Posts tagged with "crans-montana"

Russia could assume more active Cyprus role says President Cyprus

Russia could assume more active Cyprus role says President

June 8th, 2018 President Nicos Anastasiades has said he believes the Russian Federation as a permanent member of the Security Council could assume a more active role in the external dimension of a settlement of the Cyprus problem and new security arrangements which would exclude the existing anachronistic ones. Speaking during a reception at the...
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...
Akinci hints at acceptance of Guterres framework (Updated) Cyprus

Akinci hints at acceptance of Guterres framework (Updated)

April 30th, 2018 Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said on Monday that if the Greek Cypriot side was ready to accept the Guterres framework without changes, it could be announced as a strategic package agreement. In a brief tweet Akinci said “If the Greek Cypriot side is ready to accept the #Guterres framework as it is, without any alterations,...
Parties call for National Council meeting for dinner briefing Cyprus

Parties call for National Council meeting for dinner briefing

April 17th, 2018 Political parties on Tuesday called for a meeting of the National Council so they could be briefed on what transpired at the leaders’ dinner on Monday night even though they all said it appeared to go as expected. Main opposition Akel, which is pro-solution, first called for a briefing before it could assess the meeting properly....
US report on Cyprus records the two sides’ positions on talks Cyprus Talks

US report on Cyprus records the two sides’ positions on talks

April 11th, 2018 The US President’s bi-monthly report on Cyprus for the period August 1 – September 29, released on Tuesday by the Department of State, referred to the positions of the two sides over the collapse of the negotiations in Crans Montana, Switzerland, last year. In the cover letter, Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs...
‘Bold leadership steps’ needed to restore confidence in Cyprus Cyprus

‘Bold leadership steps’ needed to restore confidence in Cyprus

March 30th, 2018 UN Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman has expressed the view that it would take “some bold leadership steps” to restore confidence in Cyprus and move towards negotiations. He has also reiterated that the goal in Cyprus is to reach a bicommunal, bizonal federation of political equality and pointed out...
Mavroyiannis: Cyprus solution necessary in unstable Eastern Med Cyprus

Mavroyiannis: Cyprus solution necessary in unstable Eastern Med

March 28th, 2018 Greek Cypriot negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis has said that a solution to the Cyprus issue is of vital significance as the Eastern Mediterranean was currently plagued by instability and uncertainty. Addressing students of the Law School of the European University of Cyprus, on Tuesday night, Mavroyiannis said that given the complexity...
New Cyprus talks must offer clarity to Turkish Cypriots, official says Cyprus Talks

New Cyprus talks must offer clarity to Turkish Cypriots, official says

October 31st, 2017 Talks on the reunification of Cyprus should resume only if the “political status” of Turkish Cypriots is addressed should the new talks fail, a senior Turkish Cypriot official said. Outlining positions likely to be rejected outright by Greek Cypriots, Ozdil Nami, the chief Turkish Cypriot negotiator, said the Turkish Cypriots...
A second reading of the Crans-Montana dinner Opinion

A second reading of the Crans-Montana dinner

October 19th, 2017 I GENUINELY respect the views of Alper Ali Riza, who regularly writes in the Sunday Mail. As he rightly points out in his article on October 15, the EU thinking on Cyprus, as exemplified in the 2004 Treaty and Protocol of Accession, was based on the idea that a comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus problem, entailing a federal...
Turkey says UN report does not reflect reality Cyprus Talks

Turkey says UN report does not reflect reality

October 11th, 2017 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ report on Cyprus does not accurately reflect the facts of what happened in Crans-Montana and has therefore fallen short of Turkey’s expectations, the Turkish foreign ministry said on Wednesday. In a statement, the ministry blamed the Greek Cypriot’s side intransigence for the collapse of...
Malas: president threw talks opportunity ‘into the trash’ Cyprus Talks

Malas: president threw talks opportunity ‘into the trash’

October 11th, 2017   Akel-backed presidential candidate Stavros Malas on Wednesday accused President Nicos Anastasiades of failing to seize the opportunity for a solution in Crans-Montana, where crucial Cyprus talks collapsed in July. In an address to his campaign staff attended by media, Malas, asked what he would have done at the dinner in...
Parties lay in to Anastasiades over UNSG report Cyprus Talks

Parties lay in to Anastasiades over UNSG report

October 10th, 2017 Following the release of the UN Secretary-General’s report on Cyprus, the government on Tuesday stuck to its two-point narrative, first that it had done all it could have to salvage the peace process, and secondly that Turkish intransigence was ultimately to blame for the collapse of the talks in Switzerland. With presidential...
We’ve not been blamed for collapse of talks, says government Cyprus Talks

