Unknown yet when Holguín will be in Cyprus
No dates have been set yet for a visit by the UN chief’s personal envoy María Ángela Holguín to Cyprus, UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said late ...
UNSG Cyprus envoy begins work
The UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy on Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin’s mission officially begins on Monday, May 12 and she is expected on the island later this month.
President Nikos ...
Holguin: the personal envoy with a mountain to climb
Poor Maria Angela Holguin has once again been dragged into the political minefield that is Cyprus, reappointed as the UN secretary-general’s (UNSG) personal envoy. There was hesitation in announcing ...
Christodoulides to meet Holguin before month’s end
President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday that he is to meet United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin before the end of May.
In statements to journalists, he said Holguin’s ...
Christodoulides, Tatar looking forward to Holguín’s arrival
The leaders in Cyprus are looking forward to receiving the UN chief’s personal envoy Maria Ángela Holguín in the coming weeks, deputy spokesman for the secretary-general, Farhan Haq, ...
Envoy appointment ‘expected after Easter’
Developments relating to the appointment of a new personal envoy to Cyprus by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres are to be expected after Easter, according to reports on Friday.
“The ...
Ertugruloglu: Holguin knows nothing about the Cyprus problem
United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin “knows nothing about the Cyprus problem”, the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu said on Friday.
Speaking to Ada TV, he said Holguin “is ...
Our View: Is the president’s Cyprob optimism wishful thinking or diversion?
President Christodoulides, for the last couple of weeks, has been forecasting “some development in the Cyprus issue,” which could materialise in August or early September. He repeated this prediction again ...
Our View: We should heed Holguin’s words and look to the future
Now that we have marked the 50th anniversaries of the coup and Turkish invasion, we should heed the advice of the UNSG’s envoy Maria Angela Holguin, who said in ...
Turkish Invasion: 50 years
Did we really need to have so many episodes of violence?
I am with Maria Angela Holguin, personal envoy of the UN secretary-general all the way with her almost poetic open letter to the people of Cyprus about the 60+ year old “...
Holguin’s mission impossible proved just that
Reading between the lines of UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin’s appeal to Cypriots to get involvedover the heads of their leaders, was an admission that common ground eluded her ...
Stewart to brief Security Council over Cyprus
United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) chief Colin Stewart is to brief the UN Security Council on the latest state of the Cyprus problem on Thursday.
Stewart will address ...
Holguin gives Guterres her report on Cyprus problem and prospects to start talks
UN Secretary-General personal envoy on Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin handed over her report on six months of trying to find mutual ground in Cyprus to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday.
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Holguin to submit Cyprus report to Guterres
United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin is on Wednesday expected to submit her report on Cyprus to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, as her tenure as envoy comes to an end.
Her ...
Holguin to deliver latest report on Cyprus to Guterres
On July 11, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Cyprus and Head of UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) Colin Stewart will inform the Security Council during a closed meeting ...
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Mixed response to Holguin’s open letter
Mixed reactions followed the open letter published over the weekend by Maria Angela Holguin, the UN secretary-general’s personal Cyprus envoy – some dismissed it as generic and tone-deaf to the ...
Nicosia finds Holguin’s open letter on Cyprus encouraging
An open letter by UN Secretary General personal envoy for Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin was seen as an encouraging message by Nicosia on Sunday, according to government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis.
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Holguin’s mission will be ‘left to peter out’
The UN secretary-general’s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin is very unlikely to return to Cyprus, a source close to the process has said, suggesting that her mission is all ...
Holguin says ‘we must think differently’ in parting letter
United Nations envoy in Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin said “we must think differently” to find a solution to the Cyprus problem in an open letter penned on Sunday ahead of ...
Tatar calls for ‘objective’ UN report
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has called on the UN to present an unbiased and fair report on Cyprus, noting that direct recognition of the north was not a prerequisite, ...
Letymbiotis responds vaguely to UN warning
Repeating the government’s official tirade on Turkish intransigence and praising its own dedication to resuming negotiations on the Cyprus problem, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis gave a lukewarm response to ...
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Very concerned about increased militarisation of buffer zone – Unficyp chief
Unficyp chief and the UN Special Representative on Cyprus Colin Stewart said on Monday that he is concerned over increased militarisation of the buffer zone, seemingly caused by the stalled ...
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Tatar reiterates position ahead of Holguin meeting
As long as the Turkish Cypriots are not considered equal and a solution based on equality is not accepted, there will be no common ground for negotiations in Cyprus, Turkish ...
Tatar to discuss opening Mia Milia checkpoint with Holguin
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will discuss opening a new checkpoint a Mia Milia during his meeting with UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin slated for July 1, it emerged on Friday.
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