With the new passage, the sixth one, opened today in the wall dividing the city of Nicosia, Cyprus Island made another step towards unification. Today, at dawn, in Ledra Street, the bulldozers pulled down one part of the wall witnessing the conflict between Greece and Turkey, which marked the island for over thirty years. The new passage has a great symbolic value because Ledra Street is the street splitting the cease-fire line, actually joining the Greek area with the Turkish area of the city. "It is an important fact, yet it is not decisive said Msgr. Giorgio Khoury to SIR, from the Cyprus Maronite Church; one must not be too enthusiastic. Now, three things should be done: driving the army away from the area, enabling mine clearing, and rebuilding the houses near the passage, abandoned over thirty years ago. For that purpose, it is possible to use European Union funds. If the Greek and Cypriot Parties reach an agreement, it will be possible to do all that within the next few weeks. Then, we’ll be able to say that an important step towards unification has been made. It is necessary to go on hoping and praying for the island, as well as concretely operating, in daily life, for reconciliation and forgiveness".
