#Cyprus Problem

The Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the UN, Ambassador Maria Michail spoke about the importance of peacekeeping operations (PKOs) as a key tool in addressing today’s challenges to global ...

A trilateral meeting on the Cyprus issue in New York is not expected to take place before October, according to diplomatic sources on Tuesday.  The same sources said that the ...

Amid myriad tragedies that plagued Greek Cypriots after the Turkish invasion of 1974, the lies and false hopes that were meted out to the families of the Missing have left scars ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday expressed his readiness for a tripartite meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar in New York. Speaking to a pool of reporters outside Tepak university ...

House speaker Annita Demetriou said on Sunday said the state’s sole priority remains to reunite Cyprus. She added that only a solution of the Cyprus issue will ensure peace ...

Cyprus was “left completely satisfied” with the stance taken by other EU member-states at the informal meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels, said Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos. After the meeting ...

Greece’s Foreign Minister, Giorgos Gerapetritis, said on Friday that without dialogue, there can be no solution to the Cyprus issue. Commenting on his meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan ...

Cyprus has evaluated as positive the unofficial EU foreign affairs council meeting with Turkey’s participation, the government spokesman said on Friday. Speaking to CyBC, Konstantinos Letymbiotis said Nicosia was ...

Nicosia said on Thursday it is “completely satisfied” with the outcome of informal discussions in Brussels between EU foreign ministers and Turkey’s chief diplomat, as EU states reiterated the ...

Relations between the EU and Turkey, as well as the Cyprus problem, will be discussed at a working lunch on Thursday between the EU foreign ministers and their Turkish counterpart ...

The first ever meeting of the “Cyprus problem political group” saw a “fruitful exchange of views”, according to reports. The Cyprus News Agency (CNA) said that the meeting, chaired by ...

With its political and economic tools, the EU can help break the deadlock, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Sunday. He said President Nikos Christodoulides’ contacts with European and international ...

Turkish troops and guarantees must be part of a solution to the Cyprus problem, and this idea will not be abandoned, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said according to a ...

Greece’s Defence Minister Nikos Dendias said on Wednesday that the country will continue to support efforts for a viable solution to the Cyprus problem. He added that Greece will ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday expressed his readiness to return to the dialogue table immediately to continue Cyprus problems talks. In a written statement issued on the 50th anniversary of ...

This is the second part of an account of the experiences of the 19-year-old National Guardsman, Kratinos Pyliotis who served as a sergeant at an artillery unit in Athalassa, in 1974. ...

Any remaining illusions about President Nikos Christodoulides’ commitment to a settlement of the Cyprus issue were shattered last weekend when he announced to a gathering of Famagustans in Dherynia that ...

This is the story of three sisters, forced abroad by an invasion that coloured the rest of their lives and left them haunted by the memories echoing down 50 years. In ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday hit back at opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman over the latter’s statements on the Cyprus problem, insisting that diplomacy on the ...

Turkey “has problems with all its neighbours”, Cyprus’ President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. Speaking to French newspaper Le Figaro, he referenced former Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s foreign ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s refusal to attend a UN meeting would show contempt towards the international body and the Turkish Cypriot people, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar denied on Sunday receiving an invite to meet with the UN and said he would not accept even if there was. Tatar said that that ...

The government hopes that Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will accept a UN proposal to hold a tripartite meeting on August 13, spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis. President Nikos Christodoulides already accepted the ...

Answers can be found to the differences between the two sides at the negotiating table to the benefit of not only Greek and Turkish Cypriots, President Nikos Christodoulides said on ...