CYPRUS: INDEPENDENCE DAY MARKED WITH MILITARY PARADE

Record ID: 451588

  • Title: CYPRUS: INDEPENDENCE DAY MARKED WITH MILITARY PARADE
  • Date: 2nd October 1985
  • Summary: 1. GV Crowds lining streets 0.04 2. GV ZOOM TO SV & GV Cypriot President Kyprianou arrives by car as crowd and camera crews stand by (2 shots) 0.20 3. GV PANS Artillery vehicles pass by as Kyprianou and officials take salute and band plays (2 shots) 0.41 4. GV's & GV PAN Motorcycles and rocket launchers pass by as representatives of armed services stand to attention and children wave flags (4 shots) 0.58 5. GV & SV PULL BACK TO GV Armoured vehicles pass by as crowd look on (2 shots) 1.22 6. GV PAN Sailors pass by 1.39 7. GV Divers march past in frogman suits 1.43 8. SV & GV People watch from balcony as officer salutes Kyprianou and shakes hands with officials (2 shots) 2.01 InitialsBB/ACM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 17th October 1985 13:00
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  • Location: NICOSIA, CYPRUS
  • Country: Cyprus
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAF50R2E7TUF94S8G527RM6ZKQ9
  • Story Text: NICOSIA, CYPRUS

    Cyprus marked the 25th anniversary of its independence from the UK on October 1 with a military parade through the streets of Nicosia. Coloured banners and streamers lined the parade route as infantry and armoured units of the Greek Cypriot national guard marched past the reviewing stand where President Spyros Kyprianou, Defence Minister Elias Eliades and military officials took the salute. The parade was a show of the country's military capabilities and featured rocket launchers, armoured personnel carriers, troops on foot and navy divers wearing underwater equipment. School children lined the streets cheering and waving flags. The UK granted Cyprus independence in 1960 after a military campaign by the Greek Cypriot nationalist guerrilla organisation EOKA. The October 1 anniversary was not commenorated in the Turkish Cypriot part of the island in the north which unilaterally declared independence in 1983. The island has been divided into ethnic Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities since 1974 when Turkish troops invaded after a coup attempt backed by the Greek military government.

    <strong>Source: PHOTOSMART</strong>
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