Posts tagged with "UNFICYP"

Anastasiades says Spehar shares view of Unficyp's importance to Cyprus (Updated) Cyprus

Anastasiades says Spehar shares view of Unficyp's importance to Cyprus (Updated)

January 11th, 2019 President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday he believes UN special representative and head of Unficyp Elizabeth Spehar shares his view that the presence of the peacekeeping force in Cyprus was one of the most important factors of stability in the island. The longer-term future of Unficyp has become uncertain due to changing views...
Spehar to meet Anastasiades on Unficyp Cyprus

Spehar to meet Anastasiades on Unficyp

January 11th, 2019 The UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in Cyprus and head of Unficyp Elizabeth Spehar will met President Nicos Anastasiades at 11am on Friday ahead of a visit to New York, where she will brief the UN Security Council on January 23. A resolution on the renewal of the Unficyp mandate Cyprus, will be tabled before the body...
UNSG's report on Unficyp to be handed over to SC Thursday or Friday Cyprus

UNSG's report on Unficyp to be handed over to SC Thursday or Friday

January 10th, 2019 The UN Secretary-General`s report on the UN peace-keeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) is expected to be handed over to the UN Security Council members on Thursday or Friday at the latest. The report will also be posted on the UN website. According to the revised provisional programme of the work of the Security Council for January,...
Unficyp chief to meet leaders before UN Security Council vote Cyprus

Unficyp chief to meet leaders before UN Security Council vote

January 8th, 2019 Head of Unficyp Elizabeth Spehar is to meet the two leaders this week before her trip to New York where she is to brief the UN Security Council on the peacekeeping force ahead of a vote for the renewal of its mandate for another six months. According to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), Spehar will meet President Nicos Anastasiades on...
Government expects Unficyp mandate to be renewed Cyprus

Government expects Unficyp mandate to be renewed

January 6th, 2019 The government expects the UN peace-keeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) mandate will be renewed later this month by the UN Security Council, Government Spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said on Sunday. It would be “an absolute paradox” if things regarding Unficyp changed while an effort for the resumption of the negotiations for a...
Russian ambassador says wrong to link Unficyp to Cyprus talks Cyprus

Russian ambassador says wrong to link Unficyp to Cyprus talks

January 6th, 2019 Linking the continuing presence of Unficyp troops on the island to the resumption of negotiations to find a solution to the Cyprus problem is unacceptable, Russian Ambassador Stanislav Osadchiy said on Sunday. In an interview with Phileleftheros, he said it is important that the UN Security Council and its members retain a central...
Spehar to hold contacts in US ahead of Unficyp consultations Cyprus Talks

Spehar to hold contacts in US ahead of Unficyp consultations

January 3rd, 2019 The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp, Elizabeth Spehar, will hold contacts in New York and Washington in mid-January, ahead of consultations at the United Nations Security Council on the renewal of Unficyp mandate. According to the...
North accuses government of creating Deneia row for propaganda Cyprus

North accuses government of creating Deneia row for propaganda

November 21st, 2018   The Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign ministry’ on Wednesday accused the Greek Cypriot side of deliberately planning provocations in the buffer zone at Deneia and using the village as a propaganda tool. It was referring to an issue that cropped up on Saturday when a group of Greek Cypriot farmers were stopped by Turkish soldiers...
New commander of Unficyp appointed Cyprus

New commander of Unficyp appointed

November 8th, 2018 Major General Cheryl Pearce of Australia has been appointed Force Commander of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp), it was announced on Thursday. She succeeds Major General Mohammad Humayun Kabir of Bangladesh, who completed his assignment on October 6. In 2016 Pearce was the Commander of the Australian Joint...
‘Government never questioned political equality of T Cypriots’ Cyprus

‘Government never questioned political equality of T Cypriots’

November 8th, 2018 The government has never questioned the notion of political equality of Turkish Cypriots, Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides, said on Thursday. Reactions to President Nicos Anastasiades’ proposal on decentralisation of powers in a future federal state were due to misinterpretation, the minister said. Christodoulides, who is...
Cyprob fatigue as leaders set to meet Cyprus Talks

