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As long as the international community, including the EU turns a blind eye to Turkey’s belligerence, it rewards the aggressor, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday, warning that this ...

Famagusta Mayor Simos Ioannou is seeking urgent meetings with the ambassadors of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council after Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar announced on Friday ...

Britain on Friday rejected Russia’s call for a secret ballot in the U.N. General Assembly next week on whether to condemn Moscow’s move to annex four partially ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Friday that in the coming months they would be opening a number of ‘municipal’ and ‘government’ buildings in Varosha. Speaking ahead of celebrations ...

Immigrant flows through the buffer zone were the subject of meetings held in New York on Friday by Interior Minister Nicos Nouris, which he described as very important. The minister ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris has asked for the help of Unficyp in dealing with increased migration flows to the government-controlled areas through the UN-controlled buffer zone. Nouris, who is on ...

Turkey is preparing to take the Cyprus issue to the UN General Assembly in order to remove the obstacles to recognition of the breakaway state in the north, Turkish newspaper ...

Cyprus aims to make a “substantial contribution” towards the achievement of the 2030 UN sustainable development goals through the organisation of the 9th Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference, Agriculture Minister Costas ...

Minister of Interior Nikos Nouris is departing for the United States on Tuesday, where he will participate in a series of meetings informing UN officials and others about the challenges ...

A new formal process on the Cyprus issue can only take place on the basis of equal sovereignty, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar told UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during their ...

President Nicos Anastasiades speech at the UN General Assembly was “hostile and aggressive,” Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Saturday. Tatar, who is still in New York for further ...

United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres on Friday agreed to send a deputy to Cyprus on a fact-finding mission to help with ongoing efforts to jump-start stagnant talks for a ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday addressed the UN general assembly for the last time as his presidency wraps up, in what could be described as a bold parting shot aimed ...

President Nicos Anastasiades is to meet UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on September 23 on the sidelines of the 77th UN general assembly in New York, the presidential palace announced on Saturday. ...

The positions of Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot leadership make it difficult to try to restart Cyprus talks, Greek Cypriot negotiator Menelaos Menelou was quoted as saying on Sunday. In ...

Negotiators for the islands Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities are expected to resume with online meetings next week in ongoing efforts to kick-start talks. According to CNA, the online ...

Historical revisionism and misrepresentation of facts were what Turkey did best, Cyprus’ permanent representative at the UN Andreas Hadjichrysanthou said in a letter addressed to the UN Secretary-General, responding to ...

The so-called ‘missing minutes’ of a meeting on July 4, 2017 during Cyprus talks in Crans-Montana were published on Sunday by Phileleftheros, further muddying what happened during the failed negotiations. The talks ...

Cyprus expects the creation of conditions that will allow the UN Secretary-General to activate discussion on “the bold” confidence-building measures (CBMs) it has submitted, but also the resumption of a ...

The north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu has said that measures will be taken following the renewal of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus – stating that their approval must also ...

Turkey’s foreign ministry has characterised the decision by the UN Security Council to extend the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus as “unfair and unrealistic”. “The failure ...

The United Nations Security Council on Thursday adopted a resolution extending the mandate of the peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) by another six months up to January 31 of next year. ...

Nicosia will work through diplomatic channels to attempt to ameliorate certain references in the recent reports on Cyprus issued by the UN Secretary-General. “We will issue demarches wherever necessary, so ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday he was not aware that Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar would be handing over proposals to a UN official who met separately with the ...