Posts tagged with "AKEL"

Turkish Cypriot on Akel ballot for EU elections Cyprus

Turkish Cypriot on Akel ballot for EU elections

January 19th, 2019 Main opposition party, Akel, announced on Saturday their candidates for the European parliamentary elections to be held in May and have included Turkish Cypriot academic Niyazi Kizilyurek on their ballot. The candidates from the Akel party are as follows: Giorgos Georgiou (MP), Chrysanthos Georgiou (the head of the Cyprus National...
Kyprianou appeals to foreign diplomats to influence Turkey Cyprus Talks

Kyprianou appeals to foreign diplomats to influence Turkey

January 16th, 2019 Akel leader Andros Kyprianou on Wednesday called on foreign diplomats to exert influence on Turkey to cooperate in good faith to resolve the Cyprus issue for the benefit of all Cypriots and the wider region. Kyprianou was addressing the diplomatic corps at the annual lunch hosted by the party for foreign ambassadors to the...
Umbrella demo against high rents in Limassol Cyprus

Umbrella demo against high rents in Limassol

December 15th, 2018 Scores of Akel members and party-affiliated youth and student organisations holding umbrellas symbolising house roofs gathered on Saturday in a central area of Limassol to protest over high rents and demand rent regulation. The protest was organised by Akel, its youth organisation Edon and student body Proodeftiki which is affiliated...
Kyprianou challenges president to be honest Cyprus Talks

Kyprianou challenges president to be honest

November 29th, 2018 By George Psyllides Akel chief Andros Kyprianou said the president’s suggestion that he was putting party above country was insulting and he challenged Nicos Anastasiades to have the courage to say so if he thought the current deadlock in the talks was an option. Speaking after a meeting with the president on Thursday morning,...
Anastasiades calls Akel criticisms unjustifiable Cyprus Talks

Anastasiades calls Akel criticisms unjustifiable

November 28th, 2018 President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday he has been unjustifiably criticised by main opposition Akel over his handling of the reunification talks whose collapse is being pinned on him rather than Turkey’s intransigence on certain issues. The president denied exchanging barbs with Akel, arguing he has been on the receiving end...
Akel and Diko seek to find some common ground Cyprus

Akel and Diko seek to find some common ground

November 27th, 2018 The leaders of left-wing Akel and centre-right Diko met on Tuesday to try and find common ground despite their ideological differences on the Cyprus issue and divergences on economic policy. Asked by reporters whether the meeting was held to “send a message” to President Nicos Anastasiades to return to the agreed basis for talks...
Decentralised federation means partition says Akel (Updated) Cyprus Talks

Decentralised federation means partition says Akel (Updated)

November 26th, 2018   Any rejection of a bizonal, bicommunal federation (BBF) will lead only to partition and not some imaginary ‘decentralised federation’, Akel leader Andros Kyprianou said on Monday. Kyprianou was speaking at a news conference four days after he met with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Turkey. He has remained...
Kyprianou keeps own counsel after Cavusoglu dinner Cyprus Talks

Kyprianou keeps own counsel after Cavusoglu dinner

November 23rd, 2018 By Evie Andreou Akel leader, Andros Kyprianou, said on Friday he would brief President Nicos Anastasiades on his meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, which took place in the latter’s home in Ankara, but that he would only make public what was said if it was deemed necessary. Kyprianou, who travelled to Ankara...
Akel rejects notion of Nato taking on guarantor role (updated) Cyprus

Akel rejects notion of Nato taking on guarantor role (updated)

November 20th, 2018 As was expected, main opposition Akel said Tuesday it would never accept a solution to the Cyprus problem with Nato guarantees and troops on the island. “Nato’s involvement in the solution puts Cyprus and its people before new adventures and dangers,” party spokesman Stephanos Stephanou said. “Akel, which is the main axis and...
President’s new plan dismissed as ‘coffeeshop talk’ Cyprus Talks

President’s new plan dismissed as ‘coffeeshop talk’

November 9th, 2018 President Nicos Anastasiades’ decentralised federation proposal will prove to be mere coffeeshop talk that would only raise more problems in the reunification talks, main opposition Akel leader said on Friday. Speaking at a news conference, Kyprianou said the UN secretary-general had asked the two leaders to provide a simple answer...
Anastasiades dragging his feet on Cyprob, Kyprianou says. Cyprus Talks

Anastasiades dragging his feet on Cyprob, Kyprianou says.

