Posts tagged with "Maronites"

Turkish Cypriots to reveal plans for Maronite villages Cyprus

Turkish Cypriots to reveal plans for Maronite villages

July 5th, 2018 A senior Turkish Cypriot official said on Thursday that over the coming weeks details would be unveiled about plans to open up Maronite villages to their original inhabitants. “Today we exchanged views on when the steps will be taken…and by whom,” said the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Kudret Ozersay after a meeting of the...
Humanitarian aid to the enclaved resumes Cyprus

Humanitarian aid to the enclaved resumes

May 3rd, 2018 The dispatch of humanitarian aid to the enclaved living in the Turkish occupied north of Cyprus resumed on Thursday morning, following a decision by north to revoke an earlier decision it had taken in October last year to impose a levy. Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou told CNA that three trucks of the United Nations...
Akinci promises Maronites north moving ahead with return plans Cyprus

Akinci promises Maronites north moving ahead with return plans

March 9th, 2018 Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci pledged on Friday that the issue of Maronites returning to their homes in Ayia Marina village would be discussed with the ‘government’ once ‘parliament’ approves the ‘state budget’ for 2018, reports from the north said. According to the Cyprus News Agency, which quoted Turkish Cypriot...
Government pledges more support for enclaved Cyprus

Government pledges more support for enclaved

November 14th, 2017 The government pledged on Tuesday to do more to help the enclaved, following a recent decision by Turkish Cypriot authorities to start charging customs duties on goods carried to Greek Cypriots and Maronites living in the north. Speaking in parliament, Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Issues Fotis Fotiou said the government...
German MEP awarded for services to Cyprus Cyprus

German MEP awarded for services to Cyprus

October 31st, 2017 German MEP Reimer Boege was awarded the Medal for Exceptional Service by President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday for his services to Cyprus, in particular the enclaved. Boege proposed an amendment to the European Commission’s 2018 budget to increase funds allocated by the European Union to the Turkish Cypriot community to safeguard...
Wording of EP decision to channel more funds to north, angers Cypriot MEPs Cyprus

Wording of EP decision to channel more funds to north, angers Cypriot MEPs

October 26th, 2017 The European parliament decided to increase funds channelled to the Turkish Cypriot community in order to safeguard the wellbeing of Maronites wishing to resettle and that of all enclaved persons as agreed in the 3rd Vienna Agreement, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Thursday. According to CNA, the European parliament approved an...
Maronites ponder their return home Cyprus

Maronites ponder their return home

August 13th, 2017 When the first crossings opened in 2003, Antonis Emmanuel thought long and hard about the options he might now have. Despite the surge of hope that greeted the announcement, it was by no means clear where the decision to open the crossings might lead. Born in 1956 in the Maronite village of Ayia Marina, what Antonis did know was that...
Planning for Maronites’ return proceeding in north Cyprus

Planning for Maronites’ return proceeding in north

August 10th, 2017 A meeting was held at the office of Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci on Thursday to continue planning for the return of Maronites to their villages in the north. According to the statement from Akinci's office, the meeting discussed legal, financial, technical and social aspects of the return process. During the meeting,...
Cyprus issue developments the focus of National Council meeting Cyprus Talks

Cyprus issue developments the focus of National Council meeting

August 1st, 2017 The National Council, the country`s top advisory body, is meeting today at the Presidential Palace, under the chairmanship of Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades to discuss recent developments in the Cyprus issue. CNA sources say the body is set to discuss the way forward in the Cyprus process and recent developments such as the...
Government still hopeful peace process can be re-ignited Cyprus

Government still hopeful peace process can be re-ignited

July 30th, 2017 Despite a week of blunders, big and small, in the fight to handle the fallout from the failed Conference on Cyprus at Crans-Montana earlier this month, the government is gearing up for a return to the process with the framework drafted by United Nations’ Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the table, a government source has told the...
Legal steps to counter Varosha manoeuvre Cyprus Talks

Legal steps to counter Varosha manoeuvre

July 27th, 2017 Cyprus is drafting a legal document to explain that the opening up of the fenced-off area of Varosha in Famagusta is tantamount to “expanding the occupation”, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said on Thursday. Kasoulides said Nicosia would be censuring the Turkish moves with the United Nations and elsewhere after reports...
Cyprus settlement must be based on European principles (updated) Cyprus

