#cyprus problem

President Nikos Christodoulides has conveyed three potential dates for meetings with Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis confirmed on Saturday. The dates in question being Monday, February 16, ...

The United States’ government is “positive” towards Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman’s four stipulations which he says must be met for negotiations on the Cyprus problem to recommence in ...

There is “no clear timetable for the next steps” on the Cyprus problem after this week’s tripartite meeting ended without agreement, according to reports on Friday. The Cyprus News ...

House President Annita Demetriou on Thursday expressed disappointment over the lack of progress achieved at Wednesday’s tripartite meeting on the Cyprus problem, while the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin ...

The latest meeting of the two leaders in the presence of the UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy, Maria Angel Holguin, turned out to be more of the same. More of ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “seriously disturbed” by the lack of progress achieved on the Cyprus problem since last month’s tripartite meeting involving his envoy Maria Angela Holguin, ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin will meet with President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman in the buffer zone on Wednesday. The joint meeting is expected to ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin will meet with President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman to discuss the resumption of negotiations on Tuesday. Holguin is scheduled to ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Sunday defended the four stipulations which he says must be met for negotiations on the Cyprus problem to recommence in earnest, with United Nations ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin, President Nikos Christodoulides, and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman will hold a tripartite meeting next Wednesday, the UN’s office in Cyprus said on ...

Talk of United States President Donald Trump intervening on the Cyprus problem is nothing more than “a rumour”, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman said. “We have not received anything officially. ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Monday said he is hoping for United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin’s next visit to the island to “yield concrete results aimed at ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman’s undersecretary Mehmet Dana held meetings over the weekend with various diplomats in New York following the publishing of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ latest ...

Former first lady Androula Vassiliou said her late husband, former president George Vassiliou, lamented the fact of having not achieved the reunification of Cyprus, describing it as his greatest unfulfilled ...

Everyone speaks well of the dead, but the lavish praise heaped on George Vassiliou, since he passed away on Tuesday night, was both sincere and merited. As the third president ...

The community leader of Avlona village reported on Thursday another violation of the buffer zone by ‘Turkish farmers’, saying he has alerted both the Cyprus foreign ministry and the United ...

The foreign ministry expressed its disappointment on Wednesday over “the tendency of the UN to maintain an equal distance approach, resulting in the inaccurate and selective depiction of the realities ...

The Republic of Cyprus is part of the solution and never part of the problem, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday, adding that those who are troubled by the country’...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman reacted with bemusement on Thursday to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s speech at the opening ceremony of Cyprus’ six-month term as the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman late on Wednesday night published a photograph of his Cyprus problem negotiating team following what he described as a “preparatory meeting” with them. Alongside Erhurman ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has recommended that the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) be renewed for a further 12 months, until January 31, 2027, while expressing concern over ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday that “the time for serious business has come” on the Cyprus issue, stressing that the Greek Cypriot side is fully prepared to respond “whenever ...

United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres has said that recent informal meetings in an expanded format during 2025, along with contacts between the President Nikos Christodoulides and newly-elected Turkish Cypriot leader ...

European Parliament president Roberta Metsola on Thursday said that efforts to solve the Cyprus problem are “Europe’s responsibility”. “It is not a responsibility which falls solely on Cyprus. It ...