SOVIET STATEMENT ON CYPRUS

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LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7

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July 18, 1974

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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 OF m"ED 0 18o115Z JUL Fm?CT ZYLI 25X1- Aloint..a 7/7 g7t.,41.d TO WHIIEHOUSEY/SITUATION ROOM-FOR mR FAZIO STATE RCl//ATTETIO)1 OPERATIOAS ?CENTER FOR MR FRY Nm_CC/f ATTETII0 CIA REP :TREASURY DEPT//INFO FOR MR JOHN YE0 MORI C03223855 ON-FILE NSC RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS CONFIDENTIAL. CITE CIA/WHSS 33897. WARMING NOTICE SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVE5 , - ' ITEM'NO: 5 - . DATE:- JULY 17/ 1974 SUBJECT; ATE0c7.-0,J-,ON- CYPRUS REF . FBIS 126, JULY 17' 1974 UNCLASSIFIED MOSCOW'S GoVERNMENT STATEMENT ON THE CYPRUS THIS EvFNING IS N0TA9LY MODERATE. AVOID ODES NIT INDICATE TqTT-Tr.E uSSR SEU ITS SECURITY AFFECTED BY TgVT1770-7TUTT-77-7-7-TrE77-77 . srATEr---1oscr_141s MOST AUTHORITATIVE PRONOUNCEMENT ON THF,CIUP SO SUPPIRT IMOEPENCP, P - 17'1= is tGITIvATE44 G,IivtNT F mAKARIDS. IT DEMANDS fit Tk-A,717;.751771-77777111--DF ALL GREER-7,171-7777-7=7tnmmal F_RnH THF State Department review completed IStA!*!IY7.UT DOES NIT THRcATE0 ATHENS r:IT-1 Aoy co\lc_FouENCES IF ND DrJr7.. TE S P!PLIES THAT THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL IS THE FORUM F.P. INTFRATIIAL ACTION ON CYPRUS BUT su.G.pEsTs THAT RITC711 p17:s THT? = c- P h r1N N BFC4.11St oP THF 'STRuCTI-=A _17F THE SFATM-7-1:27177771Y EXR;t5SES DISPLqASURE WITH US POLICY TOWARD THE CYPRUS 5ITUATIOi4, SAYING THAT "S0r,E" IN THE WE-ST ARE ACCEPTING THE GREEK VERSION THAT THE SITUATION IS :A CYPRIOT INTERNAL .MATTER. THE SOVIETS DO NOT cnmmiT 7HEmsEoics ACTIVELY TO ASSI is._..Lifyf2LE?iI_LILS/12.111_11ETURN mAKARIOS TO t921.E&A. (Mosulos INTTIACTITNINCEOENT ON THE COUP, ISSUED MONDAY, SUGGESTED THAT TE USSR WAS HOLDING SUCH A COURSE OPEN.) THE LATEST .STATF,M1=?1. SAYS VAGuELY 1-7iAT THE USSR !TWILL BE ON THE 510...En OF CYPRIOTS SEEKING TO DETERmINE THEIR OWN FATE. IMPDET PAGE 01' OF 01 ToR:199/o1i36z *******C 0 N F I 0 E N T OTG480115Z JUL 74 I A t****t**E COPY No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 ? -4 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 BIS lq$ (SUB FOR 117) .:EXT OF SOVIET GOVERNMENT STATEMENT ON CYPRUS SITUATION 172053 MOScOW TSS IN. EN 2,05? GMT 17 JUL. 74 L STATEMENT OF THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT"--TASS HEADLINE) (TEXT) MOSCOW JULY 17 TASS--FOLLows ;OvIET GOvERNmENT: "THE MUTINY WHICH WAS OPGANIZED Ry THE GREEK BRAZEN ULITARY AGAINST THE LEGITImATE GOvERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ;YPRUS HEADED BY ITS PRESIDENT MAKARIOS IS CONTINUING. THERE-FORE, RUDE MILITARY INTERvENTION FROM OTITSIDE INTO THE lmEsTIC AFFAIRS OF A SOVEREIGN