We’ve not been blamed for collapse of talks, says government

October 2nd, 2017   United Nations chief Antonio Guterres’ reference to the guarantee system being unsustainable in his latest report on Cyprus was particularly important, government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said on Monday, in an attempt to counter mounting criticism over Turkey walking away blameless for the failure in the Conference on...
UK’s Johnson says all not lost in peace talks Cyprus Talks

UK’s Johnson says all not lost in peace talks

October 2nd, 2017 Substantial gains from the Cyprus peace process, which culminated in failure at a Switzerland international conference last July, will be built on and taken forward, British foreign secretary Boris Johnson said on Sunday. In a speech on the United Kingdom’s post-Brexit relationship with Cyprus to the Conservative Friends of Cyprus...
UNSG: historic opportunity for solution lost (updated) Cyprus Talks

UNSG: historic opportunity for solution lost (updated)

September 30th, 2017 A historic opportunity was missed in Crans-Montana, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in his much-awaited report on his good offices mission in Cyprus, noting that a strategic agreement for a solution to the Cyprus problem had largely been agreed at Crans-Montana but a breakthrough was not possible due to mistrust...
Parties say they knew of UN paper at Crans-Montana Cyprus Talks

Parties say they knew of UN paper at Crans-Montana

September 20th, 2017   The government on Wednesday deflected questions over why the UN chief would have submitted a paper on a monitoring mechanism for implementation of a Cyprus solution if discussion on abolishing security and guarantees was already heading downhill during the Crans-Montana dinner. Asked the question in an interview with Cybc,...
President under fire over UN document Cyprus Talks

President under fire over UN document

September 19th, 2017 President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday came under heavy fire from opposition parties for not disclosing a document submitted by United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on the final night of July’s international Conference on Cyprus in Crans Montana, which outlined a proposed arrangement for the implementation of a solution to the Cyprus...
President taken to task for sending private letters on talks Cyprus Talks

President taken to task for sending private letters on talks

August 28th, 2017 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 outlining why the talks failed in Crans-Montana. The government played down the move on Monday. Politis newspaper on Sunday published a response to the president from one...
Parties pounce on president’s view of why talks failed Cyprus Talks

Parties pounce on president’s view of why talks failed

August 7th, 2017 President Nicos Anastasiades’ interview in a Sunday newspaper in which he said the two sides were close to reaching a settlement deal in Switzerland but this was scuppered by Turkey’s insistence on the permanent presence of 1,800 Turkish soldiers on the island, was criticised across the political spectrum on Monday. To Diko, his...
‘We must make every effort to resume dialogue’ Cyprus

‘We must make every effort to resume dialogue’

August 1st, 2017 While ruling Disy and main opposition Akel on Tuesday seemed to agree that the only way to prevent unilateral Turkish actions was to return to the talks the hardline parties were concerned with finding other ways to stop such moves. The Citizens Alliance suggested the Greek Cypriot side should not go back to negotiations unless they...
‘It’s not the time for disputes’, spokesman says (Update 1) Cyprus Talks

‘It’s not the time for disputes’, spokesman says (Update 1)

August 1st, 2017 Tuesday’s National Council meeting was a “long and constructive debate” on the way forward following the failure of the talks in Crans-Montana, government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said. “We have heard the statements from the heads or representatives of political parties,” he said. “The first thing I want to say is...
Government still hopeful peace process can be re-ignited Cyprus

Government still hopeful peace process can be re-ignited

July 30th, 2017 Despite a week of blunders, big and small, in the fight to handle the fallout from the failed Conference on Cyprus at Crans-Montana earlier this month, the government is gearing up for a return to the process with the framework drafted by United Nations’ Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the table, a government source has told the...
Our View: There’s no chance of a federal solution now Our View

Our View: There’s no chance of a federal solution now

July 30th, 2017 RESPONDING to the decision by the Turkish side to allow Maronites to return to their villages in the north, government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said this was part of Turkey’s plan to prevent these villages from being placed under Greek Cypriot administration after a solution. But what solution was Christodoulides actually...
If the mountain will not come to Mohammad... Cyprus

If the mountain will not come to Mohammad...

July 30th, 2017 The UN's man in Cyprus, Mr Espen Barth Eide, is a diplomat. Diplomats are too tactful to lie. It is said of them that they are so tactful they invariably remember a woman's birthday but never her age! For this reason it is inconceivable that Mr Eide remembered the limits of the Turkish position on guarantees and troop withdrawals but...
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