(Simona Mengascini, SIR’s correspondent in Cyprus) The Comunità di Sant’Egidio has no "ambitions of mediation", but says it is "convinced that something must change in Cyprus". With these words, Andrea Riccardi, founder of Comunità di Sant’Egidio, informed the press of what the Comunità di Sant’Egidio during the inter-religious meeting, which is ending today in Cyprus has done for reconciliation and peace in Cyprus. A country said Riccardi which is divided into two and which, since the Seventies, has been living in a "state of deep pain, forsaken homes, destroyed monuments and places of worship", "in a peace that never comes and a war that has become the norm". Because of this went on Riccardi , "we have chosen Cyprus as a stopover for the caravan of peace, to promote a culture of peace and reconciliation and to draw attention to a forgotten situation. Who cares about Cyprus?" Riccardi then said that, during the meeting, a delegation of religious leaders (which included a delegate from the French Pax Christi, the rabbis David Rosen and Israel Singer, and mgr. Ambrogio Spreafico) met and spoke with the two negotiators of the Cypriot Government and the Turkish Cypriot community and with the special representative of the United Nations. (continued)
