‘I will not become the president of partition’

President Nikos Christodoulides stressed he would “not become the president of partition” and that the continuation of the Republic of Cyprus was an “absolute red line”.

Speaking on Monday evening at an event at the presidential palace to mark the coup d’état and the Turkish invasion, on July 15 and 20, 1974, respectively, Christodoulides said a two-state solution or a disguised confederation was not up for discussion....