MEMBER-STATE OF THE UNITED :ATIONS IS CONTINUING, AND THE PRINCIPLES OF THE U.N. niARTER ARE BEING UNSCRUPULOUSLY TRA LED UNDERFOOT. A ,EMPTS OF THE GREEK GOvERNmENT TO CONCEAL ITS INVOLvEmENT IITH THIS CRIMINAL ACT BY PICTURING UP THE CURRENT EVENTS :N CYPRUS AS-A RESULT OF THE INTERNAL STRUGGLE CANNOT !ELUDE ANYONE, DESPITE THE FACT THAT SOME PEOPLE IM THE WEST :AUGHT UP THIS FALSE VERSION. THE WHOLE WORLD IS AWARE 'HAT THE CONSPIRACY IN CYPRUS WAS STAGED BY THE GREEK OFFICERS ;TAyING THERE wHO WERE DIRECTED THERE 3Y THE GREEK ;OvERNMENT AND WHO FOLLOW THE ORDERS FROM ATHENS, AND HE GREEK GOVERNMENT SHALL NOT DODGE AWAY FROM THE ESPONSISILITY FOR ITS ACTIONS. THERE IS EVERY REASON TO CONSIDER AS BEING JUST THE oPImin4: 40V COMING A90tIT ALL OVER THE WORLD THAT THE COUP D'ETAT IN ;YPRUS WAS ACTUALLY PLANNED BY CERTAIN NATO CIRCLES MICH COULD NOT PUT UP WITH THE - I NDEPE NOE NT EXISTENCE )F THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS ADHERING TO AN NDEPENDENT FOREIGN '10LICY, TH,T, POLICY OF NON-ALIGNMENT. THIS IS PRECISELY THE CONCLUSION THAT FOLLOWS FROM THE - nSITION OF CORRESPONDING NATO COUNTRIES TAKEN SY THEM 'HEM THE AI. N, SECURITY COUNCIL CONSIDERED THE ISSUE OF THE SITUATION IN CYPRUS AS A RESULT OF THE OUTSIDE triTERvENTION.. THESE COUNTRIES HAVE MADE ImPOSSTRLE THE ADOPTION No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 By THE SEC No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27 :11001121-A-K-1---i-1;:TF-R 40 IN SUPPORT OF THE LEGITVTh.TE GOVERNMENT OF THIS STATE UNDER 4 F.t, 71. 'PRETEXT THAT THE STEm1UG OF THE INTERVENTION FR04 WOULD MEAN A U.', INTERVENTION IN THE INTERNAL FAIRS OF CYPRUS. ? IF THE SECURITY COUNCIL 4ND ITS ME1BER-STATES RESPECT 401 BY mORD BUT DEED THE LOFTY PRINCIPLES AND : 1,0ALS OF THE U.N. CHARTER THEY MUST COME OUT RESOLUTELY *:FENCE OF CYPRUS. THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT. THAT THE CYPRIOT PEOPLE TILL HAVE THEIR SAY YET, FOR THE STRIVING_OF A PEOPLE :'.-EVENTHOOGH.,_MODEST'JN-::NUMBER FOR :FREEDOM AND INDEPENDEICE. ;ANNOT?E T:cIIMISHED.: THE PEOPLE OF CYPRUS HAS PROVED THIS ITS MANY YEARS STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE, AGAINST THE aTEMPTS TO SUBJUGATE ITS WILL. THE SOVIET UNION, LOYAL TO THE LENINIS'T PRINCIPLES OF ?REIGN POLICY HAS ALWAYS BEEN AND IILL BE ON THE SIDE OF HE CYPRIOT PEOPLE I",1 ITS STRUGGLE FOP THE RIGHT TO DECIDE TSELF ON ITS OVN FATE. IT HAS SUPPORTED AND WILL CONTINUE 0 SUPPORT THE IN'DEPENDENT EXISTENCE OF CYPRUS AS A OVEP.EIGN STATE.? AND?IT IS PUITE UNDERSTANDABLE THAT THIS ONSISTENT STANDPOINT OF THE SOVIET UNION mEETS SUPPORT ND APPROVAL AMONG THE wORLD'S PEOPLES. Tr-GOVERNMENT 'OF THE USSR CONSIDERS THAT ALL STATES HICS, .:OLD DEARLY THE PEACE AND FREEDOM OF NATIONS UST RAISE THEIR VOICE IN DEFENCE OF THE LEGITIMATE DVER:LMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS HEADED BY PRESIDENT