#cyprus problem

Cyprus expects the creation of conditions that will allow the UN Secretary-General to activate discussion on “the bold” confidence-building measures (CBMs) it has submitted, but also the resumption of a ...

The foreign ministry used funds for the enlightenment of the Cyprus problem to finance a group formed to participate in a series of marathons for two years, an auditor-general’s ...

The parallels between the problems of Cyprus and Ukraine should refocus the attention of the international community to what has happened here since 1974, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said on Wednesday. ...

The resumption of the Cyprus talks will be impossible if Turkey does not cease its provocative actions, director of the President’s press office, Andreas Iosif said on Sunday. Speaking ...

Greek and Turkish Cypriots join forces to issue a settlement plan focusing on day-to-day issues for citizens A group of Greek and Turkish Cypriots have just released what they call ...

In today’s episode, Cyprus marked 48 years since the Turkish invasion yesterday with a memorial service held at the Saint Barnabas cathedral while a tribute was paid at the Tomb ...

There were two keys to unlock the five-year deadlock in the Cyprus problem, said independent presidential candidate Achilleas Demetriades – natural gas and European-Turkish relations. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had ...

The Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the United Nations, Ambassador Andreas Hadjichrysanthou has expressed disappointment over the UNSG’s recent reports on the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) ...

Nicosia is preparing a demarche to be sent both to the UN Secretary-General and the UN Security Council over the former’s reports on Cyprus, President Nicos Anastasiades said on ...

President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola on Friday reiterated the institution’s condemnation of Turkey’s continued violations of Security Council resolutions on Famagusta. She was responding to correspondence ...

Nicosia will work through diplomatic channels to attempt to ameliorate certain references in the recent reports on Cyprus issued by the UN Secretary-General. “We will issue demarches wherever necessary, so ...

A United Nations envoy to lead engagement with the parties could provide critical support, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said in his Good Offices mission to Cyprus report. “While ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s much-trumpeted proposals for cooperation may have caused a row in north, but had still not been received by the Cyprus government on Monday. The ...

President Nicos Anastasiades offered to meet with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Paris, who instead suggested that a meeting could take place in the north – to which Anastasiades replied: “no ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday he was not aware that Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar would be handing over proposals to a UN official who met separately with the ...

The build-up to the next six-monthly UN report on the Secretary-General’s Good Offices Mission and a second on the justifications for extending the Unficyp mandate from the end of ...

The “association” of petrol stations in the north has threatened to close its petrol stations after the decision by petroleum suppliers to reduce the time frame for repayment. As reported ...

Trust between the two sides in Cyprus is at a low point and without rebuilding it, it will be difficult to move forward with the political process, a UN official ...

EFFORTS to prevent a settlement of our Cyprob have entered a new sphere, which involves an old methodology – letter-writing. The two leaders have now decided the best way not to ...

Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay was in the north on Thursday to bolster Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar whose election “had shown the desire of Turkish Cypriots for a ...

Cyprus cannot fall into the trap of “revisionist rhetoric” adopted by the Turkish president to serve his own purposes, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters following a ...

The foreign ministry on Monday accused Turkey of distorting reality to create tensions in the region, after Ankara said the government’s efforts for new confidence building measures were insincere, ...

The governors of Cyprus have never promoted a comprehensive and viable plan of peaceful coexistence and mutual support of Greek and Turkish Cypriots I am convinced that in a well-structured, ...

Instead of protecting the national cheese through the PDO, the government could have destroyed Cyprus’ most important export The registering of halloumi as a PDO (protected designation of origin) was ...