UN backs African Union’s call for Ethiopia ceasefire
The United Nations on Monday backed an immediate end to hostilities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and a return to peace talks, calling for all sides to protect civilians and ...
South Africa elected to UN rights council, South Korea, Venezuela lose seats
The U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday elected South Africa, Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Morocco, Romania and Vietnam to the Human Rights Council for a ...
EU’s tolerance of Turkey risks war, disaster, president says
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 ...
‘If territory is lost, everything is lost’, Famagusta mayor says after new Varosha moves
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 slaps down Russia’s push for secret U.N. vote on Ukraine
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 ...
‘Official’ buildings to be opened in Varosha, Tatar says
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 ...
Nouris appeals to UN officials for help in stopping flow of migrants through buffer zone
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 ...
Nouris asks for Unficyp’s help in stemming migrant flow from north
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 preparing to take recognition of north to UN General Assembly
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 ...
European meeting to look at sustainable development
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 to raise issue of migration with UN
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 ...
Tatar says ‘no common ground, no federation, no going back’ (Updated)
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 ...
Tatar says Anastasiades’ UN address ‘hostile and aggressive’
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 ...
Guterres will send deputy to scope out prospects for talks
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 ...
Anastasiades questions credibility of UN during address to assembly
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 ...
Anastasiades to meet Guterres on September 23
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.
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Positions of Turkish side diminish prospects for new talks, GC negotiator says
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 ...
Online Cyprob meetings to resume next week
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 ...
UN representative slams Turkey’s historical revisionism
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 ...
‘Missing minutes’ of Crans-Montana meeting published
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 seeks ‘actions and proposals’ on resumption of 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 ...
North says it will ‘take measures’ in response to Unficyp mandate renewal
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 blasts UNSC decision to extend Unficyp mandate
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 ...
Security Council extends Unficyp mandate
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.
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