Posts tagged with "Cyprus Problem"

Giving in to the virtue-signalling mob leads to nothing good for a free society Opinion

Giving in to the virtue-signalling mob leads to nothing good for a free society

March 17th, 20191519 It was so disgusting and disturbing to watch everyone pile on Disy municipal councillor Georgios Lakkotrypis for his post on social media where he described Paphians as the “spawn of the Turks.” Though tactless, his comment was by no means racist. Let’s get our concepts straight: offensive does not equal racist. The two may...
Time to call it like it is Opinion

Time to call it like it is

March 17th, 20191340 Your columnist Alper Ali Riza puts the case for devolution of power for a settlement of the Cyprob. I do not see how he thinks this type of settlement suits our island. It's two communities have lived apart since 1963 and I don't believe there is sufficient will or trust between them for what he is  suggesting. Since 1983 when the...
Devolution is more suitable for Cyprus than federation CM Regular Columnist

Devolution is more suitable for Cyprus than federation

March 10th, 20194513 By Alper Ali Riza The pictures of HM Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom with President Nicos Anastasiades of the Republic of Cyprus last week reminded me of a picture of Archbishop Makarios III sitting next to the Queen at the Commonwealth Conference in Jamaica in 1975. President Makarios was very proud of this picture. It...
Schinas: solution to Cyprus problem should be a European one Cyprus

Schinas: solution to Cyprus problem should be a European one

March 1st, 20191772 The solution to the Cyprus problem should be a European one, Margaritis Schinas, the Chief Spokesperson of the European Commission said on Friday. Schinas was speaking during an open discussion organised by the Representation of the European Commission in Cyprus and the Press and Information Office. The event was in the framework of...
The pivotal point Opinion

The pivotal point

February 17th, 20193029 By Christos P. Panayiotides SLOWLY, with notable difficulty, it has emerged that the pivotal point of a mutually-agreed solution of the Cyprus problem revolves around the practical implementation of the concept of “political equality” between the two communities. The position taken by the Turkish Cypriots is abundantly clear....
The elephant in the room: the hard border across Cyprus Opinion

The elephant in the room: the hard border across Cyprus

February 17th, 20197454 By Alper Ali Riza Unlike Northern Ireland there is a hard border in Cyprus complete with barbed wire, minefields and soldiers. Worse still it is perpetuated by an EU protocol that defines it as an EU external border even though it is not an international border. So the words of Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council,...
Former ambassador’s book recounts 2004 referendum period Cyprus

Former ambassador’s book recounts 2004 referendum period

January 22nd, 20192403 A book by former Swedish Ambassador to Cyprus Ingemar Lindahl titled ‘Notes from the Graveyard of Diplomats’ is being launched in Nicosia on Thursday at the Home for Cooperation in the buffer zone. Lindahl’s book is a diary of sorts he kept while serving in Cyprus and covers the period 2002 to 2004, the years leading up to and...
‘Cypriots must know EU is backing them’ Cyprus

‘Cypriots must know EU is backing them’

January 11th, 20192889 Cyprus’ division is a European issue and must be upgraded to have more importance for the rest of the EU, leader of the European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament and candidate for the Commission presidency Manfred Weber said on Friday. Weber, in Cyprus as the first stop of his campaign, met President Nicos...
Letter from Japan Opinion

Letter from Japan

December 23rd, 20183463 By Christos P. Panayiotides Distressed by Cyprus rolling down the road of partition, I decided to disappear for a short while, as far away as possible, in the hope that I would thus forget the misery of my home country. Unfortunately, my goal proved unattainable as a result of having daily at my disposal the electronic versions of...
Maronite future under threat Cyprus

Maronite future under threat

November 25th, 20184921 Although a decision has been taken to allow Maronites to return to their homes in two villages in the north, no substantial steps have been taken By Esra Aygin Despite a decision almost eighteen months ago, the return of Maronites to their villages in the north has been stuck in limbo due to a lack of political will on the part of...
Cyprus problem is ‘European problem’ says Anastasiades Cyprus

Cyprus problem is ‘European problem’ says Anastasiades

November 8th, 20183223 The Cyprus problem is in fact a European problem and healing this wound would contribute to a stronger Europe, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday. Speaking at the 25th Congress in Helsinki of the European People’s Party (EPP), of which ruling Disy is a member, Anastasiades expressed appreciation for the renewal of EPP...
The phone lines stay dead across the divide Cyprus

The phone lines stay dead across the divide

November 4th, 20185303 Fresh hopes that a 2015 agreement to connect the mobile phone services on both sides might finally be realised  By Esra Aygin You can call home and check on your family from almost any corner in the world – unless you are a Cypriot stuck on the wrong side of your own island. The Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot mobile phone...
People prefer loose to decentralised federation Opinion

