Posts tagged with "Cyprus talks"

Senior UN official to come to Cyprus for consultations - UNSG report Cyprus

Senior UN official to come to Cyprus for consultations - UNSG report

June 15th, 2018 The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes there is still a way for both sides to act responsibly in a way thatcan give the island a common future and plans to send a senior UN official to Cyprus in the next few weeks, an advance copy of his report to members of the Security Council revealed on Friday. In his report, Guterres...
Peaceniks march on Akrotiri airbase, Kyprianou slams government Cyprus

Peaceniks march on Akrotiri airbase, Kyprianou slams government

June 10th, 2018 Akel leader Andros Kyprianou on Sunday accused the Anastasiades government of being complicit in the deaths of thousands of people in the region, from Gaza to Syria, by remaining silent on the role of the British bases. Kyprianou was one of the main speakers at a protest march on Akrotiri RAF base, organised by the Cyprus Peace...
Anastasiades says UN did not put out feelers about envoy Cyprus Talks

Anastasiades says UN did not put out feelers about envoy

June 7th, 2018 PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday that the United Nations Secretariat did not put out feelers for sending an emissary to Nicosia specifically from June 9 to 12. He was responding to earlier reports, which citing a UN source said that the international organization had sounded out the two sides in Cyprus for sending Jane...
Lute’s visit still in limbo Cyprus Talks

Lute’s visit still in limbo

June 7th, 2018 There is nothing to report on the arrival of a UN envoy to probe the possibility of the recommencement of the talks, a government source said on Thursday. The statement followed reports that the United Nations Secretariat has approached both sides in Cyprus regarding Jane Holl Lute’s visit to Nicosia between July 9 and 12, as the...
UN special envoy on the cards only after a political shift seen in Cyprus Cyprus Talks

UN special envoy on the cards only after a political shift seen in Cyprus

June 4th, 2018 President of the UN Security Council Vassily Nebenzia has said a UN envoy to assess prospects for a resumption of Cyprus talks would not likely be on the cards until there was some movement on the negotiations locally, CNA reported on Monday. Nebenzia, the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, said there...
Akel: talks’ impasse serves those ‘flirting’ with non-solution Cyprus Talks

Akel: talks’ impasse serves those ‘flirting’ with non-solution

June 2nd, 2018 Akel general-secretary Andros Kyprianou said on Saturday that the perpetuation of the current Cyprus problem situation only serves those “flirting” with a non-solution. Speaking at the third annual conference ‘The Left in Cyprus’, Kyprianou said the lack of any moves on the negotiations “has serious consequences for the...
Anastasiades: failure of talks not Greek Cypriots’ fault (Update 3) Cyprus Talks

Anastasiades: failure of talks not Greek Cypriots’ fault (Update 3)

May 30th, 2018   President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday he would not let the Greek Cypriot side take the blame for the impasse in the Cyprus talks in Crans-Montana last July. Responding to ongoing criticism from main opposition Akel over his handling of the negotiations in Switzerland which failed at the last stretch, Anastasiades...
Greek Cypriot side ready to restart talks, Photiou says Cyprus

Greek Cypriot side ready to restart talks, Photiou says

May 23rd, 2018 The Greek Cypriot side is ready to restart negotiations for a solution of the Cyprus problem from the point they were stopped back in July 2017 and taking the Guterres Framework as the basis of this discussion, Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou has said. However, he said, Turkey would have to change its stance and that the...
Erdogan says lack of Cyprus progress due to Greek Cypriot 'whims' Cyprus Talks

Erdogan says lack of Cyprus progress due to Greek Cypriot 'whims'

May 22nd, 2018 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the blame for lack of progress in the settlement talks was due to the “whims” of Greek Cypriots. Speaking at an Iftar dinner at the offices of ruling party AKP for ambassadors on Monday evening in Ankara, Erdogan said that due to the whim of the Greek Cypriot side, a solution to the...
Kotzias discusses Cyprus issue in Washington Cyprus Talks

Kotzias discusses Cyprus issue in Washington

May 22nd, 2018 The Cyprus problem was among issues on the agenda of a meeting in Washington between Greek Foreign Minister Nicos Kotzias and US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Wess Mitchell. Kotzias also met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and will continue his meetings on Tuesday. On Wednesday he will travel...
Unite Cyprus marks first anniversary, call for political courage Cyprus Talks

Unite Cyprus marks first anniversary, call for political courage

May 18th, 2018 Unite Cyprus Now, a group advocating for a solution to the Cyprus problem, marked its first year anniversary on Friday. Commemorating the event, the group which calls itself a multi communal people’s movement, gathered at the Ledra/Lokmaci crossing. Unite Cyprus Now has actively called for a solution particularly during the talks...
Anastasiades asks for Britain’s support for talks’ resumption Cyprus

