Independent In-depth Paragraph by Paragraph Analysis of the Implications of the Annan Plan

Foundation Agreement

Article 8 Demilitarisation

3. The constituent states shall prohibit violence and the incitement to violence against the United Cyprus Republic, the federal government, the constituent states, or the guarantor powers.

Comments

In order for the Annan plan to be functional and workable the people of Cyprus need to feel secure. The Treaty of Establishment, the Treaty of Guarantee, and the Treaty of Alliance were all incapable of preventing Greece from orchestrating a military coup against the democratised elected president of the Republic of Cyprus at the behest of the CIA on the orders of Henry Kissinger, which gave Turkey a pretext to invade Cyprus in violation of Article 2 Paragraph 4 of the UN Charter as stated in numerous UN resolutions. The US conspired with NATO so that no action was taken to stop Turkey and to the contrary NATO endorsed Turkey illegal invasion and the assassination attempt of Prsident Makarios. Britain failed in its commitments to protect Cyprus and because of the intervention of Henry Kissinger who ordered James Callahan not to attempt to intervene when Turkey violated a UN brokered cease fire on August 14 1974 and invaded Cyprus a second time in the same year 200,000 Greek Cypriots were ethnically cleansed and thousands were mutilated, raped, murdered, tortured or made to disappear by Turkish forces as documented in the Reports of the European Commission of Human Rights which found Turkey alone was guilty of mass violation of the European Convention of Human Rights.

From 1960 to 1974 and since then, the guarantor powers have undermined the sovereignty and integrity of the Republic of Cyprus they were supposed to guarantee in the first place.  The Annan plan maintains and strengthens the rights of the guarantor powers as if the recent history of Cyprus never happened.

Turkey does not recognise the Republic of Cyprus nor has it shown any intention of respecting its unity, independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity for over 30 years. Since 1964 Turkey has repeatedly failed to comply with over 130 UN Security Council Resolutions concerning Cyprus and numerous European Court of Human Right judgments ordering to unconditionally compensate the Cypriot victims of its human rights violations. How can Cyprus feel secure when a state that does not recognise it and holds the UN and ECHR in contempt, is expected to guarantee its security.

The reference that the constituent states shall prohibiting violence is inconsistent with the model of a federation as demanded by UN Resolution but is a trait of a confederation.

Paragraph 3 must therefore be amended as follows.

Amendment Required

3. The federal state either directly or thought the cantons shall prohibit violence and the incitement to violence against the United Cyprus Republic, the federal government, the cantons, or the European Union.

Clarification Required