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[repulsewarrior]

...i read this article in the Cyprus Mail today.

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=37811&cat_id=1

it inspired the thought that our position as a State is well placed in its Foreign Affairs if the attributes of our President are used to facilitate a sort of Detente between the larger powers. already, we are perfectly suited geographically, and by our geography to accomodate the Occidental, Asian, and African centers of the world.

if our aim, as a people, is to become involved in a relationship with the occupations of Mankind for its betterment, we can demilitarize this island, in a manner where instead it is Supramilitarised. that is to say that the forces stationed here would have an interest beyond national boundries, for their intelligence undoubtably, but as a mission a demonstration of their mutual Human desires.

Quote: “Mr Christofias, 61, has better contacts with the Kremlin than with the White House or Downing Street,” quipped The Times of London.
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The Financial Times described Christofias as “a Moscow-educated populist” who appears to have given up his eurosceptic views. “He reinvented himself during the campaign as a champion of EU citizens' rights, saying ‘We shall become 'Euro-fighters' struggling on behalf of the poor’,” the paper said.
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“Communist Wins in Cyprusm” said the New York Times, “Cyprus elects its first communist president” said Britain’s Guardian and “Communist Christofias wins Cyprus presidential vote” read Canada’s National Post, and the Times of India.
Quote: “AKEL is a conundrum to Western analysts and diplomats. The largest political party in Cyprus, it has no specific economic or political programme. Yet much of its leadership, including Mr Christofias, has benefited from scholarships in Russia, lavished on Cyprus when the former Soviet Union attempted to destabilise the strategic island after its independence from Britain in 1960,” the paper said. “The party describes itself as communist and has a reputation for being sceptical of the European Union. It also is distrustful of NATO.”
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“But his victory will cause few jitters in Brussels or London. His party – AKEL, the Progressive Party of the Working People – puts pragmatism before its Marxist-Leninist ideology and is social democrat in practice,” it added.(Times of London)/quote]

can Christofias be a better partner to Europe because of a position where he remains Non-Alligned?

While a European State, can we provide to this superior authority our service as a facilitator?