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Leaders take a recess, talks to resume in Geneva November 20 Cyprus Talks

Leaders take a recess, talks to resume in Geneva November 20

November 11th, 20168044 TALKS on the issue of territory came to a dramatic close late on Friday, as the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders agreed to resume the talks in Geneva next Sunday, after a week’s break. A marathon five-hour session between President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci on Friday night produced...
Clock ticking in Mont Pelerin, leaders head into last day on Friday featured

Clock ticking in Mont Pelerin, leaders head into last day on Friday

November 10th, 20165063 It was anyone’s guess on Thursday whether the territory talks at Mont Pelerin, Switzerland, were stalling dangerously or whether the two sides could still manage a last-minute breakthrough on Friday and bridge their considerable differences. After several hours of negotiations, the leaders broke off around 9.30pm. They and their...
EC progress report calls on Turkey to implement the Ankara protocol Cyprus

EC progress report calls on Turkey to implement the Ankara protocol

November 9th, 20161971 The European Commission has called on Turkey to implement the provisions of the Ankara Protocol before any of the frozen chapters can be opened, according to the annual progress report on its accession course. The EC noted that Turkey continued to express support for the talks on the Cyprus settlement between the leaders of the two...
Leaders begin discussion on territory criteria Cyprus

Leaders begin discussion on territory criteria

November 9th, 20162173 President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci on Wednesday begin discussions on the criteria for territory during their negotiations in Mot Pelerin in Switzerland. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9am local time. According to CNA sources the two leaders will be accompanied by the two negotiators, Andreas...
Swiss talks provide ‘crash test’ for Turkish Cypriot intentions (updated) Cyprus

Swiss talks provide ‘crash test’ for Turkish Cypriot intentions (updated)

November 8th, 20163815 President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci on Tuesday began talking property in preparation for critical discussions that will be held on Wednesday on territory in a day that the UN Secretary General’s Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide described as productive. Eide posted a photo on twitter of the UN team...
Akel responds top Greek comrades who backtracked on Cyprus’ federal solution Cyprus

Akel responds top Greek comrades who backtracked on Cyprus’ federal solution

November 8th, 20162391 Akel believes the decision of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) to reject a bicommunal, bizonal federation in Cyprus is wrong, the party said in the letter they sent to their Greek comrades. The island’s communist party, made public this week the letter they sent on Saturday to the KKE following its announcement that it withdrew...
ICS Chairman: lifting Turkey's embargo on Cyprus' ships would be very positive Cyprus

ICS Chairman: lifting Turkey's embargo on Cyprus' ships would be very positive

November 8th, 20162471 Lifting Turkey's embargo on Cyprus-flagged vessels would have a very positive effect on shipping both for business but also politically, the Chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), Esben Poulsson, has said. “I believe it would have a very positive effect on shipping. Trade would increase. It is a long-standing...
Eurogroup to discuss solution cost, meeting important Georgiades says featured

Eurogroup to discuss solution cost, meeting important Georgiades says

November 6th, 20162251 The government expects the involvement of all European institutions, including the Eurogroup, in a possible solution of the Cyprus problem, said Sunday Finance Minister Harris Georgiades, noting that Monday`s briefing of the Eurogroup on the financial aspects of a possible settlement would be very important. The Eurogroup meeting is...
Restored Apostolos Andreas monastery to be delivered on Monday featured

Restored Apostolos Andreas monastery to be delivered on Monday

November 6th, 20165408 The restored monastery of Apostolos Andreas in the Karpas peninsula in the north will be delivered on Monday to the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage. The delivery of Phase A was announced by the Greek Cypriot co-chairman of the Technical Committee Takis Hadjidemetriou on his personal account on Facebook . Hadjidemetriou...
Anastasiades departs for Switzerland Cyprus

Anastasiades departs for Switzerland

November 6th, 20162117 President Nicos Anastasiades departs Sunday for Mont Pelerin, Switzerland, where he will hold direct talks with Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci focusing on the territorial issue, in the context of intensified talks to solve the Cyprus problem. Negotiations start on Monday and are expected to last until Friday. "I am going today...
Non-solution more costly than a solution Opinion

Non-solution more costly than a solution

November 6th, 20162768 THE RAID campaign unleashed by the rejectionist front against the president and the talks procedure is fascinating. Faced with the prospect of there being an agreement and settlement (personally I do not see it), the rejectionists have literally gone wild. Sadly, we have reached this new low. Instead of everyone being terrified of the...
Why most referendums are lost Opinion

