Audit boss calls for checks and balances on bank-loan guarantees
The Audit Office on Thursday called for stronger checks and balances for where the state will be guaranteeing bank loans of up to €2 billion,...
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Turkey, guarantees and the Last Supper
Both our government and Turkey may say differently now, but Turkey was prepared to scrap guarantees at Crans-Montana. Here’s how it happened By Makarios Drousiotis...
Government ‘vindicated’ by Turkish foreign ministry’s comments on guarantees
The denial by the Turkish foreign ministry that Ankara accepted the removal of Cyprus guarantees in Crans-Montana, as well as comments by a former UN...
Turkey denies it has accepted removal of guarantees
Turkey said on Tuesday reports in the Greek Cypriot media that Ankara accepted the removal of guarantees in Cyprus are false. The Turkish foreign ministry...
Guarantee system up for discussion, Akinci says
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said everything was on the table in the reunification talks, including guarantees and right of intervention, as the 1960’s regime...
Parliament to scrap third-country worker guarantees, change rent control law
Parliament will vote on Friday to scrap bank guarantees for foreign domestic workers and a bill to make it easier for landlords to evict delinquent...
Turkey must stop preconditions for talks, president insists
President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday representations should made to Turkey so that it stops setting conditions for participating in reunification talks, as he reiterated...
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...
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...