#cyprus problem

The Cyprus problem was “all caused by Turkey” and its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, United States Senator Rick Scott said on Friday, as he paid a visit to the island ...

Having failed to reach agreement on any of the six or seven confidence-building measures discussed last July with the UN Secretary-General, President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman ...

Reunifying Cyprus would strengthen the European Union’s strategic autonomy and its ability to respond to crises in the Middle East, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday. Addressing students at ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday said that both he and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman had during their meeting earlier in the day agreed that a solution to the Cyprus ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman are scheduled to meet at the offices of the United Nations at the site of the old Nicosia airport on 3.30pm ...

Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas assured on Sunday that Cyprus will not abandon its demand that Turkey open its military archives, so that the fate of every missing person can be ...

US Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio’s visit to Athens was significant in both substance and symbolism. It was more than another high-level diplomatic visit. It ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said that though he is ready to make certain concessions in a Cyprus settlement, the return of Morphou is “non-negotiable”. Speaking at the 46th anti-occupation event organised ...

In an anarchic international system, small states bordering regional heavyweights operate on razor-thin margins of survival. Neither multilateral communiqués, commercial energy concessions, nor diplomatic choreography can overturn the distribution ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has reiterated that there is “no other option” than resolving the Cyprus problem, saying the Greek Cypriot side is ready to resume negotiations immediately ahead of his ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Friday warned against “leaking”, “distortions”, and “manipulations”, following media reports that he had accepted, and then subsequently rejected, a proposal to repopulate Varosha with ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiots on Thursday said that he is hoping for “tangible steps” to be made “in the immediate future” on the Cyprus problem, with Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou has withdrawn from the contest for the party’s 2028 presidential nomination, leaving Averof Neophytou and George Pamboridis to compete for it. Consultations had begun earlier in ...

European Commission Cyprus problem envoy Raffaele Fitto on Thursday said that the European Union attaches “particular importance” to efforts to bring about a solution to the Cyprus problem, as he ...

The leaders of the European Union’s ‘Med9’ states on Wednesday called for both a comprehensive solution to the Cyprus problem and “mutually beneficial” relations with Turkey as they met ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman will meet for the first time since last month’s turbulent United Nations general assembly week next Tuesday, with the meeting ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday said that he plans to request that a meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman be held next week, following a turbulent few weeks for ...

House President Annita Demetriou and Slovak President Peter Pellegrini on Monday discussed the Cyprus problem, among other matters, as Demetriou visited Bratislava. Demetriou said after the meeting that “I briefed ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman has described issues concerning children of mixed marriages, Maronite children and pupils at the Greek Cypriot school in Rizokarpaso as matters of human rights which ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Friday criticised the Republic’s strengthening of its military capabilities, describing it as a “great contradiction to talk about peace while at the ...

Averof Neophytou, who recently announced his candidacy for the 2028 presidential elections, assured the public on Friday that he would “never betray them”. In a message on his personal WhatsApp channel, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday insisted that the “window of opportunity” for a solution to the Cyprus problem remains open, saying he was prepared to make concessions in pursuit of ...

Political parties marked the 66th anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus on Thursday with calls for renewed efforts to end the island’s division, warning against allowing the status quo ...

Alma leader Odysseas Michaelides on Wednesday said the Greek Cypriot side should work to dissuade the wider world from the view that it is the Greek Cypriot side itself which ...