Cyprus Talks

The Cyprus problem in 2024 started with a bang or two, then a whimper, then another bang and wimped out again by December, mid-year coming as it did on the 50th ...

Sometimes in moments of boredom, retired old Cyprob junkies with nothing better to do and to keep themselves amused however briefly on a rainy December morning might decide to ask ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday night announced that he would meet with President Nikos Christodoulides on either January 20 or January 21, and that the planned “enlarged meeting” on the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday reaffirmed his support for a new crossing point to be opened in Mia Milia, on the eastern edge of Nicosia. Speaking after a ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday told United Nations special representative Colin Stewart he is “ready” to discuss the opening of new crossing points with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar. Government ...

The fact that British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer did not visit the north during his trip to Cyprus last week is a good thing, the north’s ‘foreign minister’ ...

A Turkish official has accused the Republic of Cyprus of misrepresenting the truth and implementing a policy of isolation towards Turkish Cypriots to the UN, it emerged on Friday. In ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar are due to attend the annual end-of-year reception hosted by the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative Colin Stewart on Tuesday evening. ...

UN Assistant General Secretary Rosemary DiCarlo will visit Cyprus at the start of the new year, government sources confirmed on Monday. DiCarlo met Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos in Doha, Qatar ...

An AKEL delegation, led by the party’s general-secretary Stefanos Stefanou on Friday met with former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat in the north to discuss the Cyprus issue ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday said there is a fundamental difference between the positions of Cyprus’ two sides regarding the opening of new crossing points. Speaking to Kibris ...

Cyprus is “awaiting further actions from the United Nations” with regard to the planned enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem in the early part of next year, deputy government spokesman ...

Cypriot Member of the European Parliament Loucas Fourlas on Monday night launched a scathing attack on the European Union’s “hypocrisy” on the Cyprus problem. Addressing a European Parliament session ...

Turkish opposition party CHP MP and former ambassador to the United States Namik Tan on Friday said a federal solution to the Cyprus problem cannot be “thrown in the bin”. ...

House President Annita Demetriou said on Friday the Greek Cypriot side is “only asking for what the resolutions contain” in its efforts to resolve the Cyprus problem. The resolutions to ...

Recent statements by a top UN official constitute yet more proof of the body’s commitment to efforts to resume the Cyprus negotiations within the UN framework, a government source ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said he would be ready to hold meetings with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar regarding the opening of new crossing points as early as next ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Saturday ruled out the possibility of a resumption of talks to solve the Cyprus problem and reiterated his position for a two-state solution. Speaking ...

Improved relations between Greece and Turkey have “created positive conditions for the Cyprus problem”, Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said on Thursday. Speaking to Turkish newspaper Hurriyet, he said both ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in person in Budapest ahead of the European Political Community’s summit in the Hungarian capital on Thursday. Christodoulides and ...

The Athienou municipality on Thursday demanded a crossing point be opened in the nearby village of Pyroi, ahead of a planned meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides. A delegation of seven ...

The north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu on Thursday said the Greek Cypriot leadership is “dizzy from American pampering”. Reacting to President Nikos Christodoulides’ meeting with United States President Joe ...

There is no middle ground between legality and illegality, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said, adding that nothing will be discussed in terms of the Cyprus problem outside the agreed framework. ...

We have a specific plan for the Cyprus problem, which we have been implementing since day one, and is slowly bringing results, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday without downplaying ...