Anastasiades asks for Britain’s support for talks’ resumption

May 17th, 2018 President Nicos Anastasiades has asked for Britain’s support for the resumption of peace talks, government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said on Thursday. Speaking to members of the press in Sofia, Bulgaria after the EU-Western Balkans Summit, Prodromou said the Cyprus issue and efforts to resume talks were the key issues discussed...
Akinci: equality, freedom and security fundamental for Turkish Cypriots Cyprus Talks

Akinci: equality, freedom and security fundamental for Turkish Cypriots

May 13th, 2018 The demand for equality, freedom and security for Turkish Cypriots under a Cyprus solution is not exaggerated, but fundamental, Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said on Sunday. Akinci said the Turkish Cypriot side wants a structure where they will feel safe, have effective participation in decisions, a rotating presidency,...
UN 'frustrated' over Turkey’s reluctance to confirm Lute envoy to Cyprus Cyprus Talks

UN 'frustrated' over Turkey’s reluctance to confirm Lute envoy to Cyprus

May 13th, 2018 Ankara’s reluctance to give the green light for the arrival of Jane Holl Lute in Cyprus, as the Secretary-General’s personal envoy to probe the potential resumption of settlement talks, is causing frustration at the United Nations, CNA has learnt. According to a well-informed source, Greece and Great Britain already gave their...
Erdogan to discuss Cyprus with May during UK visit Cyprus

Erdogan to discuss Cyprus with May during UK visit

May 13th, 2018 Cyprus will be among the issues to be discussed between British Prime Minister Theresa May and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan when they meet in London on Tuesday, it was reported on Sunday. Reports from Ankara said Erdogan in a statement prior to departure at the airport said: "With the British Prime Minister we will discuss our...
Morphou mayor urges Anastasiades to resume talks Cyprus Talks

Morphou mayor urges Anastasiades to resume talks

May 11th, 2018 The Morphou municipal council urged President Nicos Anastasiades to recommence the settlement talks before it’s too late, mayor Victoras Hadjiavraam said on Friday Following the debacle that came after Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci’s expressed willingness to accept the ‘Guterres Framework’ enquiring if the Greek...
UN in contact with parties to seek way forward in Cyprus talks Cyprus

UN in contact with parties to seek way forward in Cyprus talks

May 8th, 2018 The United Nations have said they are in contact with the parties "to determine a way to seek the outcomes of their reflection and their views on the way forward as regard the Cyprus talks." Stephane Dujarric, the Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary Geneal António Guterres told the press on Monday that at the end of the...
Turkey hints at two-state solution again, as 'framework' debate rages on Cyprus

Turkey hints at two-state solution again, as 'framework' debate rages on

May 3rd, 2018 Turkey said Thursday a federal solution cannot be achieved in Cyprus because of the Greek Cypriot side’s mentality as the debate over the interpretation of a proposal by the Turkish Cypriot leader raged on. “A federal solution cannot be achieved with the Greek Cypriots’ mentality,” Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy...
‘Greek Cypriots dodged a bullet’ Cyprus

‘Greek Cypriots dodged a bullet’

April 24th, 2018 Greek Cypriots dodged a bullet by rejecting the Annan plan in 2004, the more hardline parties on the Cyprus issue said on Tuesday, the 14th anniversary of the simultaneous referendums on both sides in which Turkish Cypriots voted yes. Diko, whose founder Tassos Papadopoulos was president in 2004 and led the charge against accepting...
Back to the future of 1960 Opinion

Back to the future of 1960

April 22nd, 2018 By Alper Ali Riza In the beginning, in 1960, the treaty of establishment created a republic of two communities in Cyprus, and the treaty of guarantee was designed to ensure she did not unite with any country or disunite internally while the constitution made provision for joint sovereignty and power sharing which Cyprus undertook by...
UN will announce appointment of envoy when it’s ready Cyprus Talks

UN will announce appointment of envoy when it’s ready

April 18th, 2018 The UN has said that it was not currently in a position to talk about announcing the appointment of a personal envoy on behalf of UNSG Antonio Guterres for Cyprus. Asked to comment on press reports that Rosemary DiCarlo has the most likely chance of becoming Guterres next personal envoy, the UNSG`s spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric...
Our View: Monday’s dinner showed no political will for a settlement Our View

Our View: Monday’s dinner showed no political will for a settlement

April 18th, 2018 As was widely expected, Monday night’s dinner between the two leaders and the special representative of the UN did not come to anything. The well-documented gulf that separated President Anastasiades and Mustafa Akinci was confirmed before they had sat at the dinner table. According to a brief statement read by Elizabeth Spehar, they...
Akinci: no intention of being caught up in the same talks' merry-go-round Cyprus Talks

Akinci: no intention of being caught up in the same talks' merry-go-round

April 17th, 2018 Following Monday night’s dinner with President Nicos Anastasiades, which was aimed at seeing how Cyprus talks could be resumed, Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci had been no change in the stance of either side since the last round of negotiations failed in Crans-Montana last year. In statements after his return to the north...
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