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Let’s patch things up !

Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2005
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CYPRIOT women from both sides of the divide yesterday joined their voices in reaffirming their desire for peace and reunification on the island.

They met at the Ledra Palace hotel, in the Nicosia buffer zone, to prepare their piece of a global patchwork representing the ideal world of women from every country.

The pieces would be put together to make a huge quilt – the quilt of international solidarity, which would translate the Women’s World Charter for Humanity.

It was an emotional meeting in the middle of the dividing line.

Turkish Cypriot women, who got there first, greeted their Greek counterparts with the slogan “Peace in Cyprus cannot be stopped”.

The Greek women replied with “United and peaceful Cyprus” and walked towards the meeting point where the approximately 100 women put their hands together and applauded their combined effort.

They then moved inside the hotel, carrying a long strip of white sheet – their piece of patchwork – which was later filled with wishes for piece colourful cloth flowers.

The bi-communal gathering was attended by House Speaker Demetris Christofias, Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Ferdi Soyer, and other political personalities from both sides.

In a speech read in Greek and Turkish, the women of Cyprus said that their piece of patchwork captured the aims of their struggle for a solution of the Cyprus problem and piece and progress in Cyprus.

The women of Cyprus, Turkish, Greek, Armenian, Maronite and Latin, all victims of war, “visualise a free and reunited motherland; a happy and progressive Cyprus, a common homeland for all its children,” the women said.

“They dream of a world full of hope, life, where it is worth for one to live in.”


Contributors : Martine Senécal, Agente de liaison MMF - Burkina Faso
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Last modified 2007-06-18 02:42 PM
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