MAKARIOS, DR THE IMMEDIATE CESSATIO1 OF THE FOREIGN MILITARY NTERVENTION INTO THE DOMESTIC AFFAIRS OF CYPRUS. AS THE ERST MEASURE IT MUST BE UNDERTAKEN TO REMOVE IMMEDIATELY ,?0M CYPRUS THE ENTIRE GREEK MILITARY PERSONNF-L. THERE IS NO WAY TO DODGE AwAY FROM THE RESPONSIBILITY ITHER FOR THOSE WHO HAVE ENCROACHED ON THE SOVEREIGNTY AND :4DEPENDENCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS, OR FOR THOSE WHO ?IE CONNIVING WITH THE PUTSCHISTS OR PRETENDING :!J 0F OF THEIR CRIMINAL ACTIONS." 'JUL .2.05Z PH/BG No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27 : LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 25X1 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 25X1 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 25X1 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 25X1 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 25X1 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 25X1 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 25X1 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 ?...CYPRT7 ? VASUI1CTO1 (AP) 7-- THE: f'17.777T.V.0 CrTT(J OF TE YPIJS ? ? V +77 47 7,!:777 ,3 TO P7:SS 0717T(77.r !1F.76 ? VznEn7,01 REPLI7D: "YOU ULP pul. IT THAT IlAY." .0,1E POLITICAL ZITUATIC (IN CYPRI.:2) IS VERY U.WLEAR AnD THEI1E702E CLL.:SINN Or RECOO;;ITIn TO EITHCR SIDE, . # VE ARc- ?YING TO EVALUATE THE SITUATION," DEt ID., HE AD5ED 'MAT TNE UNITED STATES 1- CI'J 0 RE,2ECT FOR COMITIM1 Fla', THE NEV SOVERTIENT OP P2,73IDENT NIEO7 SArIPSne Af10:25C1 2AID IN A PREPARED STATZfiENT TNAT THE UNITED STATES IS iniAnne "COTTE;UOUS DIPLO:lATIC CONTaCT .r1T7J ALL n'TErTSTEr, SiT7U7S IN TR7:Ia CAPITALS AND AT TH7 WITTED NATICN!; TH7 x.ort* CF. EVE:ITIf:G FURTHE1 DESTAZILIZATIO:'; Or THE CYPRUS SITUATICNI."0 IN CIITM17$ CL:A2 A!'1D.TNETEF02E, IN 0112 THE flUECTION Cr 72nOGIITICN DC:r! T 'ISL ?0'J.' T7.?n1)7.-.T:SSIT?REPEATFD T!-1 LLC ATMUNC7D IrMDY iloNDA7 AND. RTKATEn ON TUE7AY, T17.1.flITED STATES ? 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AT :MC pENTAGON, GrFICIfIS SAID r:-r:: o sigNIFIc=7 CHANGE TIZS7.1.AY I:1 THE OPERATING PATTERNS OF U,S, IUD SOVIET FLEETS I7:; THE. 4A41, - -1774 43157EDT No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 25X1 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7 25X1 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-123-1-15-7. ? ******* SECRET OP IMMED /PRIORITY ESA17717 OE plOMGQ #14 0 P 171800Z FM AMEmBASS TO SECSTATE WA Imt.IEDIATE 8859 INFO P1P,!54SSY A.;\,KAQ4 PQIORITY 3951 AME,IBASSY ,:ATHENS PRIORITY 4467 AMEMBASSY LONDON PRIORITYYGEROP USmISSIoN US!!H PRI.C2RITY 4291 USmISSION NATO PRIORITY 1892 USCIMEUR PRIORITY USDOCOSOUTH PRI1RITY USEUCOM PRIORITY CIA WASHDC /101-5// PRIORITY SECRETNICOSIA 1442 E.0._11652: GDS TAGS: PFt1R PINT CV ( "U8JFCT: TURKISH CHARGE'S VIEWS ON SITUATION IN CYPRUS .jumm6RY: TORKIS CHARGE I\4FORmE0 AMBASSADOR JULY 17 THAT /V Tuo