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...
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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...
Guarantees are much ado about nothing
As both motherlands have already gone rogue on the treaty of guarantee the issue of guarantees is moot. It is much ado about nothing! The...
Bridging the chasm over guarantees
IT APPEARS that the biggest obstacle to finding a settlement of the Cyprus problem is the guarantees of Turkey. Mustafa Akinci and the rest of...
‘Have cake and eat it’ – is this the UK’s Brexit strategy?
Britain denied on Tuesday that a document photographed in the hands of a Conservative Party official which said the strategy for Brexit talks was to...
Nigeria would let Boko Haram pick NGO intermediary in talks to free Chibok girls
Nigeria would let Boko Haram choose a non-profit organisation as an intermediary in any talks on the release of about 200 schoolgirls kidnapped from the...
No more lost opportunities
The leaders of the island’s communities enjoy a rapport that would seem encouraging for settling decades-long differences. But new geopolitical realities could easily sideline progress....
Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the UK call for quick reunification
A joint declaration by three Cypriot overseas organisations in the UK urges the leaderships of the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot communities to work...
Turkish Cypriot side concerned over hiring of 3,000 soldiers by RoC
The Turkish Cypriot side is concerned by the Republic’s decision to recruit 3,000 professional soldiers, it was reported on Friday. An announcement of the foreign...
International community sends message of support on talks’ anniversary
By Maria Koniotou The importance of a settlement of the Cyprus problem for the island as well as the region was highlighted by the international...
Anastasiades wants to see concrete steps from Turkey
President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday expressed the hope that Turkey would demonstrate genuine political will to reach a Cyprus settlement, not using rhetoric, but through...
Spokesman: world is watching Cyprus negotiations
Government Spokesman Nicos Christodoulides on Sunday called for an end to infighting over the Cyprus talks, saying the world was ‘watching us”. Speaking to reporters...
Stop the charade
Like all others, I have been watching carefully the ongoing “negotiations” to reunite the island and all I can say: Stop the charade. Listening to...