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Anastasiades calls on Turkey and Turkish Cypriots to change their mentality Cyprus Talks

Anastasiades calls on Turkey and Turkish Cypriots to change their mentality

July 15th, 2018 President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday the reason for the continuation of the "unacceptable status quo" was not due only to the lack of political will from Turkey but also the Turkish Cypriot side. He called on both to change their mindset. Speaking to reporters after a church service in Nicosia to mark 44 years since the coup...
Akinci calls for a reassessment of Unficyp’s mandate (Update) Cyprus Talks

Akinci calls for a reassessment of Unficyp’s mandate (Update)

July 14th, 2018 By Evie Andreou Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci has sent a letter to the members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) calling for the reassessment of the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus’ (Unficyp). The letter, dated July 2, is a response to the letter sent by President Nicos Anastasiades to the...
FM hopes Lute visit will kick off resumed talks Cyprus Talks

FM hopes Lute visit will kick off resumed talks

July 12th, 2018 By Evie Andreou Foreign Minister, Nicos Christodoulides expressed hope on Thursday that the visit later this month by UN envoy Jane Holl Lute would yield such results so as to allow the continuation of the settlement talks from where they left off last summer. In his statements to journalists at the presidential palace after the...
'Important weeks ahead' for Cyprus problem, UN says (Update 2) Cyprus

'Important weeks ahead' for Cyprus problem, UN says (Update 2)

July 6th, 2018 Important weeks lie ahead for the Cyprus problem as the two sides on the island prepare for the arrival of a UN envoy who will determine whether there are grounds for the resumption of reunification talks, UN Secretary General Special Representative Elizabeth Spehar said on Friday. Speaking to reporters after a meeting with President...
UN to present plan for Mediterranean migrant centres for EU Europe

UN to present plan for Mediterranean migrant centres for EU

June 26th, 2018 The United Nations agencies for migration and refugees will present the European Union with a plan for "regional disembarkation platforms" around the Mediterranean where the bloc could hold migrants and decide whether to admit them. The plan appears to have fairly broad support in an EU now bitterly split over immigration policy,...
Turkey should allow Cypriot sides to reach a settlement together Cyprus Talks

Turkey should allow Cypriot sides to reach a settlement together

June 21st, 2018 By Evie Andreou Turkey must allow Cypriots to negotiate and reach a settlement for themselves so they can live in peace and security, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday. Speaking at the luncheon hosted by the Bulgarian ambassador in Nicosia, Hristo Georgiev, Anastasiades congratulated Bulgaria for a successful,...
U.S. quits U.N. human rights body, citing bias vs Israel World

U.S. quits U.N. human rights body, citing bias vs Israel

June 20th, 2018 The United States withdrew from a "hypocritical and self-serving" United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday over what it called chronic bias against Israel and a lack of reform, a move activists warned would make advancing human rights globally even more difficult. Standing with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the State...
Anastasiades says UN did not put out feelers about envoy Cyprus Talks

Anastasiades says UN did not put out feelers about envoy

June 7th, 2018 PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday that the United Nations Secretariat did not put out feelers for sending an emissary to Nicosia specifically from June 9 to 12. He was responding to earlier reports, which citing a UN source said that the international organization had sounded out the two sides in Cyprus for sending Jane...
Lute’s visit still in limbo Cyprus Talks

Lute’s visit still in limbo

June 7th, 2018 There is nothing to report on the arrival of a UN envoy to probe the possibility of the recommencement of the talks, a government source said on Thursday. The statement followed reports that the United Nations Secretariat has approached both sides in Cyprus regarding Jane Holl Lute’s visit to Nicosia between July 9 and 12, as the...
Anastasiades: failure of talks not Greek Cypriots’ fault (Update 3) Cyprus Talks

Anastasiades: failure of talks not Greek Cypriots’ fault (Update 3)

May 30th, 2018   President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday he would not let the Greek Cypriot side take the blame for the impasse in the Cyprus talks in Crans-Montana last July. Responding to ongoing criticism from main opposition Akel over his handling of the negotiations in Switzerland which failed at the last stretch, Anastasiades...
Anastasiades asks for Britain’s support for talks’ resumption Cyprus

