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President Nicos Anastasiades, who is in New York for the UN General Assembly, and a meeting with UN chief Antonio Guterres said on arrival that...
President ready to pursue talks, says spokesman
To get a positive result in reunification talks Turkey must drop its insistence on positions that cannot be accepted by the Greek Cypriot side, government...
Power struggle to sack mufti in north
Community leader Mustafa Akinci has challenged the north’s “Prime Minister” Huseyin Ozgurgun to provide legitimate grounds and solid evidence to back up the latter’s demand for the...
Turkish Cypriots need to react to Ankara’s actions, spokesman says
Turkish Cypriots should react to Anakara’s actions in the north by pursuing reunification, Government Spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said on Sunday. Speaking to journalist, Christodoulides said...
Anastasiades says no connection between election and Cyprob efforts
PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades said Saturday there was no connection between next year’s presidential elections and efforts to reunify the island, as he reiterated his readiness...
Poor management of TC land ‘going on for decades’
INTERIOR Minister Constantinos Petrides on Friday announced measures designed to halt the apparent misappropriation of Turkish Cypriot properties that has been going on for decades...
President taken to task for sending private letters on talks
Critics of Nicos Anastasiades on Monday slammed the president over a private and confidential letter he sent to select people, including a number of journalists...
Celik says talks are over, Cavusoglu says Greek Cypriots making excuses
Turkey’s EU Minister, Omer Celik said on Thursday that the Cyprus settlement talks were “not suspended, nor frozen”, but “over”. In his statements following his...
Cyprus marks second wave of 1974 invasion
Cyprus was on Monday marking the 43rd anniversary of when the Turkish military launched its second offensive occupying the best part of Mesaoria, Famagusta, Karpasia and...
Vassiliou: there is no new strategy for talks
By Elias Hazou The longer the current deadlock in the Cyprus peace process drags on, and absent any negotiations, the more detrimental it is to...