Political equality ‘must finally be dealt with’
Acknowledged by the UN in 1991, political equality remains a stumbling block With the informal five-party summit on Cyprus under UN auspices fast approaching next...
Political equality
Political equality in practice
Nobody is in favour of a formal partition of Cyprus but the risks are real By Christos P Panayiotides Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ brief...
Decades spent looking in the wrong place
The solution to the Cyprus problem was always there, ‘outside the box’ By Christos Panayiotides Three to four thousand Turkish Cypriots demonstrated last Tuesday...
Political equality in a federal state
By Christos Panayiotides The recent meeting in Berlin has clearly framed the future government structure of Cyprus by prescribing a bizonal, bicommunal federation and by...
Turkish FM launches attack over gas and political equality
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stoked tensions on Monday by warning Greek Cypriots to accept a joint gas committee, insisting there would be no talks...
President ready to talk without preconditions, says spokesman
President Nicos Anastasiades is ready to talk with Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci without setting any preconditions, government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said on Wednesday. Speaking...
Akinci lashes out at ‘aggressive’ Anastasiades
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci on Wednesday accused President Nicos Anastasiades of making aggressive and confrontational statements during a “delicate period” in the Cyprus...
Rhetoric between the leaders worsens
The rhetoric between the two Cypriot leaders worsened on Tuesday, two days after the visit of UN envoy Jane Holl Lute who was unable to...
Lute leaves empty-handed after talks proposal rejected
The two sides in Cyprus appeared to be further apart than ever on Monday a day after the visit by UN envoy Jane Holl...
Akinci seeking clarifications on issue of political equality
As President Nicos Anastasiades was meeting Sunday morning with UN envoy Jane Holl Lute, Mustafa Akinci was quoted as saying the Turkish Cypriot side, would...
Akinci’s idea of ‘political equality’ equates to ‘political inequality’
The principle of decentralisation speaks for itself and from then on it is a matter of dialogue to agree together what powers should be allocated...
The cost of deriding political equality
By George Koumoullis Hearing our politicians discuss the Cyprus problem, you come to the conclusion that many of them are either ignorant of the precise...
Current solution model not functional, Anastasiades says (updated)
President Nicos Anastasiades suggested Thursday Greek Cypriots would be at a disadvantage if the island was reunited under the current provisions of a federal model,...
Divisions highlighted ahead of UDI anniversary in north
While Greek Cypriot political parties on Wednesday condemned the 35th anniversary of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI), which will be marked in the north...
Talks futile in present climate says Ozersay
The island’s divided communities have a different perception of the current parameters of reunification, and as long as this continues resuming negotiations will lead nowhere,...
Rejecting political equality means permanent deadlock
By George Koumoullis THE view of the blusterous President Erdogan that a significant obstacle to a Cyprus settlement was the Greek Cypriots’ insistence that...
Turkey reiterates demands on Cyprus in Washington Times
Under the title ‘Turkey’s vision for Cyprus’, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, in an op-ed published in the Washington Times on Sunday said a Cyprus...
The UN on political quality
There are various definitions of political equality, but with respect to a Cyprus settlement the United Nations Security Council has defined the meaning in...
A federation explained
There is a serious misunderstanding over what political equality and federation actually mean IT IS VERY clear there is much confusion regarding political equality in...
Dissecting the rejectionists
By George Koumoullis THE constantly derided efforts to find a solution to the Cyprus problem puts the anatomy of the rejectionists under the microscope. The...