People prefer loose to decentralised federation

November 4th, 20183365 By Alper Ali Riza The truth is a conversation about the nature of federal government and its suitability for a small island divided by ethnic conflict has been a long time coming. Most people have a vague idea about the nature of federal government but have not been encouraged to think of being under a federal umbrella. According...
Pavlopoulos: a solution to the Cyprus problem needs to be found soon Cyprus

Pavlopoulos: a solution to the Cyprus problem needs to be found soon

October 16th, 20181969 A solution to the Cyprus problem must be reached soon to put an end to pending issues, Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said on Tuesday. Pavlopoulos is in Nicosia to address a Conference organised by the Parliaments of Greek and Cyprus. President Nicos Anastasiades is also speaking at the Conference. Pavlopoulos , who had a...
Archbishop 'not afraid of dying', thinks Trump can help solve Cyprob Cyprus

Archbishop 'not afraid of dying', thinks Trump can help solve Cyprob

October 14th, 20184902 Archbishop Chrysostomos said he was not bothered by those who were preparing to succeed him after word got out he was recently diagnosed with cancer ,and that he was not afraid of dying. Such individuals, the Church Primate said, were “petty”. He also said that only someone like US President, Donald Trump, could help bring a...
Jeremy Hunt: Cyprus issue “not insoluble” Cyprus

Jeremy Hunt: Cyprus issue “not insoluble”

October 1st, 20184258 The UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said that the Cyprus issue is “not insoluble” and that a federal solution would be better for all Cypriots than the “unacceptable” status quo. Addressing a ‘Conservative Friends of Cyprus’ fringe event at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham on Sunday evening, Hunt said...
Spehar in New York this week to meet with UN officials Cyprus

Spehar in New York this week to meet with UN officials

October 1st, 20181984 UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in Cyprus and Deputy Special Adviser on the Cyprus issue Elizabeth Spehar will be meeting with senior UN officials in New York this week, UN peace keeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) Spokesperson Aleem Siddique has told CNA. “The Special Representative and Deputy Special Adviser will...
Imagine a political party that represents both communities Opinion

Imagine a political party that represents both communities

September 2nd, 20184168 By Yiorgos Kakouris Is it time for a pan-Cypriot, multi-communal party? And what would such a party look like? It might appear counter-intuitive to explore this idea right now when the two communities seem set on a path to partition and a future of military tension and constant enmity. Perhaps, however, this juncture is just the...
No Plan B for Cyprus, British high commissioner says Cyprus

No Plan B for Cyprus, British high commissioner says

August 17th, 20188595 There is no plan B for Cyprus, British High Commissioner Stephen Lillie said, urging Greek and Turkish Cypriots to resume reunification talks as soon as possible, as conditions were becoming more difficult with the passage of time. In an interview with the Cyprus News Agency, Lillie said "division would be plan B and there isn`t a...
Cyprus wants to see change in Turkey's stance Cyprus

Cyprus wants to see change in Turkey's stance

August 16th, 20185081 The Republic would like to see a change in Turkey’s stance as regards the Cyprus issue, so that the two communities can negotiate a solution that would end the Turkish occupation of part of the island, government spokesman, Prodromos Prodromou said on Thursday. As reports in the north said that next month all stakeholders involved...
The ruling class’ lukewarm approach to reunification Opinion

The ruling class’ lukewarm approach to reunification

August 12th, 20183324 FOR SOME time now, I have been struggling to understand why the ruling class in Cyprus on both the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot side is lukewarm to the idea of reunifying the island. Logically, there is no doubt that both communities would be much better off operating within a federated state that forms part of the European...
Letter from America Opinion

Letter from America

July 29th, 20183380 By Christos P. Panayiotides Nicos Stavrou Syrimis was born in Cyprus.  He was raised in France where his parents lived at the time but, intermittently, he also lived in Cyprus before moving on to Manchester, in the UK, for higher studies.  He lived and worked in the UK for 13 years before immigrating to California in 1984, where he...
How Cyprus paid the price of vague wording Opinion

How Cyprus paid the price of vague wording

July 29th, 20186307 By George Koumoullis ALL the leaders of the so-called centre parties – more precisely extreme right-wing parties – claim that according to the Treaty of Guarantee, Turkey, one of the guarantor powers, did not have the right of unilateral military intervention. Aritcle IV of the Treaty, states that in the event of the...
Heeding Guterres’ call for a stronger role for civil society Opinion

Heeding Guterres’ call for a stronger role for civil society

July 22nd, 20182424 By Costas Apostolides With the imminent arrival of Jane Holl Lute, the UN secretary-general’s envoy, all those active in furthering the peace settlement should get involved, including civil society. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his latest report on Cyprus to the UN Security Council last month stressed the importance of...
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