Peace Talks

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman has described issues concerning children of mixed marriages, Maronite children and pupils at the Greek Cypriot school in Rizokarpaso as matters of human rights which ...

The Greek Cypriot side has accused the Turkish Cypriot side of following a “pattern of obstruction” which is preventing efforts to accelerate moves towards renewed Cyprus talks, negotiator Menelaos Menelaou ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Monday excoriated President Nikos Christodoulides’ course of action during the United Nations’ “high-level week” in New York, saying that in the circumstances, a tripartite ...

United Nations Cyprus problem envoy Maria Angela Holguin on Monday said that the window of opportunity for progress to be made on the Cyprus problem is closing, at the end ...

Deputy government spokesman Yiannis Antoniou on Monday said that former Disy leader Averof Neophytou’s comments on the Cyprus problem were “counterproductive”, after Neophytou had a day earlier lamented that ...

The UN will continue efforts to create the conditions for a new round of Cyprus talks, with the UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin set to return to ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Saturday met United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York, and afterwards denied assertions made by ...

The Greek Cypriot side asked diplomats and representatives of governments attending the United Nations general assembly in New York to “refrain” from meeting Turkish Cypriots, the Cyprus Mail has been ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York to discuss the Cyprus problem, among other ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met on Thursday in New York with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, saying later that the UN chief is “considering” a three-way meeting, noting though that there ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis met the United Nations’ Cyprus problem envoy Maria Angela Holguin in New York, the Greek foreign ministry said on Thursday. Neither Gerapetritis, nor Holguin made ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told British Prime Minister Andy Burnham that any solution to the Cyprus problem must guarantee the “equal international status” of the Turkish Cypriots, when the ...

The United Nations is “continuing its efforts” on the Cyprus problem, its envoy Maria Angela Holguin said, after she met President Nikos Christodoulides on the sidelines of the UN general ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday “exchanged views on the Cyprus problem” when they met on the sidelines of the UN general assembly ...

The “sovereign equality and equal international status of the Turkish Cypriot people” must be recognised, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, as he addressed the United Nations general ...

United States ambassador John Breslow on Tuesday stressed his country’s support for a solution to the Cyprus problem after he met Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman. “The United States ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Tuesday called for the next enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem to be one at which “success is guaranteed”, ahead of his trip to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday evening refused to rule out the prospect of developments of note occurring on the Cyprus problem this week, saying that “behind-the-scenes” meetings on the sidelines ...

Efforts being made to bring about the resumption of talks on the Cyprus problem are being undertaken so as to “transform Cyprus into a normal, modern, European state”, government spokesman ...

Greece is aiming for the next enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem “to be a success”, the country’s President Constantine Tassoulas said, as he welcomed his Cypriot counterpart Nikos ...

A rotating presidency between the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities in a post-solution Cyprus constitutes an “indispensable component of political equality”, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman’s undersecretary Mehmet ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman said on Thursday that conditions for a new 5+1 meeting on the Cyprus problem have not yet been met. Speaking after talks with President Nikos Christodoulides, ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Wednesday said that United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had demanded that progress be made on seven separate topics on the Cyprus problem, and declared ...

There is a prospect for “concrete steps” towards progress on the Cyprus problem ahead of meetings in New York, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Wednesday, adding that the Greek ...