Akinci: Switzerland a turning point in the negotiations
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci has said the upcoming talks in Switzerland would be a turning point in the Cyprus negotiations. The leaders are due...
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‘Time to get real on territory’ (Update)
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon may join the leaders in Switzerland during their crucial discussions on territory, the UN chief’s special adviser on Cyprus said on...
Territory to be discussed in Mont Pelerin, Switzerland
DISCUSSIONS on territorial adjustments will take place in Mont Pelerin in Switzerland, President Nicos Anastasiades announced on Wednesday after a five-hour meeting with Turkish Cypriot...
Russia says Cyprus needs no guarantees
An independent state does not need guarantees in today`s world, Russian Ambassador to Cyprus Stanislav Osadchiy said on Wednesday, adding that Cypriots themselves must solve...
EP vice president asks Commission to share estimates on cost of Cyprus solution (Updated)
Vice-president of the European Parliament Ramon Luis Valcarcel on Wednesday asked the European Commission to share its estimates on the cost of a comprehensive solution...
Bondholders want to know who will compensate them post-solution
Bondholders who lost their money in the 2013 banking crisis want to know who would be compensating them in the event the island was reunited...
Reunification talks at critical stage, Anastasiades says (update 2)
President Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday that talks to reunify the island have reached a critical stage, as he urged all the parties involved to...
French FM in Cyprus
French foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault is due to discuss the international aspects of the Cyprus problem, the issues of security and guarantees and the role...
Leaders put off issue of meeting abroad until next talks session on Wednesday
The decision on where discussions on the thorny issue of territory will take place will likely be made at the next meeting of the leaders...
Akel has always opposed post-solution guarantees, Kyprianou says
Opposition Akel leader Andros Kyprinaou said on Sunday his party believed there should be no guarantees as part of a Cyprus solution. Kyprianou was speaking...
Anastasiades: what remains to be seen is good will from the other side, mainly Turkey (Updated with more quotes)
President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday his conversation late on Saturday with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had centred on the latter’s stated intention to be...
They have no clue what they’re talking about
By Loucas Charalambous THE UNHOLY mess we witnessed in the last week regarding the issue of the settlers was one more confirmation of the incredible...
Conceding more and demanding less
By Alper Ali Riza THE rejectionists on both sides in Cyprus are sides of the same coin. They display an incurable distrust and dislike of...
Time to do some homework
By Costas Apostolides IT APPEARS the UN and the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders are planning to begin serious negotiations to resolve the most difficult...
Putting UN envoys through the wringer
By Spyros Hadjigregoriou I HAVE read with great sadness and disgust the article of Eleni Theocharous that was published in Phileleftheros on Saturday October 1...
Austria, Finland offer to host territory talks
Austria and Finland have offered to host discussions on territory between the island’s Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders, government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said on Friday....
Our View: Anastasiades should avoid giving fodder to the rejectionists
FOR YEARS Cyprus governments and politicians had been campaigning against the colonisation of the occupied north by Turkey and influx of Turkish settlers, which they...
When will Hellenism see its own blunders?
By Nicos Rolandis On November 14, 1922, a Revolutionary Court martial was set up in Athens, which sentenced to death former Prime ministers Demetrios Gounaris,...
EU fiscal rules necessary in post-solution Cyprus, Fiscal Council says
By Stelios Orphanides The reunification of Cyprus should ensure fiscal stability both at central government and constituent state level to avoid a new bailout, the...
Anastasiades meets Tsipras, as talks on territory set for November
Territory and guarantees were on the agenda in a meeting between Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Greek Premier Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday night, as the...
