#Cyprus talks

The days to come in Geneva will have a lot of suspense and drama By Christos P Panayiotides I often get the impression that those involved in the process of ...

Analysts say there is very little interest in the upcoming talks and the major players are just going through the motions By Elias Hazou The – for all intents and purposes – ...

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 ...

President Nicos Anastasiades exchanged views with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on the upcoming 5+1 informal meeting on Cyprus in Geneva during a phone conversation on Monday. Government Spokesman Kyriakos Koushos ...

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 ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has told the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres he is ready and determined to engage with true political will in the talks during an informal meeting on ...

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 ...

While UN secretary general Antonio Guterres intends to invite all sides to a five-plus-one conference to explore if common ground exists to negotiate a solution to the Cyprus problem, in ...