All hinges on Turkey’s stance over convergences, says government
Turkey’s reaction to the proposal by President Nicos Anastasiades to include in the terms of reference the convergences reached so far and the discussions held...
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Cavusoglu: guarantees needed now ‘more than ever’
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday said that not only were guarantees not anachronistic but ever since unilateral drilling started by the Greek Cypriots,...
Leaders to meet later in the month (Updated)
President Nicos Anastasiades has spoken with Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci by phone and they have agreed to meet on the second half of...
Cavusoglu: zero guarantees and troops is a pipe dream
Anyone who dreams of zero Turkish guarantees and troops in Cyprus need to wake up because it will never happen, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu...
Healthy dialogue can solve Cyprus problem, Turkish FM says (updated)
Only a healthy dialogue on the Cyprus problem would make settlement possible, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Thursday following a meeting with UN envoy...
Akel leader and president spar over comments by Cavusoglu
The government and opposition Akel traded barbs on Wednesday over what Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said or didn’t say in public or private, about...
‘Turkey not negative to a federal solution but also looking into other options’
Turkey is open to all alternative types of solution concerning the settlement of the Cyprus problem but does not reject the federal solution, Turkish Foreign...
President does not rule out Nato role in Cyprus solution
President Nicos Anastasiades said Monday having Nato guaranteeing the island’s reunification was not out of the question. Asked whether any thought had been put in...
How Cyprus paid the price of vague wording
By George Koumoullis ALL the leaders of the so-called centre parties – more precisely extreme right-wing parties – claim that according to the Treaty of...
Talks must restart immediately say Kyprianou and Tsipras
Negotiations on the Cyprus problem need to start immediately and they need to end positively, Akel general-secretary Andros Kyprianou and Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras...
Kotzias accuses Eide of creating opposition to Nicosia and Athens in new book (Updated)
Greek Foreign Minister, Nicos Kotzias has accused former UN Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide of creating opposition to the positions of Nicosia and Athens on...
A solution must provide security for all, says president
A state’s ability to provide security to its citizens is the element which will contribute to the smooth functioning of the state the day after...
Retired Turkish general says Akinci has no say in issue of guarantees
Retired General Ilker Basbug, former Chief of the Turkish General Staff, has said that the Treaties of Alliance and Guarantees in Cyprus concerns Turkey, Greece...
President seeks clarification over Akinci’s call for talks (Update 3)
President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday responded to Mustafa Akinci’s call to accept the Guterres framework, saying the Turkish Cypriot leader, and more importantly Turkey needed...
If the mountain will not come to Mohammad…
The UN’s man in Cyprus, Mr Espen Barth Eide, is a diplomat. Diplomats are too tactful to lie. It is said of them that they...
G/Cs don’t mind troops, guarantees as long as they are not Turkish
Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides sought to clarify on Thursday that the Greek Cypriot side only opposed maintaining Turkish troops and Turkish guarantees after a solution,...
Sour grapes and stalemate in Cyprus
In the end it was not to be. In the early hours of Friday morning the UN secretary-general, tired and bedraggled, made a short statement...
President’s proposals dismissed as ‘nothing new’
As the arrival of United Nations’ Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to Crans-Montana for day 9 of the peace talks was announced late on Wednesday, President...
Details of the framework paper issued by UN secretary-general
A number of media outlets on Wednesday carried some of the points made by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in the framework paper he gave the...
Anastasiades dissatisfied with Turkish proposal (Update 3)
President Nicos Anastasideas said on Wednesday night that a Turkish proposal on security and guarantees did not satisfy the Greek Cypriot side. Speaking during his...
