Minister to meet local communities over barbed wire
Buffer zone community representatives are meeting Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Friday to discuss their demand for removal of barbed wire placed along the Green...
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Special police officers begin training to patrol Green Line
Over 200 special police officers recruited to monitor the Green Line started their training on Tuesday even though the initial number expected was 300. On...
Brussels awaits president’s plan for bigger EU role in Cyprus issue
President Nikos Christodoulides’ proposal for more EU involvement in the Cyprus issue has not yet been received in Brussels Director General of the DG Structural...
List of products traded across Green Line set to grow
Juice and olives may be made available for trade from the north as the government is set to expand the products on the Green Line...
Kasoulides said Nicosia did not give consent for Cetinkaya works
Nicosia never gave consent for the works carried out at Cetinkaya stadium, foreign minister, Ioannis Kasoulidis, reiterated on Thursday. Speaking on CyBC radio, Kasoulides characterised...
Cetinkaya stadium to reopen next month
The ‘Taksim’ stadium inside the Green Line in Nicosia and used by the Cetinkaya football team but under the control of the United Nations, will...
EU officials tour Green Line, shown source of migrant flow
The interior ministry on Friday sought to demonstrate to EU partners how the UN buffer zone is the source of the problem where migration flows...
Applications for 300 Green Line policing jobs falls short of target
As a November 23 deadline approaches, the number of applications for 300 jobs policing the island’s 180-km long buffer zone against irregular migration has fallen...
‘Out of options’ to stem migration flow, 17,000 arrivals so far this year
Officials on Thursday conceded they’re running out of ideas on how to stem the influx of irregular migrants, which has doubled this year compared to...
Green line barbed wire is produced in Turkey
The barbed wire along the green line to discourage irregular migrants arriving from the north was produced in Turkey, reports said on Wednesday. According to...
