guarantees
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...
Kotzias: monitoring mechanisms should replace guarantees
President Nicos Anastasiades outlined his previous proposal on security at the opening session of the Crans-Montana conference, arguing that the island’s ills stemmed from the...
Guarantee mechanisms are less toxic than guarantor powers
By Alper Ali Riza There are procedural similarities and differences between the structure of the Brexit talks that began in Brussels last Monday and the...
Aesop’s take on the Cyprob
IF AESOP was alive in Cyprus today you can be sure that he would have enriched his repertoire of fables and written the following: “Once...