REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS TAKES ON AGBU IN MELKONIAN CASE
Nicosia - Cyprus Attorney General Petros Clerides, as the legal representative of the Republic of Cyprus, is expected to take court action against the AGBU within the next two or three weeks in an effort to resume the campaign to save the Melkonian school in Nicosia and aim for its earliest operation.
Some 50 members of the Armenian community, Representative Vartkes Mahdessian and Melkonian alumni who gathered in Nicosia on Monday night heard lawyers Costas Velaris and Christina Sarris say that the Attorney General, who has received several hundred letters, e-mails and pressure, will take action on behalf of the Armenian community of Cyprus.
Attorney General Clerides, however, will re-appoint the trio of Velaris, Sarris and former Attorney General Alecos Markides to undertake the case in his name as they have nearly two years' worth of preparatory work and documentation. The three lawyers had in the past-represented Patriarch Mutafyan in the Cyprus cases against the AGBU.
On the issue of payment it was made clear that the Attorney General has appointed the three lawyers, but he will not pay for legal costs, to which Costas Velaris seemed unconcerned, saying "there is no need to deal with that issue right now". Velaris appealed to the members of the community or anybody else in the world to come forward with information or documentation that could help the case.
He added that "this time" there would be transparency in the communication of information and any progress report, with Christina Sarris saying any report and information would be posted on any website of the community's choice.
Responding to calls from the audience to adopt a "proper" channel of communication through the Armenian MP's office and then to use the community's hierarchy of political and other organisations, Velaris said "anyone wishing to contact us may do so", but added that he and his co-counsels did not want to get involved in the local politics of the small community, where he assumed that "there is no one who wants to see the destruction of the Melkonian."
At the same time both Velaris and Sarris contradicted themselves by saying in separate statements that "the action would be in the name of the Armenian community of Cyprus" while in other statements they said that "the beneficiaries, according to the spirit of the Melkonian Trust, are ALL the Armenians around the world."
Velaris was also caustic about some of the obstacles that the case has faced, adding that no one or any organization had contacted the three lawyers with a compromise deal or offer and neither were there any threats or suggestions.
"Unfortunately the government of Armenia has sided with the AGBU in this matter," he said, while he also expressed his dismay at the "stupid" decision of some judges in Cyprus courts, such as the case of the overturning of the first preservation order on the Melkonian estate.
The authority of Interior Minister Neoklis Sylikiotis has since reinstated the preservation order. As regards the future structure of the Melkonian, Christina Sarris said that as the Attorney General has undertaken the case, he also has the supreme authority to appoint the trustees of the school and its estate in the future.
Sarris also mentioned that "as far as I know the Melkonian will be used by the nearby Aghlandjia state school" that had structural problem and two construction workers were killed, and that the move would be "from the new school year, in September." Some other suggestions and rumours were raised during the meeting, but Gibrahayer Newsletter will refrain from publishing them as they were not supported with any concrete evidence.
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