The preservation of historical memory is the highest condition for the successful outcome of the struggle we are waging today for the liberation of our homeland, said tonight the President of the Republic, Nikos Christodoulides, at the inauguration of the "Freedom Museum" of the Liberation Struggle of EOKA 1955-'59, in Chloraka.

In this corner of the Cypriot land and, more specifically, in this poor house of Nikolas and Panagiotou Azina, which was built in 1945, the first glorious pages of the revolt of our people began to be written, the purest and most selfless struggle that our parents and our grandparents gave to win the right to become masters of our homeland themselves, Said. On November 10, 1954, when after an adventurous voyage the boat "Sirin" arrived on the shore of "Aliki" of Chloraka, carrying Georgios Grivas Digenis, his adjutant, Notis Petropouleas and Socrates Loizides, a member of the Struggle Committee from Athens, they found shelter and some food for survival here.

In this house, the President of the Republic also stressed, the first weapons of the Struggle were kept, which had been smuggled again with the boat "Sirin" in March 1954. They were the weapons in which the first Greek Cypriot fighters were trained and then began to be distributed to fighters throughout Cyprus.

Despite its great historical value and its enormous symbolism, this place is not particularly well known and certainly did not receive the recognition it deserves, he remarked, thanking Prodromos Prodromou that as Minister of Education he received the proposal to the Council of Ministers, to convert it into a Museum of Freedom.

This Museum should be visited by all schools in Cyprus, starting from the schools of Paphos to the free Famagusta, so that our children know our History. And I say this about the need to know and transmit the history of our country, especially to the younger generation, especially to the citizens of tomorrow and to the future leaders of this country.

President Christodoulidis also announced that the Government has undertaken the financial support of two other projects for the EOKA struggle. One in Kannavia, he said, is the house which was a hideout and at the monument of the Leader of EOKA Georgios Grivas Digenis in Limassol, the shelter which was requested and will be made by the Government.