Government expects UN to appoint special envoy (Updated)
The government said on Wednesday it expected the UN to appoint a special envoy on the Cyprus problem, as was agreed during the informal tripartite...
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Anastasiades: Creative meeting with Tatar, differences recorded
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is leaning towards appointing a new special envoy dealing with the Cyprus issue, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday after lunch...
President and Guterres discuss Cyprus issue in a ‘creative atmosphere’ (Updated)
President Anastasiades said on Wednesday that his meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres had taken place in a creative atmosphere. The president, in New...
President ‘not optimistic’ over talks (Updated)
By Nick Theodoulou and Evie Andreou President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday he is “not as optimistic” as he would like to be regarding the...
Reimagining a Cyprus settlement
A parallel state of the Republic in northern Cyprus is one where it is not power that is shared with the RoC, but values, laws...
Turkish side’s stand only isolating Turkish Cypriots, Anastasiades says
President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday called on the Turkish side to consider the cost on Turkish Cypriots of the isolation they are leading them to...
Tatar slams Anastasiades’ ‘anachronistic’ mentality
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday criticised President Nicos Anastasiades for having an “anachronistic and domineering mentality” over references in his Easter message to...
Our View: Strange that minutes of Crans Montana meeting suddenly in the spotlight
A week before the informal five-party conference in Geneva President Nicos Anastasiades has quite unexpectedly decided to talk about the minutes of his meeting in...
Diko leader accuses president of political fraud
People need to know President Nicos Anastasiades’ intentions on the Cyprus problem, Diko leader Nicolas Papadopoulos said on Tuesday, pointing out that just days before...
Lute meets Anastasiades at the palace (update 2)
UN envoy Jane Hall Lute met President Nicos Anastasiades at the presidential palace on Sunday morning as the informal meeting in Geneva draws closer. During...
New digital library provides complete guide to decades of Cyprus negotiations
A new digital library covering all things Cyprus negotiations-related is now available to the public in three languages, Greek, Turkish and English. The comprehensive political...
The Players: Ersin Tatar
Ersin Tatar, a staunch supporter of a two-state solution, was elected 'Prime Minister' in October 2020 ousting incumbent pro-solution Mustafa Akinci....
EU confirms will be present at Geneva talks
The EU will be present at the conference on Cyprus, convened by the UN, both in the initial phase in Geneva and in the next...
Proposal for a Covid buffer zone hospital
Open letter to Mr Josep Borrell, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy from Nicosia lawyer Achilleas Demetriades Honourable High...
Disy leader: we should not reject British plan out of hand
Disy leader Averof Neophytou on Monday had an indirect dig at those critical of a British proposal aimed at bringing the two communities closer together...
Our View: Why we should be wary of Russian interest in peace process
Nobody would have been surprised to hear government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos declare on Friday that “we cannot accept arbitration, nor asphyxiating time-frames.” We had not...
Nicosia ‘cautiously optimistic’ ahead of informal conference (Update 2)
Nicosia is cautiously optimistic ahead of an informal conference on Cyprus, government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos said, reiterating that Greek Cypriots rejected a two-state system as...
Cavusoglu says talks must be based on sovereign equality
Reunification talks based on political equality have ended and new talks should have sovereign equality between two states, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on...
Guterres open to listening to new ideas if both sides have a common vision
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday his mandate from the UN Security Council refers explicitly to a bizonal, bicommunal solution in Cyprus, but this...
Tatar reiterates two-states rhetoric in call with UNSG
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar spoke with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres by teleconference late Monday, telling him it was a reality that there were two...