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[repulsewarrior]

Little has been done to explore the possibility of creating a new constitution for Cyprus. I propose a state with two chambers which reflect the need for equality and proportional representation. Regions could have their own government which would reflect ethnicity and an opportunity for each community to show their goodwill to their minority.

[De_La_Soul]

in other words the Annan plan.

[repulsewarrior]

Not the annan plan. Something which we can create that maybe completely different.

[repulsewarrior]

I propose the basis of discussion which includes a system of government which allows for the autonomy of regions on several important protfolios, such as education, and municipal affairs.

The objective of these regions would be the practical implementation of policies which protect a stated minority while it promotes the desires of the community it is mandated to serve.

Furthermore, in this confederal system, the central government if bi-cameral will assure in one house an equality of communities while in the other chamber a government by proportional representation can thrive.

[Dhavlos]

hey rep...ave you seen mooses plan...i think this is a good starting point for what you are suggesting...

personally, i think yuor plan sounds pretty good. lots of cantons, which have majorities of Turkish Cypriots or Greek Cypriots ...which could be drawn around areas that are pedominantly Greek Cypriot or Turkish Cypriot...and that could mean people could move back to their old property.

[Dhavlos]

mod note : topic moved because it is better suited in this section of the problem.

[repulsewarrior]

Some things which must be considered include the changing narure of Europe and the need for original dwellers to return to the lifestyle which was without threat before the hostilities.

I ask myself, can it be possible for the island's Greekness to thrive? Why, after 300 years of Ottoman rule was it possible for EOKA fighters to imagine that they could outnumber this foe to their slaughter. To be frank, this is the proof that Turkey, and those who could have colonised it were uninterested in its value, being so close, and not yet of strategic importance. Cyprus has never had a large Turkish population. Today, this is anathema as though Greeks, the modern dwellers of less than 200 years define the Greekness which has survived on this island since before religion; or that the Turkish dwellers in the occupied North have anything in common with the aboriginal dwellers who are Muslims.

That is why free movement and peaceable enjoyment of property are so important as issues for these ancient customs, traditions, and ways of living, to survive. They are more precious to the whole community of Mankind if an equitable form of Good Government could be found which provides for the respect we have for one another as equals.

I would prefer discussion on a system of government which promotes the protection of minorities, by providing for reciprocal engagements of Goodwill for a community to prosper as a whole.

In the case of Cyprus, for example, the island could remain divided in half, with many pockets of Greek inhabitants, in cantons, northward like the pockets of Turkish dwellers, who in cantons will prosper, without a threat apparent, in the South.

Perhaps, most significantly important to realise, is that the role for Cyprus could be of central importance, like a city-state, to the megalopolos that is building around it. With its ability to provide for so many, service in exchange, it proves to be unique, if it has a nature which continues to be peace loving, and undivided, because it retains its ability to include, as it has over the ages, by its own assimulation, into the frontiers we face, as one family of man, into the age of information.

The considerations of urbain and rural dwellers are very different.

[Dhavlos]

pockets of dwellings/cantons...that issomethign i support rather tahn plain bzonality.