaffirms the call upon all States not to recognise the purported state of the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" set up by secessionist acts and calls upon them not to facilitate or in any way assist this the aforesaid secessionist entity."

  2) Condemn all Turkey's occupation acts including the military invasion of 1974 and continuing violations of human rights in Cyprus as supported by the European Court of Human Rights (Cyprus v. Turkey, App.25781/94, Judgment of 10 May 2001)

  3) Recognise the fact that the whole island of Cyprus has been a 'de jure' territory of the Republic of Cyprus since its establishment in 1960 and has been a territory of the European Union since the Republic of Cyprus has become a full member of the Union in 2004. Thus any references to Cyprus non-EU (as seen on the University's website) or Cyprus North/South are invalid.

• For (148)
• Against (136)