Posts tagged with "checkpoints"

Meeting to discuss opening of checkpoint at Kokkina Cyprus

Meeting to discuss opening of checkpoint at Kokkina

January 16th, 2019 Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots met in Paphos on Wednesday to discuss opening a checkpoint at Kokkina on the north-west coast. Greek Cypriot negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis attended the meeting, along with the Greek Cypriot joint chairman of the Technical Committee on Crossings, Sotos Zacheos. The Turkish Cypriot mayor of...
More TCs from UK travelling to north via Republic Cyprus

More TCs from UK travelling to north via Republic

November 26th, 2018 The number of Turkish Cypriots travelling from the UK to Tymbou (Ercan) airport in the north has fallen almost 18 per cent since the start of the year while the number coming in to the island via Larnaca and Paphos has jumped 4.2 per cent in the same period, reports in the north said on Monday. According to Kibris newspaper, the...
Dherynia checkpoint operating smoothly says mayor Cyprus

Dherynia checkpoint operating smoothly says mayor

November 13th, 2018 Traffic across the Dherynia crossing has been smooth with no problems, the town’s mayor said on Tuesday 24 hours after the checkpoint was opened. “Civil society responded positively and had gathered there early in the morning waiting for the checkpoint’s opening at noon to cross over to the north,” Dherynia mayor Andros...
New crossings open at Dherynia and Lefka–Apliki (Update 3) Cyprus

New crossings open at Dherynia and Lefka–Apliki (Update 3)

November 12th, 2018 More than three years after the Cypriot leaders agreed to open checkpoints at Dherynia on the east coast and Lefka-Aplikli some 50km from the capital, hundreds of people from both sides queued up early on Monday to finally make the long-awaited crossing, others to express their opposition. For most it was another step towards peace...
ELAM demo calls for all checkpoints to be closed Cyprus

ELAM demo calls for all checkpoints to be closed

November 11th, 2018 Members of ELAM turned out in force on Saturday night for a demonstration in Dherynia against the opening of any more checkpoints held under the slogan ‘Close all checkpoints NOW’. The event was held a few metres away from the place Tassos Issak and Solomos Solomou were killed during anti occupation demonstrations in August...
Elam seeking to prevent opening of new crossing points Cyprus

Elam seeking to prevent opening of new crossing points

November 7th, 2018 Far right Elam party said on Wednesday that it would deliver a signed petition to the Presidential Palace on Thursday calling for two new checkpoints not to be opened next week and for the existing ones to be closed. New checkpoints at Dherynia and Lefka are due to be opened on November 12. The party said that a delegation, headed...
Famagusta mayor uneasy over Dherynia opening Cyprus

Famagusta mayor uneasy over Dherynia opening

June 25th, 2018 Famagusta mayor Alexis Galanos expressed reservations on Monday over the opening of a crossing point in Dherynia which would link the area with northern Cyprus. Speaking at a news conference, Galanos said he wanted to convey the concerns of Famagusta refugees over whether “there should be a postponement of the crossing point’s...
'Frank exchange of views' at leaders' meeting (Update 3) Cyprus Talks

'Frank exchange of views' at leaders' meeting (Update 3)

April 16th, 2018 The leaders of the two communities, President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, held a frank and open exchange of views the UN said on Monday after the two men met for dinner for the first time since talks collapsed in Switzerland last July. The aim of the meeting – hosted by UN Secretary-General’s...
UniteCyprusNow calls for more checkpoints to open Cyprus

UniteCyprusNow calls for more checkpoints to open

March 20th, 2018 Pro reunification group UniteCyprusNow on Tuesday urged the leaders of the island’s divided communities to uphold their promise and immediately open two crossing points they agreed on in 2015. In a written statemen, UCN said the Dherynia and Lefka crossing points, which Nicos Anastasiades and Mustafa Akinci decided to open in May...
TCs view GCs far more positively than 10 years ago, surveys show Cyprus Talks

TCs view GCs far more positively than 10 years ago, surveys show

January 6th, 2018   Contact between the two communities over the years has dispelled many prejudices and political narratives and Turkish Cypriots view Greek Cypriots in a more positive light but they still don’t want mixed cohabitation, the results of three University of Cyprus surveys since 2007 have shown. According to University of Cyprus...
Fined for smuggling fighting roosters News in Brief

Fined for smuggling fighting roosters

March 6th, 2017 Customs said on Monday that in the space of a few days they had seized 12kg of dairy products and two live roosters at crossing points. At the weekend during a vehicle check at Ayios Dhometios they found the 12kg of cheese and curd products, which are prohibited. The Greek Cypriot driver was fined €150. The roosters, which...
Deal reached on opening Dherynia crossing (Updated) Cyprus

Deal reached on opening Dherynia crossing (Updated)

October 14th, 2015 By Jean Christou After months of wrangling, an agreement was reached between both sides on Wednesday that will pave the way for the opening of the checkpoint at Dherynia, the head of the technical committee for crossing points said. Both sides have been at odds over the opening. The Greek Cypriot side wanted to use the existing road...
Call for opening of Derynia check point Cyprus

Call for opening of Derynia check point

May 4th, 2015 By Constantinos Psillides NGOs on both sides of the island are banding together to demand the opening of the Derynia check point on Famagusta Avenue which leads to Famagusta, according to a press release posted on the Cypriot Puzzle webpage. The NGOs have invited all Famagustians to meet at the check point on Saturday, May 16 from...
Baghdad's decade-old curfew to end on Saturday, Iraq's PM says World

Baghdad's decade-old curfew to end on Saturday, Iraq's PM says

February 5th, 2015 By Stephen Kalin Baghdad's decade-old curfew will end on Saturday and four neighbourhoods will be "demilitarised", Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday, as he tries to normalise the capital. Some form of curfew has been in place since the US-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003, hindering commercial and...
‘You deserve much more than a divided country’ Cyprus

‘You deserve much more than a divided country’

October 9th, 2014 By Stefanos Evripidou STUDENTS of the English School deserve much more than to live in a divided country, said President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday in an address to mark the 54th anniversary of the Cyprus Republic’s independence. In the speech, made to a packed assembly hall at the historic inter-communal school, Anastasiades...
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