Cyprus settlement must be based on European principles (updated)

July 27th, 2017 A settlement of the Cyprus problem must be based on European principles because they afford the best prospects for lasting peace and prosperity, Commission President Jan Claude Juncker said, as reports suggested the Turkish side could be opening the fenced-off town of Varosha, following a similar decision regarding Maronite...
Government scathing over move to open up Maronite villages Cyprus Talks

Government scathing over move to open up Maronite villages

July 27th, 2017 THE Turkish army’s decision to allow Maronites to return to their villages in the north is part of Turkey’s plan to ensure that such villages are not placed under Greek Cypriot administration after a solution and will create discord among refugees, government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said on Wednesday. The government’s...
Maronites to return to villages in the north (Updated) Cyprus

Maronites to return to villages in the north (Updated)

July 26th, 2017   Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci announced on Wednesday that a decision had been made to allow Maronites to return to all their villages in the north of the island. The decision to open the villages for settlement by its former inhabitants was taken at Akinci’s office on Wednesday morning. Akinci’s office said it...
Anastasiades meets Lebanon’s Grand Mufti, House Speaker Cyprus

Anastasiades meets Lebanon’s Grand Mufti, House Speaker

June 13th, 2017 President Nicos Anastasiades continued his visit to Lebanon on Tuesday, meeting the country’s Grand Mufti and the House Speaker. After his meeting with Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdel-Latif Derian he said that religious issues had never been a source of conflict and division in Cyprus, and underlined the island’s contribution to...
Restored Ayia Marina church handed over to Maronites Cyprus

Restored Ayia Marina church handed over to Maronites

June 1st, 2017 The restored Church of Ayia Marina, located in the north in Ayia Marina Skyllouras, in the Nicosia district, was handed over on Thursday to the Maronite Church, almost a year after the bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage started conservation works on the site. A large crowd attended the completion ceremony, and as the...
Turkish military begin to clear out of Ayia Marina Cyprus

Turkish military begin to clear out of Ayia Marina

March 24th, 2017 The Turkish military began clearing out of the once mixed village of Ayia Marina (Gurpinar) which will allow its former Maronite and Turkish Cypriot residents to move in, though no specific deadline was given, Turkish Cypriot Yeniduzen newspaper reported on Friday. Chairman of the Gurpinar (Ayia Marina) solidarity society Mehmet Hoca,...
Akinci says Maronites can return to Ayia Marina Cyprus

Akinci says Maronites can return to Ayia Marina

March 18th, 2017 The Maronites of occupied Ayia Marina will soon be free to return to their village, which is currently a military base, Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said during a visit at the village on Thursday, it emerged on Saturday. According to local daily Politis, Turkish Cypriot former village residents, who joined Akinci on the...
Maronites applying to move to their villages in the north Cyprus

Maronites applying to move to their villages in the north

January 25th, 2017 More than 100 Maronites have applied to resettle in the four villages belonging to their community in the north, Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Issues Fotis Fotiou said on Wednesday. It followed a meeting with the representative of the Maronite community in parliament and the mayors of the four Maronite villages,...
Representatives for Maronites and Latins declared Cyprus

Representatives for Maronites and Latins declared

May 22nd, 2016 The Representatives of the religious groups of Maronites Yiannakis Mousas, and Latins Antonella Mantovani were declared at the Philoxenia Conference Centre, in Nicosia on Sunday evening. During a proclamation ceremony, Returning Officer for the representatives of the religious groups of Maronites, Armenians and Latins, Constantinos...
New term at House for unopposed Mahdessian Cyprus

New term at House for unopposed Mahdessian

May 4th, 2016 Vartkes Mahdessian will be the representative of the Armenian religious group at the House of Representatives for another term as he was the only person to express interest in the post, it was announced on Wednesday. Mahdessian, is to be formally declared as the representative of the Armenian religious group on Thursday by the Chief...
Kormakitis gathering Cyprus

Kormakitis gathering

November 4th, 2013 MEMBERS OF the local community and parliament visited the Maronite Church of Ayios Georgios tou Sporou in Kormakitis in the north on Sunday to celebrate the name day of the church’s patron saint. Speaking at the service, Maronite Archbishop Josef Soueif said that Cyprus has an important role to play in the wider area due to its rich...
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