NICOSIA: A Cypriot publisher has pledged to remain on hunger strike
until authorities cancel plans to give the Queen the key to Nicosia
later this month. Christos Andreou, 45, who began his protest on Friday
in Nicosia's central square, said: ''I will stay here until the Queen
comes. I won't move even when she is here. I will only leave if they
decide not to give her the key.'' The Queen is visiting to head the
Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting on October 21 and Nicosia's
Council last week voted to present her with the golden key of the
divided city.
Yesterday relatives of nine Greek Cypriot guerrillas hanged by Britain
during the pre-independence struggle in the 1950s demanded an apology
from the Queen and stood in front of a mock gallows with nine nooses.
Andreou, who has published books on the Eoka fighters, says the Queen
should pay her respects at their graves. But President Glafcos Clerides
said any action expressing disapproval at her presence would harm
efforts towards a settlement on the divided island and ran contrary to
the traditional hospitality of Greek Cypriots.
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