October 25th, 2018 By George Psyllides Main opposition AKEL leader Andros Kyprianou on Thursday accused the president of dragging his feet on the Cyprus problem, suggesting that his policy was leading things to the fulfilment of the vision of former Turkish Cypriot Rauf Denktash of a two-state solution. Kyprianou kept piling the pressure on Nicos...
Pessimistic party leaders say solution slipping away Cyprus Talks

Pessimistic party leaders say solution slipping away

October 3rd, 2018 Five days ahead of a party-leaders briefing by President Nicos Anastasiades on his contacts in New York last week, the leaders of the two main parties, ruling Disy and opposition Akel, on Wednesday warned that the future of Cyprus negotiations was in jeopardy. Akel’s Andros Kyprianou said he feared there would soon be no Turkish...
Akel says other parties siding with employers as inspection vote postponed again Cyprus

Akel says other parties siding with employers as inspection vote postponed again

September 28th, 2018 Akel on Friday accused ruling Disy of serving the interests of employers after the party sought a postponement, for the second time, of the vote on a government bill that calls for the creation of a unified labour inspection service. Discussion of the bill was postponed again on Friday at the behest of Disy, which had also asked for...
Fears that Anastasiades will lay down conditions for new talks   Cyprus Talks

Fears that Anastasiades will lay down conditions for new talks  

September 23rd, 2018 Opposition Akel on Sunday questioned President Nicos Anastasiades’ commitment to a resumption of talks suggesting he would lay down conditions that would stop UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres from recommending a new round of negotiations. The comments came shortly after Anastasiades landed in New York for the UN General...
Akel blasts Neophytou over Russia comments Cyprus

Akel blasts Neophytou over Russia comments

September 11th, 2018 Main opposition Akel said on Tuesday that ruling party leader Averof Neophytou must think twice before making reference to foreign states, especially UN Security Council members, a day after the Russian embassy issued a statement suggesting he was acting on behalf of other countries in trying to ruin relations between Moscow and...
Talks must restart immediately say Kyprianou and Tsipras Cyprus Talks

Talks must restart immediately say Kyprianou and Tsipras

July 25th, 2018 Negotiations on the Cyprus problem need to start immediately and they need to end positively, Akel general-secretary Andros Kyprianou and Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday. Speaking after a meeting at Tsipras’ office, Kyprianou said “negotiations have to restart and this time go to the end, not just based...
President criticised for ‘two-state’ comments Cyprus Talks

President criticised for ‘two-state’ comments

June 25th, 2018 President Nicos Anastasiades was criticised on Monday by opposition Akel over his defence of comments he made in an interview published on Friday. Anastasiades seemed to suggest in the interview with lifo.gr, in answer to a question about a two-state solution, that the Greek Cypriot political leadership should, given Turkish...
Akel suggests limiting term of government officials Cyprus

Akel suggests limiting term of government officials

June 19th, 2018 Main opposition Akel confirmed it has been preparing a number of proposals on ways to boost democracy and transparency and one of them is limiting the term of independent officials such as the Attorney-general and the Auditor-general who currently remain in office until retirement, it was reported on Tuesday. Akel spokesman Stefanos...
AG says he knows the law after being called on to probe Co-op (updated) Cyprus

AG says he knows the law after being called on to probe Co-op (updated)

June 19th, 2018 Attorney-general Costas Clerides said on Tuesday he knew his job well and didn’t need encouragement or prompting on whether he would launch a probe into the possibility of wrongdoing at the Co-op bank. The AG was commenting on a letter sent to him by main opposition Akel asking him to investigate the Co-op sale to Hellenic bank and...
No home for the moderate leftist in Cyprus Opinion

No home for the moderate leftist in Cyprus

June 17th, 2018 IN Cyprus there is some confusion regarding the definition of ‘leftist’ which may be explained by the absence of different tendencies within the left. The history of Cyprus, at least until the Turkish invasion, registered a polarisation of the political forces. There was the nationalist right, representing the church and bourgeoisie...
Peaceniks march on Akrotiri airbase, Kyprianou slams government Cyprus

Peaceniks march on Akrotiri airbase, Kyprianou slams government

June 10th, 2018 Akel leader Andros Kyprianou on Sunday accused the Anastasiades government of being complicit in the deaths of thousands of people in the region, from Gaza to Syria, by remaining silent on the role of the British bases. Kyprianou was one of the main speakers at a protest march on Akrotiri RAF base, organised by the Cyprus Peace...
Akel: talks’ impasse serves those ‘flirting’ with non-solution Cyprus Talks

Akel: talks’ impasse serves those ‘flirting’ with non-solution

June 2nd, 2018 Akel general-secretary Andros Kyprianou said on Saturday that the perpetuation of the current Cyprus problem situation only serves those “flirting” with a non-solution. Speaking at the third annual conference ‘The Left in Cyprus’, Kyprianou said the lack of any moves on the negotiations “has serious consequences for the...
Our View: Anastasiades resorts to the tactics used against him Our View

Our View: Anastasiades resorts to the tactics used against him

May 31st, 2018 WE have come full circle when President Anastasiades resorts to the same intimidation tactics he was the target of some 14 years ago. Back then he campaigned in favour of accepting the Annan plan and criticised the Papadopoulos government for spurning the best ever opportunity for a settlement. During the referendum campaign he had...
Historic turn as Omonia taken over by private company Cyprus

Historic turn as Omonia taken over by private company

May 30th, 2018 In what was described as a historic move, Nicosia football club Omonia has been taken over by a private company following a decision at a general assembly of its members on Tuesday. The decision, however, has irked its organized fans, Gate 9, who said they will not support the new state of affairs and will create a new Omonia that...
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