What purpose do the UN serve here?
I HAD to laugh reading the article last week regarding the UN maybe moving their base outside Gazimağusa due to the ever-expanding growth of the city.
I have another idea. Why not remove the UN from Cyprus altogether and save the organisation a fortune.
I mean what purpose do they serve here? “Peacekeepers” they are called, but anyone who lives here knows full well that we have all enjoyed 44 years of peace in Cyprus because of the Turkish troops and NOT the UN. I ask again what purpose do they serve?
Every Wednesday we see the four-vehicle convoy trucking up to Dipkarpaz with more goodies for the few remaining Greeks living up there.
Everyone knows they sell it on to the Turkish Cypriots and everyone’s a winner! How much must this have cost the UN? There are enough shops there for them to buy their groceries anyway and the two communities have always got on well.
Everyone knows that should hostilities break out between the Greeks and Turks, the UN “peacekeepers” would be as much use at keeping the two sides apart as they have been elsewhere in the hotspots around the world or as they were from 1964 to 1974 when the Turkish Cypriots were being massacred. There’s more chance of Tony Blair agreeing to Brexit than the UN keeping them apart.
When President Akıncı met Elizabeth Spehar this week I just hope he has pointed this fact out to her (but I doubt it).
Your article ended with the Gazimağusa Mayor, İsmail Arter, promising to turn the area into “a national park” for the public with backing from Okan Dağlı. I wish them well should they be successful in moving the UN on, otherwise the builders will grab it and turn it into yet another large apartment development which is currently proliferating all over Gazimağusa.
John Grundey, Boğaz, Gazimağusa