Cypriot House of Representatives

On the last day of March the Greek Cypriot House of Representatives will vote on a draft sponsored by the ruling Democratic Rally Party (DISI) to authorize the Education Ministry to decide on the days to be marked in secondary schools. The draft, which cleared the education committee last week, aims at leaving behind a controversy over a recent law that ordered the commemoration of a 1950 plebi

There is a proverb in Turkish, the direct translation of which might be "A bad development is sometimes better than a thousand words of good advice." The decision of the Greek Cypriot House of Representatives to commemorate the anniversary 1950 "enosis" (union with Greece) plebiscite at schools is one of those bad developments that could be described as "better now than tomorrow."

NICOSIA - Cyprus will always maintain a principled position on Kosovo-Metohija and support Serbia, as well as continue to advocate Serbia's EU membership, Dimitris Syllouris, president of the Cypriot House of Representatives, said at a meeting with Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic Monday.