Posts tagged with "Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias"

Kotzias resigns over Macedonia name row (Updated) Greece

Kotzias resigns over Macedonia name row (Updated)

October 17th, 2018 Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accepted the resignation of his foreign minister on Wednesday, Greece's first major political casualty in a crusade to end a decades-old name dispute with Macedonia. Tsipras has said he will do whatever is required to ensure an agreement reached in June to rename the neighbouring country 'Republic of...
‘Substantial and effective work needed before new Cyprus talks’ Cyprus

‘Substantial and effective work needed before new Cyprus talks’

September 11th, 2018 Substantial and effective work should be done prior to heading to a new round of Cyprus talks, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said on Tuesday after meeting the UN Secretary General’s representative Jane Holl Lute. “We need to see if there is a real will, a capacity and capability for substantive and productive solutions to...
Athens wants guarantees deal with Ankara before new Cyprus talks Cyprus Talks

Athens wants guarantees deal with Ankara before new Cyprus talks

July 3rd, 2018 Athens wants a treaty to be in place with Ankara on security and guarantees before another international conference on Cyprus is held, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said on Tuesday. Speaking to Greek radio station To Kokkino, he said the Greek government had wanted such an agreement between the two guarantor countries prior to...
Judgement reserved in Kykkos monastery land dispute with Greece Cyprus

Judgement reserved in Kykkos monastery land dispute with Greece

June 12th, 2018 Nicosia district court reserved judgement on Tuesday over the controversial legal battle between Kykkos monastery and the government of Greece over an area of land. The case, which in its previous court session saw Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias take the witness stand, relates to a dispute over 8,000 square metres of land the...
‘Lying’ Eide under concerted fire Cyprus

‘Lying’ Eide under concerted fire

July 23rd, 2017 UN Special Advisor Espen Barth Eide will be back on Monday for meetings with President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci to establish whether they remained committed to a solution based on a bizonal, bicommunal federation (BBF). An interview given by Eide to the Cyprus News Agency, was not well received by...
Talks halted by Greek minister’s attitude Cyprus

Talks halted by Greek minister’s attitude

January 15th, 2017 The Conference on Cyprus ended the day it started – at least in terms of level of representation – due to the actions and words of Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, the Cyprus Mail has learned. According to information corroborated by various sources, Kotzias “insulted”, “lectured” and “annoyed” a number of...
Problems created for Athens and Nicosia Cyprus

Problems created for Athens and Nicosia

January 15th, 2017 Greek Foreign Minister Nicos Kotzias appears to have created problems for Nicosia and Athens with his actions during the Geneva conference, which were seen as delaying tactics. Athens issued a non-paper on Friday evening, which some observers viewed as a sign of sidelining the Greek foreign minister. It came after several phone...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Sleep-deprived, stroppy Nik was last thing UN wanted Opinion

Tales from the Coffeeshop: Sleep-deprived, stroppy Nik was last thing UN wanted

January 15th, 2017 IN THE END it was just as well the Cyprus Republic was not invited to Geneva because it was not needed. It saved the taxpayer an extra hotel bill and air fare and its absence gave the majority of the rejectionists a patriotic excuse not to attend the opening ceremony of the conference, which was just as well because they may have acted...
Eide: convergences ‘far beyond’ what’s gone before Cyprus

Eide: convergences ‘far beyond’ what’s gone before

September 13th, 2016 Espen Barth Eide, the UN secretary-general's special advisor on Cyprus, said on Monday the convergences between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders in the talks were far beyond what had ever been agreed before in direct conversations between the two sides. But he warned there was still a lot of work to do and a ‘done deal’ was...
Eide to meet Kotzias in Athens on Tuesday Cyprus

Eide to meet Kotzias in Athens on Tuesday

January 5th, 2016 Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will hold a meeting in Athens on Tuesday with the UN Secretary General’s Special Adviser on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide. The meeting will be held at 3 pm. The Cyprus News Agency (CNA) has been told by a high-ranked official in the foreign ministry, that the meeting, the first for 2016 was taking...
Greek FM on three-day visit Cyprus

Greek FM on three-day visit

October 26th, 2015 The Cyprus problem was high on the agenda as Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias met with his Cypriot counterpart Ioannis Kasoulides on Monday. Currently on a three-day visit to Cyprus, Kotzias discussed a unified Cyprus through bizonal and bicommunal federation but “in order to achieve this, the occupying forces must be...
Anastasiades urges detractors to reflect on consequences of non-solution Cyprus

Anastasiades urges detractors to reflect on consequences of non-solution

October 25th, 2015 Those who are opposed to the course of the current Cyprus negotiations despite a common goal set out at the National Council in September 2009, need to reflect on 'what next?" President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday. Speaking at an EOKA memorial event in Chlorakas in Paphos, Anastasiades said: "What will be the consequences of...
Anastasiades urges detractors to reflect on consequences of non-solution Cyprus

Anastasiades urges detractors to reflect on consequences of non-solution

October 25th, 2015 Those who are opposed to the course of the current Cyprus negotiations despite a common goal set out at the National Council in September 2009, need to reflect on 'what next?" President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday. Speaking at an EOKA memorial event in Chlorakas in Paphos, Anastasiades said: "What will be the consequences of...
Greek foreign minister repeats criticism of EU over Ukraine World

Greek foreign minister repeats criticism of EU over Ukraine

January 29th, 2015 Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias stoked a brewing row with European partners over sanctions against Russia on Thursday, saying Athens would not be pushed into agreement because of its impending debt negotiations. Just days after taking office, the leftwing government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has been embroiled in a dispute...
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