CANCER PATIENTS: THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD APPLY THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR CANCER

The Cyprus Green Party Member of Parliament Mr. George Perdikes met last Tuesday with the President of the House of Representatives Mr. Marios Karogian, as he was accompanying the President of the Patients and Friends’ NGO movement of the Nicosia General Hospital Oncology Department (EL.A-ZO).

Mr. Perdikes asked that the Parliament insist on last Thursday’s plenum decision, which requested that the government adopts and directly applies the strategic plan for fighting cancer, which has been on the table of the Ministerial Council since January 2008.
It’s truly criminal to have cancer patients being disregarded from the state and the government. It’s absolutely outrageous to have waiting lists for radiotherapy due to the lack of the necessary linear accelerators and the lack of maintenance of the state hospitals’ radiotherapy machines.
The government ought to assume its responsibilities, and it is the Parliament’s responsibility to insist on this.

Greens accuse government over golf courses

THE GREEN Party yesterday accused the government of planning to bypass environmental and town-planning procedures for desalination units to ease the way for more golf courses in Cyprus.According to the party’s general secretary, George Perdikis, a bill submitted by the government to the House Environment Committee provided the cancellation of environmental studies and town-planning procedures for those interested in building desalination plants.But Perdikis said this was a back-handed way for the government to allow the operation of golf courses.“The government’s attempts to cancel all environmental and town-planning control over the creation of so-called small desalination units are scandalous,” said Perdikis. “The government is essentially offering natural resources to the capitals of private businessmen.“We say the control proceedings should be sped up and not cancelled.”Parliament has already told the government that this will lead to a huge environmental scandal, he explained.“Those whose applications for golf courses were rejected by the Exemptions Committee will, based on this bill, be able to go ahead and build them.”
(Cyprus Mail)

Say NO to the use of Lannate

The President of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr. Demetris Christofias and Minister of Agriculture and Environment, Mr. Michalis Polynikis signing the petition against the use of Lannate.

The campaign by the Cyprus Green Party is still on and we would be greatfull if YOU fill the following petition form and send it back to us at greenparty@cytanet.com.cy or post it to:

Cyprus Green Party
P.O. Box 29682,
1722 Nicosia

NAME: .......................................................................

ADDRESS: ..................................................................

Tel. No: ..................................................................

and send it to email

COME AND ENJOY A MEAL COOKED WITH SOLAR ENERGY!

The Cyprus Green Party’s Limassol District Committee is organising the following activities at Gregoris Auxentiou Square (Dioikitirio) to celebrate the World Environment Day:

10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.: Display of the mechanism of solar furnaces

Andreas Fasoulides and Kyriakos Antoniou from the Techonology Workshop Re-New will present furnaces that operate with sunlight to bake food.

4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m: Workshop with recycling material and children’s painting workshop. Sun will be the day's theme.

In the afternoon children of all ages will have the possibility to draw pictures inspired by the sun or to work together to create a recycling bin with recycled material!

Journalists are invited by the Limassol District Committee to lunch with them. At 12:00 p.m. we will serve “sun” roast chicken, potatoes and vegetables.

Intense concern on the developments on the Cyprus problem

The political committee of Cyprus Green Party having studied the latest developments occurred from the meeting of President Christofias with Mr. Talat and their common announcement and having in mind the briefing of the party’s Secretary General, Mr. George Perdikis, expresses its intense concern for the future of the Cyprus issue.

The intense concern was created due to the inclusion of different terms and statements in the common announcement. These terms are considered very risky as we are certain that they will be used by the permanently deceitful Turkish side and the well known involved countries which are always supporting Turkey despite the honest willingness of President Christofias.

Besides all above, we consider that the non inclusion of statements concerning the important facts of the Cyprus problem, such as the settlers, properties, security and guarantees and focusing on every day matters, are creating a negative environment for the negotiations which cannot allow us to be optimistic.

The Cyprus Green Party calls President Christofias to continue the resistance to the unacceptable demands of Mr. Talat and to avoid direct negotiations before real progress is obtained by the committees and especially by the working groups. We also ask President Christofias to insist on the principles of the solution of the Cyprus problem as they have been expressed by him during the pre-election period.

In this difficult attempt, the Cyprus Green Party will stand and support President Christofias in an effort to obtain a just, right and viable solution for the Cyprus problem.

Informative campaign and signature raising against the construction of nuclear stations

Recently, we had a great number of discussions regarding the construction of nuclear stations in Greece and Cyprus. One of the basic arguments presented, was that, since a lot of neighbor countries have announced their intension to built a nuclear stations, and since we will be in danger anyway, why not building one of our own? The absolute insanity! Should we put a bomb in our house, if our neighbor is willing to do so and we will have the consequences, anyway? Of course not. We shall try to obstruct him in every possible way. In this respect we ask for political initiatives on an International level to block the nuclear threat.

The International Network, Mediterranean No Nuclear Neighborhood-ΜΝ3, is organizing a campaign for raising signatures under an article which you can find on the following addresses: www.mn3network.org and www.manw.org. You can also find a form which you can print and raise signatures. On the form you can find the address to which you should send the forms.

The Greek effort is supported by the Mediterranean No Nuclear Neighborhood, the Greek office of Greenpeace, WWF (Hellas), SOS Mediterranean Network and the Greek network of Ecological Organizations (Pandoiko). In Cyprus, the campaign was undertaken by the Cyprus Green Party and the Ecological Movement.

We need your participation. We need your support. It’s the only certain way to avoid the construction and settlement of new nuclear stations.

NUCLEAR ENERGY IS NOT A SOLUTION. IT IS JUST ANOTHER PROBLEM!
Active citizens against radioactivity!
Sign NOW and promote this campaign…

Concerns on statements about creating a Nuclear Station in Cyprus

The Cyprus Green Party expresses its great concerns for statements of the Director of the Energy Department of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, who expressed his positive opinion on the idea of constructing a nuclear factory in Cyprus.

Adopting nuclear reactors is a significant social decision, because possible dangers directly affect the population outside the country’s territories. Unfortunately, society and expert scientists more often than not have a limited say in such crucial decision-making processes, while the final word belongs to corporations and technocrats.

The biggest, unresolved issue of nuclear energy is the accumulation of nuclear waste from the reactors. The radioactivity released by thousands of tons of nuclear waste is exceedingly dangerous, has a vast durability over time and its handling is terribly expensive.
The Cyprus Green Party asks the Cyprus government to fully evaluate the effects of all factors and to be more than careful when dealing with such serious topics. Even minor announcements and statements can create unfortunate controversies, while at the same time they dynamite every action and attempt of preventing the construction of nuclear factories in Turkey’s southern coastline, which can endanger the entire region.