Why most referendums are lost

November 6th, 20162199 By Marina Christofides The 2004 referendum in Cyprus plus more recent ones elsewhere clearly indicate that it is not logic and reasoning which achieve the ‘right’ result The majority of referendums are lost, not won, said conflict resolution and referendums specialist, Quintin Oliver, who was in Cyprus last week to attend a...
The Island of Cyprus will belong to the State of Cyprus Opinion

The Island of Cyprus will belong to the State of Cyprus

November 6th, 20165307 The complexities of the land and property aspects of the Cyprus question are difficult but the rarified atmosphere of the Swiss Alps will help disentangle them. What is required is inventiveness. The negotiators must negotiate off piste – to borrow an Alpine skiing metaphor – if they are to capture the public's imagination. I...
A federation explained CM Regular Columnist

A federation explained

November 6th, 20164703 There is a serious misunderstanding over what political equality and federation actually mean IT IS VERY clear there is much confusion regarding political equality in a federation not only among ordinary people but also among politicians. It would help to crystallise the meaning of political equality if we fully understood what...
Leaders brief the public ahead of Swiss talks featured

Leaders brief the public ahead of Swiss talks

November 4th, 20162465 President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci will be holding separate news conferences on Friday ahead of their trip to Switzerland for talks. Akinci had proposed having a joint conference but he was turned down by Anastasiades who reportedly said there was no reason for that. Anastasiades’ conference...
Teachers suspend periodic strike measures for now Cyprus

Teachers suspend periodic strike measures for now

November 3rd, 20161528 Primary education teachers’ union Poed announced on Thursday it would suspend for two weeks the strike measures it decided on last month over the employment status of temporary teachers and other problems faced in schools, due to the Cyprus settlement talks in Switzerland. The head of the union, Filios Fylaktou told the Cyprus News...
Teachers take measures for second week, may call off planned future stoppages Cyprus

Teachers take measures for second week, may call off planned future stoppages

November 2nd, 20161411 Classes at the Famagusta district primary schools began an hour later on Wednesday as teachers went on a one-hour work stoppage, while their union, Poed, announced they might call off the remaining three scheduled later in the month due to the settlement talks of the two leaders in Switzerland. The head of Poed, Phylios Fylaktou, said...
Eide: Cyprus deal has never been closer Cyprus

Eide: Cyprus deal has never been closer

November 2nd, 20163108 A deal to end the island’s partition is closer than ever and could be clinched by the end of this year, UN envoy Espen Barth Eide has said. "We are way ahead of what has ever happened before," said Eide. "No negotiations on Cyprus have come close to the level we are at now.” Eide and Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides on...
ESM can't fund solution despite its ‘huge’ economic potential (updated) Cyprus

ESM can't fund solution despite its ‘huge’ economic potential (updated)

November 1st, 20162212 The European Stability Mechanism’s (ESM) mandate would not allow for the financing of a Cyprus settlement without changing its treaty, its head said on Tuesday, but it was his belief that reunification would be good for the economy. Speaking after a meeting with the president, ESM Managing Director Klaus Regling also said it was...
Cyprus protests to the UN over violations of its airspace by Turkey Cyprus

Cyprus protests to the UN over violations of its airspace by Turkey

November 1st, 20163618 Cyprus has protested to the UN over infringements of international air traffic regulations and violations of its national airspace by Turkey, as well as the illegal use of closed ports by Turkish warships during September 2016. The Permanent Representative to the UN Nicholas Emiliou said in a letter to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki...
Anastasiades sees reunification as most important structural reform (Updated) Cyprus

Anastasiades sees reunification as most important structural reform (Updated)

November 1st, 2016425 President Nicos Anastasiades said that a probable settlement of the Cyprus Problem would be “the most important” economy-boosting structural reform in the coming decades, in addition to those proposed by the government. “However, as well as the obvious advantages for the entire people of Cyprus, a solution will transform Cyprus...
Stratfor: Cyprus is a key part of Russia's strategy for the region Cyprus

Stratfor: Cyprus is a key part of Russia's strategy for the region

November 1st, 20163404 Stratfor, a leading geopolitical intelligence platform, is reporting that Cyprus is a key part of Russia's strategy for the region in terms of politics and energy and would prefer the island remained divided. In a report following the meeting between Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in...
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