UNFICYP / BUFFER ZONE

Unficyp at 60: after arriving for a three-month period the peace keeping force is far and away the longest serving in the history of the UN Monday marks exactly 60 years since ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is disappointed over the lack of progress in resuming Cyprus talks and has called on both sides not to miss other opportunities for dialogue. The comments ...

A year ago the first checkpoints were closed to stop the spread of the pandemic. It now remains practically impossible to move or trade from one side to the other, ...

The British contingent of the United Nations peacekeepers in Cyprus (Unficyp) has almost finished setting up its new camp on the grounds of the Ledra Palace hotel inside the Green ...

Below is an excerpt of what Roman Robroek saw as UN soldiers escorted him along the green line The first buildings I saw and photographed were the Ayios Kassianos schools. ...

This exclusive video shows Nicosia International Airport as it is today: chained and padlocked, strewn with razor wire, windows pierced by bullets. Once the island’s only international airport, it ...

By Michael Theodoulou The narrowest part of the UN-controlled buffer zone that splits Cyprus runs through the historic, Venetian era-walled heart of old Nicosia, Europe’s last divided capital. Flanked ...

By Michael Theodoulou The UN’s peacekeeping force in Cyprus, Unficyp, was formally established in March 1964 for a period of three months. This “temporary” force, as it was originally described, ...

By James Ker Lindsay This week saw the fiftieth anniversary of a true milestone in the history of the Cyprus problem – the establishment of Unficyp, the United Nations Peacekeeping Force ...