#Cyprus talks

Main opposition party Akel on Tuesday expressed concern at the continuing impasse in the Cyprus peace process, while thanking China for its support within the UN Security Council. The Akel ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has been briefed by his Greek counterpart Kyriacos Mitsotakis about the latter’s weekend meeting with the Turkish president, Nicosia said on Monday, as a former Turkish ...

The north’s sovereignty must be accepted in order for formal negotiations to begin, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar reiterated on Monday, adding that a federal solution uniting the two ...

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 meeting in New York on ...

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 with Guterres and Turkish Cypriot ...

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 York for the UN’s ...

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 upcoming informal meeting on the ...

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 and system of governance Searching ...

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 by insisting on a two-state ...

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 his Turkish Cypriot “compatriots”. Tatar, ...

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 Crans-Montana with Turkey’s Foreign ...

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 the five-party summit in Geneva ...

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 the meeting, held as part ...

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 guide has been developed and ...

Ersin Tatar, a staunch supporter of a two-state solution, was elected 'Prime Minister'  in October 2020 ousting incumbent pro-solution Mustafa Akinci.

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 phase of in-depth negotiations, a ...

Open letter to Mr Josep Borrell, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy from Nicosia lawyer Achilleas Demetriades Honourable High Representative of the European Union, Your ...

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 ahead of the informal five-party ...

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 heard this slogan for a ...

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 a solution, which is favoured ...

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 Tuesday. “This is our idea… ...

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 was not an impediment to ...

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 equal and separate sides on ...

The informal 5+1 meeting is an ambitious goal, however we should not miss the window of opportunity presented to us, outgoing permanent representative of Cyprus to the UN and interlocutor of ...