GREEK PLEA TO U.N.

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27435, 23 August 1954, Page 11

GREEK PLEA TO U.N.

Opposition By Britain NEW YORK, August 20. Greece today appealed to the United Nations to allow the people Cyprus to “express themselves on its future” under United Nations auspices. The British representative (Sit Pierson Dixon) issued a statement “very much regretting?’ the movs. Britain, he said, had a long tradition of friendship and affection for Greece. It had never failed to help in Greece’s struggle for freedorii and survival. “It is indeed sad that the' Greek Government should be prepared to prejudice this old friendship by an attempt to obtain for herself a British possession.” ’ Greece asserted in her appeal to the United Nations that the Cyprus dispute was likely to harm friendly relations between Britain and Greece and the general welfare of the international community. The appeal is signed by the Greek Pjime ’ Minister (Field-Marshal Papagos). The Greek representative in the United Nations (Mr A. Palamas) said at a press conference that the Cyprus question properly was not a dispute between Britain and Greece but rather an issue between Greece and the British Colonial Office. He added that the “inflexible and intransigent” attitude of the Colonial Office left no other course open thin to bring the question to the United Nations. “We hope our British friends will realise that we are following a policy which is really pro-British,” he added. “Anti-British policy is being followed by the Colonial Office.”