Asylum seeker stuck in the buffer zone
A renowned 46-year-old Iranian singer, songwriter and music producer has been stranded in the Ledra Palace buffer zone since Wednesday after the Greek Cypriot authorities...
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Non-stop flights from Cyprus to Argentina for Unficyp troops
Non-stop 16-hour flights will be used for the first time to rotate Argentine troops serving in Unficyp because of the coronavirus, it emerged on Wednesday....
Turkish Cypriots call Unficyp resolution ‘unfair’
The Turkish Cypriot said on Tuesday the UN security council resolution to renew Unficyp’s mandate was unfair as it allows the Greek Cypriot side to...
Unficyp raft resolution adopted by UN Security Council with minor changes (updated)
The UN Security Council unanimously renewed the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) mandate for another six months on Tuesday, without any objections and with...
UNFICYP’s mandate expected to be renewed on Tuesday
The draft resolution for the renewal of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) mandate is currently in the silent procedure at the Security Council...
Spehar briefs Security Council on Unficyp
The UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in Cyprus, Elizabeth Spehar, briefed the UN Security Council members on Monday night on the UN Peacekeeping Force in...
Our View: Everyone knows that Unficyp has an expiry date
ANOTHER anniversary of the Turkish invasion will be marked on Monday – the 46th. On 16 August, 46 years will have been completed since the...
Our View: Using the UN as a punching bag has become Cyprob tradition
Twice a year the UN Secretary-General issues a report about the UN operations in Cyprus, in which he recommends to the Security Council the extension...
Guterres’ Unficyp report: increasing number of buffer zone incidents (Updated)
The UN secretary-general has called for a six-month renewal of Unficyp’s mandate, highlighting that actions around the buffer zone have caused levels of tension not...
President meets Spehar (updated)
President Nicos Anastasiades met with UN Secretary-General special representative Elizabeth Spehar on Wednesday, ahead of the discussion on Unficyp’s mandate renewal. The meeting began at...
TCs protest to UN over trenches dug by the GCs near Limnitis
The Turkish Cypriot side has protested to the UN over the placement by the Greek Cypriot side of trenches of portable heavy weapons near the...
Cypriot and Russia FMs discuss Cyprus, Unficyp
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Cypriot counterpart Nicos Christodoulides spoke on the phone on Thursday, discussing the Cyprus issue, Unficyp and the Double Tax...
Security Council to convene on July 29 to extend Unficyp mandate
The Security Council is scheduled to convene on Wednesday July 29 concerning the extension of the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp)....
EU and UN are losing patience
The dangers of saying ‘We’re alright, thank you’ By Christos Panayiotides “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what...
UN special representative to begin separate contacts with leaders
UN special representative Elizabeth Spehar is expected to begin talks with both leaders in July, it emerged on Friday, ahead of the UN secretary general’s report...
Coronavirus: Unficyp keeing a ‘close eye’ on crossings
United Nations peacekeeping forces (Unficyp) are keeping a close eye on the opening of the crossings, its spokesman Aleem Siddique said on Sunday. “Unficyp has...
Government investigating source of bad smell wafting over Nicosia
The environment department is investigating the cause of a strong smell in Nicosia with the help of the Unficyp and the Nicosia sewage board, an...
UN official ‘mishandled’ crossing point dispute
Government takes Elizabeth Spehar to task over lack of objectivity By Kyriacos Iacovides ELIZABETH Spehar, the UN special representative, mishandled the issue of the crossing...
Our View: Cyprus problem returns to the point-scoring 1980s
THERE has been an overpowering sense of déjà vu in the last week as the Cyprus issue was somehow returned to the 1980s. It was...
Cyprus sends letter of protest to UN’s Spehar over crossings (Updated)
The government on Friday said they sent a letter of protest to the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative in Cyprus Elizabeth Spehar over the allegedly biased...
