"Christofias in Papadopoulos’ footsteps
20.03.2009
Ozcan Ozcanhan
Greek Cypriot President Demitris Christofias was not at his best at his recent press conference at the end of his first year in office. He went to great lengths to explain his policies on the country’s economy, the budget, defence, education, the proposed changes in Greek Cypriot history books, and the unrealistic progress at the Cyprus talks. He was angered by a question about history lessons and text books. He dismissed allegations by DIKO leader Garoyan, EDEK leader Omirou and Ecological party leader Perdikis that his government was involved in removing from history books the EOKA martyrs, sacrifices and patriotism for Cyprus. Mind you, not a single Turkish Cypriot journalist was invited to the news conference and Christofias addressed only media representatives of his own community. Mr. Christofias stressed the mistakes of his predecessors, the former governments and claimed that his administration had made no mistakes, but was engaged largely in correcting the faults of others."
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