Cetinkaya stadium to reopen next month
The ‘Taksim’ stadium inside the Green Line in Nicosia and used by the Cetinkaya football team but under the control of the United Nations, will reopen next month, it was ...
New push to have UN Cyprus envoy appointed ‘to better prepare’
The Greek Cypriot side believes, that although the decision is up to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the appointment of a UN envoy for Cyprus would ensure better preparation for future ...
Anastasiades to meet UN official over resumption of talks
President Nicos Anastasiades is set to meet the UN’s assistant secretary-general for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas, Miroslav Jenča on Thursday.
Jenča will be in Cyprus ...
U.N. votes to ask ICJ opinion on Israel’s occupation
The United Nations’ decolonization committee adopted a draft Palestinian resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on Israel’s prolonged occupation.
The resolution approved at U....
Turkish commandos ‘lie in wait’ along buffer zone to harass farmers, MPs hear
Turkish commando forces are lying in wait to intervene along the UN buffer zone in Cyprus, Foreign Ministry Ioannis Kasoulides said on Friday.
Speaking at a house finance committee session, ...
Turkish Cypriot leadership pulls out of bicommunal education programme
Teachers and opposition in the north are in an uproar with the ‘presidency’, which cancelled the participation of Turkish Cypriots in bicommunal education programme, repots said on Friday.
Earlier in ...
Ukraine says it will press on with Black Sea grain deal
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that his country would continue exporting grain from its Black Sea ports under a UN programme despite Russia’s pullout because the shipments ...
U.N. chief delays travel to try to bring Russia back into Black Sea grain deal
The United Nations, Turkey and Ukraine pressed ahead to implement a Black Sea grain deal and agreed on a transit plan for Monday for 16 vessels to move forward, despite Russia’...
Anastasiades says ‘steps are being taken’ over issues with Unficyp
President Nicos Anastasiades hinted on Friday that steps were being taken even as high as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres over issues that arose with Unficyp in the past few weeks.
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Status quo in Cyprus affects GC rights and freedoms, UN told
Cyprus’ Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Gavriella Michaelidou said that the current status quo on the island affects the rights and freedoms of Greek Cypriots.
Speaking on Wednesday during ...
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 ...