Cyprus Talks

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday that “it is time to reunite the last divided EU member state” during a reception at the presidential palace for the American Hellenic Educational ...

Athens blundered on the Cyprus issue after it emerged on Wednesday that the Greek government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis had mistakenly referred to expectations that a plan for solution to the ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s statements on a two-state solution are a sign of weakness, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday. His remarks come after Erdogan’s visit to the ...

Our wish and hope is that the two communities will take advantage of the new opportunity presented and sit down at the table to find a solution within the framework ...

It is becoming clearer by the day that the two-state model is the only solution to the Cyprus problem, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday. Speaking to reporters on ...

The Turkish parliament on Thursday night passed a resolution supporting a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem. The resolution, introduced by Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmus, stated that “the only and ...

Turkish opposition political party CHP leader Ozgur Ozel on Thursday evening said the north is not a “baby homeland”, but in fact a “sister country”. Ozel was speaking at late ...

There is not much to be optimistic about over the Cyprus issue at present, Disy leader Annita Demetriou said on Wednesday, a day after a snap meeting with Greek Premier ...

Cyprus’ future will remain in limbo unless the island adopts a mutual defense posture with Greece that is capable of deterring Turkey militarily, independent MP Andreas Themistocleous asserted on Monday. ...

House President Annita Demetriou on Monday urged that Greek Cypriots “dare to take the next step” in the Cyprus issue in a parliamentary speech to mark the July 1974 coup and ...

There will “soon” be a “substantial effort” to resolve the Cyprus problem, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. He was speaking at a ceremony to remember soldiers who died during ...

House President Annita Demetriou said on Sunday she “cannot be so optimistic or talk about optimism” with regard to the Cyprus problem. She was addressing student union Pofen’s annual ...

The foreign ministry on Sunday said it was largely pleased with the latest annual reports on Cyprus submitted by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Guterres had at the beginning of ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said that neither the Greek Cypriots nor the Turkish Cypriots “loved” the Republic of Cyprus when it was first established in 1960. Speaking to newspaper Kathimerini, ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he will exhaust all possibilities for the resumption of Cyprus negotiations, diplomatic sources said following his meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. After the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides promised on Friday there would be “good news” regarding the Cyprus problem “before the end of the year”. Speaking at an event to mark Bastille Day organised ...

Former British minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith visited the north on Friday, meeting Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, and calling for direct flights from the United Kingdom to the north’...

UN involvement in the Cyprus issue will be discussed later on Friday when Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis meets UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York. Mitsotakis affirmed on Thursday ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has received the report by his personal envoy to Cyprus and is studying it, a spokesperson for the UN chief confirmed late on Thursday. “The secretary-general ...

The government on Thursday conveyed its strong annoyance with opposition Disy leader Annita Demetriou over a scathing letter she sent the president concerning the Cyprus issue and the fatigue of ...

United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) chief Colin Stewart is to brief the UN Security Council on the latest state of the Cyprus problem on Thursday. Stewart will address ...

The international community is inching closer towards giving up on hopes of solving the Cyprus problem on the basis of a bizonal, bicommunal federation, Disy leader Annita Demetriou said in ...

Serdar Denktash, son of late Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, said on Wednesday it is “not possible” for the Turkish Cypriot people to “achieve our goals” if they do not ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin is on Wednesday expected to submit her report on Cyprus to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, as her tenure as envoy comes to an end. Her ...