The recent developments in relation to the Cyprus Problem and the so-called “solution” are worrying. The leaks to the Cypriot press about the draft joint statement of Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots so that the negotiations restart demonstrate that this will be along the lines of the “Annan Plan”, which did not ensure a just or viable solution to the Cyprus Problem and left the possibility open for the peoples of Greece and Turkey being entangled in “adventures”, while it did not establish a united Cyprus, a common homeland for Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots, without foreign armies and bases.

The new initiatives of the President of Cyprus, N. Anastassiadis (an advocate of the “Annan Plan”), under the “high supervision” of the USA does not leave any room for misinterpretation. We see that almost 10 years after April 2004 that a new “Annan Plan” has reappeared, something that was rejected by 76% of the Greek-Cypriot people, against the enormous pressure they were subjected to in that period by the imperialist organizations, such as the EU, as well as by the bourgeois political system in Greece, the bourgeois parties of PASOK and ND, which substantially supported the plan.

We remind you that they then promised the Cypriot people that Cyprus’ accession to the EU would pave the way for a fair resolution of the Cyprus problem, that there is the “Community acquis”, at the same time when the EU was promoting partition. We must also bear in mind, however, that the basic core of today’s SYRIZA, then SYN, supported the plan in 2002 and also in 2004, calling on the Cypriot people to vote YES in the referendum, enthusiastically promising that the EU would solve the problem, accusing the KKE of isolationism and nationalism! And today this party, which praises the “political line of Obama” at every opportunity, is silent about the recent developments on the Cyprus problem.

The interventions of the EU and the USA have multiplied in the recent period. These powers are interested in advancing the positions of their monopoly groups in the Eastern Mediterranean, which are related to the energy resources, their transport routes, the geo-strategic advantages. Correspondingly, the Greek and Turkish bourgeois classes are competing over who will consolidate their position in the region.

The developments in regards to the Cyprus problem provide valuable lessons. The most important: accession to the EU was anything but a solution to save the Cypriot people and give them prosperity. The ‘great embrace” of the EU was demonstrated to be too small to accommodate the rights of all the workers, Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot. We are referring to the working class and popular rights, the right for the people to live in a united, independent Cyprus. It has been demonstrated to be large, enormous in fact, for the interests of the bourgeois class, of the imperialists.

The example of Cyprus shows that the EU one-way street, the participation in imperialist organizations and inter-state capitalist unions, can not guarantee territorial sovereignty, as the supporters of the EU one-way street falsely claim.

And it is very apparent from the Cyprus problem that pro-people solutions do not exist inside the imperialist framework. There must be readiness and vigilance so that there is a reaction against these dangerous developments. As the KKE also notes in its statement on the issue: “The Cypriot people have their interests in resisting the European predatory alliance and its plans. The KKE denounced the “Annan Plan”, supported and supports the struggle of the Cypriot people for a just solution to the Cyprus problem in favour of the workers, Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot.”

The example of Cyprus is an answer to everyone who for years has been trying to persuade us that the EU is a guarantee for territorial sovereignty, for the rights of the peoples, that it is the only way.

The position for disengagement from the EU with people’s power is valid for every European country- both for Greece and Cyprus-and is what will lead to the abolition of the EU and to the United Europe of Socialism. This position can unite the peoples with relations of equal cooperation, friendship and solidarity.