Deputy Government Spokesperson, Doxa Komodromou, attended events organised by the Cypriot expatriate community in Australia condemning the tragic anniversaries of the coup d’ état and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, representing the President of the Republic, Nikos Christodoulides. Komodromou, who was the keynote speaker in anti-occupation events in Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Brisbane and Sydney, was accompanied by the High and Deputy High Commissioner Antonis Sammoutis and Stavros Nicolaou respectively. The events took place between July 14th and July 24th. During her visit to Adelaide, she visited the largest museum in the area accompanied by Member of Parliament and Minister of Art and Small Family Business, Andrea Michaels, who is of Cypriot origin. She also met with Senior Advisor to Senator Simon Birmingham, member of the Cyprus-Australia Friendship Group of the Federal Parliament. At an event dedicated to Cyprus that took place at the “House of Cyprus”, Komodromou had a meeting with MP John Paul Langbroek, Shadow Minister for Communities, Disability Services and Multiculturalism, as well as Judge, Anthi Filippidou. Turkish troops invaded Cyprus on July 20, 1974, five days after the legal government of the late Archbishop Makarios III was toppled by a military coup, engineered by the military junta then ruling Greece. Repeated rounds of UN-led peace talks have so far failed to yield results. The latest round of negotiations, in July 2017 at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana ended inconclusively.
Source: Cyprus News Agency