The President of the Rizokarpasso Association, Mary Karaolis, joined other members of the Secretariat of the National Federation of Cypriots in the U.K. to deliver a resolution to the Turkish Ambassador on the anniversary of the illegal ‘UDI’ by the occupation regime on 15 November

The Association of Rizokarpasso in Britain was represented at the Parliamentary reception “Cyprus geostrategic role: prospects and challenges”, organised by the All Party Parliamentary Group Chairman, Bambos Charalambous MP, and President of the National Federation of Cypriots UK, Christos Karaolis. After the speeches the President of the Association of Rizokarpasso, Mary Karaolis, took the opportunity to raise the problems in Rizokarpasso with the guest speaker Cyprus Foreign Minister, Dr Constantinos Kombos, the Solicitor General Sarah Sackman MP, the Shadow UK Foreign Secretary Dame Priti Patel MP and with other UK Parliamentarians present. Of particular concern were the human rights of the enclaved in Rizokarpasso as well as the rights of the owners of properties who are denied access, use and benefit from their properties occupied by thousands of illegal settlers in Rizokarpasso.