Anastasiades asks for Britain’s support for talks’ resumption

May 17th, 2018 President Nicos Anastasiades has asked for Britain’s support for the resumption of peace talks, government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said on Thursday. Speaking to members of the press in Sofia, Bulgaria after the EU-Western Balkans Summit, Prodromou said the Cyprus issue and efforts to resume talks were the key issues discussed...
Akinci: equality, freedom and security fundamental for Turkish Cypriots Cyprus Talks

Akinci: equality, freedom and security fundamental for Turkish Cypriots

May 13th, 2018 The demand for equality, freedom and security for Turkish Cypriots under a Cyprus solution is not exaggerated, but fundamental, Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said on Sunday. Akinci said the Turkish Cypriot side wants a structure where they will feel safe, have effective participation in decisions, a rotating presidency,...
UN 'frustrated' over Turkey’s reluctance to confirm Lute envoy to Cyprus Cyprus Talks

UN 'frustrated' over Turkey’s reluctance to confirm Lute envoy to Cyprus

May 13th, 2018 Ankara’s reluctance to give the green light for the arrival of Jane Holl Lute in Cyprus, as the Secretary-General’s personal envoy to probe the potential resumption of settlement talks, is causing frustration at the United Nations, CNA has learnt. According to a well-informed source, Greece and Great Britain already gave their...
Humanitarian aid to the enclaved resumes Cyprus

Humanitarian aid to the enclaved resumes

May 3rd, 2018 The dispatch of humanitarian aid to the enclaved living in the Turkish occupied north of Cyprus resumed on Thursday morning, following a decision by north to revoke an earlier decision it had taken in October last year to impose a levy. Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou told CNA that three trucks of the United Nations...
Famagusta: mini model for a future Cyprus  Cyprus

Famagusta: mini model for a future Cyprus 

April 29th, 2018 A short afternoon walk within the walls of Famagusta offers few clues that change is in the air yet careful scrutiny of the stone and brick surrounds reveals an ongoing internationally funded facelift with the aim of preserving and restoring the inherent beauty of this medieval centrepiece of Mediterranean commerce. The town's narrow...
Cyprus protests air and sea violations to UN Cyprus

Cyprus protests air and sea violations to UN

April 25th, 2018 Cyprus’ Permanent Representative to the UN, Kornelios Korneliou, in a letter sent to the UN Secretary-General,  has protested the continuing violations of the airspace and territorial waters of the Republic by Turkey and appealed for their immediate cessation. "The Republic of Cyprus reiterates, in this respect, its call for...
Photiou discusses missing persons issue with senior UN official Cyprus

Photiou discusses missing persons issue with senior UN official

April 24th, 2018 The missing persons issue was the main point of discussion at a meeting Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou had with United Nations Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix in New York. Photiou, who is in the US representing the government at the Federation of Cypriot American Organisations meeting,...
UN, EU, Russia back Iran nuclear deal as Trump meets Macron World

UN, EU, Russia back Iran nuclear deal as Trump meets Macron

April 23rd, 2018 US allies and rivals spoke out in support of the Iran nuclear deal on Monday, bolstering French President Emmanuel Macron's pitch to U. President Donald Trump that there was no "Plan B" for keeping a lid on Tehran's atomic ambitions. Macron is on something of a rescue mission for the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),...
Back to the future of 1960 Opinion

Back to the future of 1960

April 22nd, 2018 By Alper Ali Riza In the beginning, in 1960, the treaty of establishment created a republic of two communities in Cyprus, and the treaty of guarantee was designed to ensure she did not unite with any country or disunite internally while the constitution made provision for joint sovereignty and power sharing which Cyprus undertook by...
UN will announce appointment of envoy when it’s ready Cyprus Talks

UN will announce appointment of envoy when it’s ready

April 18th, 2018 The UN has said that it was not currently in a position to talk about announcing the appointment of a personal envoy on behalf of UNSG Antonio Guterres for Cyprus. Asked to comment on press reports that Rosemary DiCarlo has the most likely chance of becoming Guterres next personal envoy, the UNSG`s spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric...
Akinci: no intention of being caught up in the same talks' merry-go-round Cyprus Talks

Akinci: no intention of being caught up in the same talks' merry-go-round

April 17th, 2018 Following Monday night’s dinner with President Nicos Anastasiades, which was aimed at seeing how Cyprus talks could be resumed, Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci had been no change in the stance of either side since the last round of negotiations failed in Crans-Montana last year. In statements after his return to the north...
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