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| Members of the Cyprus communist youth organization EDON, which is the new head of WFDY |
Statement by Georgios
Loucaides, Press Spokesman of the C.C. of AKEL
15th November 2011,
Nicosia
The Central Committee
of AKEL expresses its warm congratulations to EDON for its election to the
Presidency of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) during the
Federation's 18th General Assembly which took place in Lisbon Portugal.
Undoubtedly the election
of EDON to the Presidency of a historic Federation constitutes a very important
development; a Federation which has always been in the front line of young
peoples and the peoples of the world struggles for world peace and social
progress. WFDY is an Organisation representing over 185 Youth Organisations and
millions of young people all over the world.
Furthermore, WFDY was
always a long-standing consistent supporter of the Cypriot people's struggle
for independence and reunification, against the occupation and partition. The
role of EDON in the Presidency will strengthen the struggle towards this end so
that the internationalisation of the Cyprus problem and drawing of
international solidarity will be maximised.
In the current
conditions of a sharpened imperialist aggressiveness and an unprecedented
crisis of capitalism, WFDY´s role in the people's struggles is rendered even
more important. EDON in the Presidency of WFDY and the new President of the
Federation comrade Demetris Palmyris, who we warmly congratulate too, are
called upon within the framework of the upgraded role they are undertaking in
the international youth movement to give even more forces to successfully
tackle the great challenges before them.
Needless to say they
will have all the support and assistance of AKEL in their efforts.
We assess that this
election is not accidental but the result of the rich consistent activity of
EDON on a local, but also international level which today is acknowledged in
this honorary way for the Organisation. First and foremost, the honour of
course concerns EDON and the Movement of the Left in Cyprus, but it is at the
same time also an honour for Cyprus itself.
The C.C. of AKEL
expresses the certainty that EDON will manage to meet the aspirations of the
progressive youth of the world and in successfully carrying out the difficult
and at the sane time very significant role it is undertaking.
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