Our View: Minutes ‘discovery’ much ado about nothing
A document, published in Phileleftheros on Sunday, which contained the supposedly missing minutes of a July 4 meeting that the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy...
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UN official hopes leaders will return to talks with sense of urgency
The UN secretary general’s special representative in Cyprus and head of the UN peacekeeping force on the island, Elizabeth Spehar, expressed hope on Thursday that...
French call for more negotiations ‘bullying, excessive’ – Iran
Iran‘s foreign ministry on Friday dismissed a French call for more negotiations with Tehran over the international nuclear accord as “bullying and excessive”. There was...
North Korea rules out negotiations on nuclear weapons
North Korea on Friday ruled out negotiations with Washington as long as joint US-South Korea military exercises continue, and said that Pyongyang’s atomic weapons programme would remain as a...
Lack of clear UK stance making Brexit talks tough – French PM
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said during a visit to Berlin on Friday that Britain had still not clearly defined its positions on Brexit and...
Brexit talks start in Brussels with 20 months to go (Updated)
Britain’s Brexit minister pledged to “get down to work” as he kicked off a first full round of negotiations on Monday, but a year after Britons voted...
Britain hurtles into the Brexit unknown
By Guy Faulconbridge With her strategy unclear and her position insecure, Prime Minister Theresa May plunges this week into tortuous divorce talks with the European...
The basic rules of successful negotiations
By Christos P. Panayiotides MANY decades ago, on my appointment as a partner of the Continental European Firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co (now...
Let’s ask how many refugees really want to return
Sir, it is reported that the Mont Pelerin negotiations were stuck over how many Greek Cypriots should be restored to the occupied territory and the...
Kotzias made a mess and called it patriotism
THE MOST astonishing aspect of Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias’ behaviour is his political audacity. Instead of at least keeping quiet after the disastrous consequences...
