place against a background of aggressive warnongering rhetoric' which is also fed by provocative staLements from the Greek Ambassador in south Cyprus'A/44/937 S/21245 English Page4 3.Activities intheUnited States Congress. Following theNewYorkmeeting, during which Mr.Vassiliou didnothing positive orconstructive, hewenttoWashington toalerttheGreeklobbytotakeup armsagainst theTurkish side. Theoccasion ofthereview bytheCongress of foreign assistance forthefiscal year1991wasagainritualistically abused bythe Greeklobby, whosepastrecord showsthatitisnotinterested inpromoting reconciliation andacompromise settlement inCyprus, butonlyactsasthe mouthpiece ofGreekandGreekCypriot interests, andwhoseviews andactions, therefore, areneither fair,norbalanced. 4.TheInter-parliamentary Unionmeeting insouthCyprus. TheannualInter-parliamentary Union(IPU)meeting washeldinsouthCyprus from2to7April1990. Theoccasion wasseized bytheGreekCypriot sideasan opportunity foranall-out propaganda offensive tovilify theTurkish Cypriot people andtodistort thefactsabouttheCyprusquestion. Participating parliamentarians wereprevented fromcontacting orvisiting thenorth, whichwas easilyaccessible tothemfromtheLedraPalace bordergate. TheSpeaker ofthe GreekCypriot HouseofRepresentatives, Mr.Lissarides, inaletter addressed to theparticipants, openlycalled uponandadvised themnottocontact thelegitimate representatives oftheTurkish Cypriot people. Invitations senttothe participants fromthenorthwereeither notdistributed orconfiscated. Parliamentarians whoattempted tocrossovertothenorthwere,inmanycases, physically barred ordissuaded fromdoingsobyGreekCypriot demonstrators who kepttheLedraPalace border gateeffectively closed. Onlytheverydaring and persistent succeeded incoming tothenorth, someonlythrough theassistance of UNFICYP. During themeeting, alltelephone, telexandte1efax communication with thenorthwascutoff. Mr.Vassiliou andotherGreekCypriot leaders took advantage ofthissituation tomisuse theoccasion toattack theTurkish sidein theirstatements intheIPUmeetings. Finally, aGreekCypriot draftresolution, whichcontained paragraphs basedonthetraditional GreekCypriot propaganda themes anddemands thatareincompatible withSecurity Council resolution 649(1990), was pushed through theconference. Naturally, boththeapproach andthemajorelements ofCouncil resolution 649(1990) weremissing intheGreekCypriot draft. 5.TheGreekCypriot rearmament campaign. TheGreekCypriot leadership ispursuing itsprogramme ofarmspurchases and other rearmament measures. TheDefence Minister oftheGreekCypriot Administration ofSouthern Cyprus hasrecently onceagainpaidavisittoFrance, whichistheonlypermanent member oftheSecurity Council selling sophisticated weapons andmilitary equipment totheGreekCypriot side. Hehasannounced that thelatest expenditure onvarious categories ofmilitary hardware amounts to 220million United Statesdollars. TheGreekCypriot military build-up istaking placeagainst abackground ofaggressive warmongering rhetoric, whichisalsofed byprovocative statements fromtheGreekAmbassador insouthCyprus. I ... Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld LibraryA/ 44/ 937 s/2].245 English Page 5 6. Terrorism in south Cyprus and EOKA activities.
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the political tensions and conflicts surrounding the Cyprus issue, with a focus on the activities of the Greek Cypriot leadership and their relationships with international organizations and countries. It highlights the rhetoric and actions of the Greek Cypriot side as being provocative and aggressive, and discusses the impact of these actions on the situation in Cyprus.

**Category**
International relations, Politics