Cyprus Talks

Opposition Turkish Cypriot leadership election candidate Tufan Erhurman and former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci both accused the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel of misinformation on Thursday, after Ustel ...

Green party leader Stavros Papadouris on Thursday wrote to United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin, asking her to meet him. The party said Papadouris had a detailed assessment of the ...

Turkish Cypriot Nicosia mayor Mehmet Harmanci on Wednesday told United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin that the idea of a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem is an “illusion” and “...

This year must be a week of solutions, not impressions, United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres said overnight speaking at the UN headquarters in New York ahead of the high-level week ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin on Monday pledged to “continue working and having hope to resume the talks” to solve the Cyprus problem. Speaking after a meeting with Turkish ...

The leaders of Cyprus’ two communities “have to make decisions” for there to be progress towards the implementation of new confidence-building measures between Cyprus’ two sides, United Nations envoy Maria ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will attend a trilateral meeting in New York later this month with the UNSG and Turkish Cypriot leader with sincere will to facilitate the mission of the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday night said President Nikos Christodoulides is using the matter of crossing points between the island’s two sides as “political blackmail”. He said ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin will return to Cyprus next week, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ spokesman Stephane Dujarric confirmed on Friday evening. He confirmed that she will meet President Nikos ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday promised “further policies” to aid displaced persons and their descendants at a meeting with mukhtars-in-exile. “We will look at the issues which concern you and ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin’s planned visit to Cyprus on Monday was postponed. The postponement was confirmed to the Cyprus Mail by UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus spokesman ...

Former Greek deputy foreign minister Tasos Chatzivasileiou on Wednesday night called on the European Union and its member states to “not forget” Cyprus in conversations concerning the future of defence ...

Former president Nicos Anastasiades has been “politically lynched” by the Greek Cypriot political establishment over reports that he had offered Turkey a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem, former Turkish ...

Every corner of Cyprus “will be Europe”, opposition candidate at October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election Tufan Erhurman said at a campaign rally at Kyrenia port on Thursday night. “I ...

Cyprus’ permanent representative at the United Nations Maria Michael on Tuesday night told a security council debate that sexual violence during Turkey’s invasion of the island in 1974 “remains an ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin is expected to meet President Nikos Christodoulides on September 2, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday. He told the Cyprus News Agency that Holguin ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s rhetoric “will intensify even more” as October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election draws closer, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday. His comments come ...

Senegalese diplomat Khassim Diagne has been put forward as the United Nations’ new special representative in Cyprus, the Cyprus Mail understands. Diplomatic sources informed the Cyprus Mail that Diagne was ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday told outgoing United Nations special representative in Cyprus Colin Stewart that “your job description does not allow you to make such a statement”. ...

Outgoing United Nations special representative in Cyprus Colin Stewart on Tuesday said a solution to the Cyprus problem is “not for the United Nations to impose”. Speaking after a farewell ...

Outgoing United Nations special representative in Cyprus Colin Stewart on Monday said both sides of the island “have to listen to the other”. “You have to be willing to listen ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Sunday night expressed his fury at outgoing United Nations special representative in Cyprus Colin Stewart’s interviews given to news outlets, in which he ...

Despite not seeing any real negotiating framework develop in the four years he has been on the island, departing UN envoy Colin Stewart on Sunday said he thought the Cyrus ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said that “we can solve the Cyprus problem and reunite our homeland”. Speaking at a meeting with Famagusta’s Greek Cypriot city council-in-exile, he stressed ...