#cyprus problem

Turkey will only join talks to resolve decades of dispute over Cyprus with a proposal to establish two states on the island, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Thursday, adding ...

Regional problems and challenges require solutions coming from the region itself, Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday during a meeting in Athens with his counterparts from Mediterranean and Gulf ...

President Nicos Anastasiades was meeting on Thursday with the members of the negotiating team ahead of the informal five-party summit on the Cyprus problem, government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos said. Speaking ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday there was no other solution to the Cyprus issue but a two-state solution. He also said that whether Greece accepts it or not, ...

The place and date of an informal five-party conference on Cyprus, which the UN Secretary-General intends to convene, remain uncertain, while Nicosia fears that Ankara is playing “games” with the ...

Growing calls to change street names in Turkish Cypriot quarter of Larnaca Names are notoriously contested territories whenever politics and history enter the mix. The Cyprus problem is no exception, ...

NOT many people know that Chrysostomos is one of Mozart’s many names. His full name is Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. The current Archbishop of Cyprus is also a ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday conveyed to the British government that his side will be going into the five-way summit on Cyprus with a two-state mindset, an arrangement ...

Former foreign minister and member of the Cyprus negotiating team Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis expressed her disappointment on Thursday because she was not officially informed by the palace that she would not ...

By Apostolis Zoupaniotis, New York The United States supports a Cypriot-led comprehensive settlement to reunify the island as a bizonal, bicommunal federation (BBF), which would benefit all Cypriots as well ...

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias met in London on Tuesday and “shared perspectives on prospects for an enduring solution in Cyprus,” the British foreign ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci in two separate social media post hours apart on Sunday warned against the Turkish side attempting to pursue a two-state solution at the upcoming 5+1 ...

The pace of diplomatic activity is picking up ahead of the 5+1 informal conference on Cyprus slated for the beginning of March with the arrival this coming week of British Foreign ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday said there was no question of him consenting to a change to the terms of the mandate regarding the solution of the Cyprus problem after ...

By Alper Ali Riza Inauguration Day in the US is the living embodiment of the American constitution, which I proffered as a model for Cyprus last week. A model is ...

The Greek Cypriot leadership must come to its senses. The time for acrobatics is over In my article on Sunday, December 20, I said: “I dare to predict that in February ...

Unless the new initiative by the UN Secretary-General yields results, a “tsunami” of developments is expected in the summer that could see Varosha being lost, Disy chief Averof Neophytou has ...

The UN Secretary General`s Special Representative in Cyprus Elizabeth Spehar will hold separate meetings with President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday, ahead of a ...

A two-state solution could never be Disy’s choice, the ruling party’s leader Averof Neophytou said on Monday in an apparent criticism of his deputy leader’s comments that ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will on Monday morning meet the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cyprus, Jane Holl Lute to discuss preparations for an informal five-party meeting on the Cyprus ...

President Nicos Anastasiades, will receive the special envoy of the UN Secretary-General, Jane Holl Lute, at the Presidential Palace on Monday morning, it was announced on Friday. Lute is expected ...

In a letter to UN chief Antonio Guterres, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said he supports an informal five-party meeting to determine whether or not there is common ground between ...

This is what really matters Christos P. Panayiotides, CM Regular Columnist It is a fact that most Cypriot politicians have a legal background. Therefore, it is not surprising that they ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos did a great a service to the Greek Cypriot people by revealing last Sunday that President Anastasiades had, on more than one occasion in conversations they had, said ...