Cyprob fatigue as leaders set to meet

October 21st, 2018 Apart from politicians and those journalists on the Cyprus-problem beat, does anyone care any more? Elias Hazou POLITICAL leaders may have expressed satisfaction or dissatisfaction over the UN Secretary-General’s report that prospects for reunification talks ‘remain alive’, but for many ordinary Cypriots, jaded by the endless...
Huge stash of contraband found on Pyla premises Cyprus

Huge stash of contraband found on Pyla premises

October 10th, 2018 A Greek Cypriot, 42, was remanded for two days on Wednesday as a suspect for the illegal possession of tobacco products, wild birds and medicines. According to police, between 7.30pm and 9.30pm on Tuesday a task force, in the presence of Unficyp personnel conducted a search under a warrant in a property located in the buffer-zone...
Turkish Cypriot side ask for Unficyp camp to be removed Cyprus

Turkish Cypriot side ask for Unficyp camp to be removed

October 4th, 2018 Authorities in the north have requested the removal of an Unficyp camp located near a university in Famagusta in the north so that they can turn it into a park for residents in the area, it was reported on Thursday. According to Turkish Cypriot media, ‘foreign minister’, Kudret Ozersay, announced that during their recent visit to...
Fears that Anastasiades will lay down conditions for new talks   Cyprus Talks

Fears that Anastasiades will lay down conditions for new talks  

September 23rd, 2018 Opposition Akel on Sunday questioned President Nicos Anastasiades’ commitment to a resumption of talks suggesting he would lay down conditions that would stop UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres from recommending a new round of negotiations. The comments came shortly after Anastasiades landed in New York for the UN General...
The only remaining option CM Regular Columnist

The only remaining option

August 26th, 2018 By Christos P. Panayiotides LATELY, the Greek Cypriot negotiator, Andreas Mavroyiannis, has been confirming, in an explicit and unambiguous fashion my assessment that the Cyprus problem is fast approaching the end of an era and that these developments entail grave risks while rendering the maintenance of the status quo an unfeasible...
Guterres will decide on next Cyprus steps after seeing Lute (Updated) Cyprus Talks

Guterres will decide on next Cyprus steps after seeing Lute (Updated)

July 27th, 2018 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will decide on his next steps on the Cyprus issue after he speaks to his special envoy Jane Holl Lute in New York, UN Secretary-General spokesman Stephane Dujarric has said. Referring to the renewal on Thursday of Unficyp's mandate until January 31, 2019, Dujarric added: “We obviously welcome...
Unficyp to stay another six months but it could be the last chance Cyprus Talks

Unficyp to stay another six months but it could be the last chance

July 26th, 2018 By Elias Hazou As the UN Security Council on Thursday renewed Unficyp’s mandate on Cyprus, the chief Greek Cypriot negotiator was cautioning that the current track to kickstart new peace talks may well be the last-chance saloon to solve the Cyprus problem as we know it. The six-month renewal of the peacekeeping force in Cyprus,...
UN Security Council still undecided over Unficyp mandate   Cyprus

UN Security Council still undecided over Unficyp mandate  

July 25th, 2018 The UN Security Council had not reached a conclusion on the final draft of the Unficyp’s mandate by Wednesday evening, potentially delaying the vote. Security Council members had not reached a final decision over the final draft to extend the UN peacekeeping force’s mandate which was set to go to vote. According to the Cyprus...
Akinci’s call for Unficyp review: a legal answer CM Regular Columnist

Akinci’s call for Unficyp review: a legal answer

July 24th, 2018 In a letter sent to members of the UN Security Council, the Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci has called for the reassessment of the mandate of the peacekeeping force Unficyp. In the letter, dated July 2, Akinci puts forward several arguments of a legal and political nature to support his demand. My comments concern two legal...
Consultations between Britain and US on draft Unficyp resolution Cyprus Talks

Consultations between Britain and US on draft Unficyp resolution

July 18th, 2018 Britain and the US appear to be consulting over the content of a draft resolution for the renewal of Unficyp’s, the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus, mandate, since it has not yet been submitted to the other Security Council permanent members, according to a diplomatic source. The US has put forward a series of criteria concerning...
Security Council expresses support for Unficyp’s role Cyprus

Security Council expresses support for Unficyp’s role

July 18th, 2018 Members of the UN Security Council have expressed support for the role of Unficyp and the renewal of its mandate for a further six months during Tuesday’s deliberations at the Security Council, which was briefed by the SG’s Special Representative in Cyprus Elizabeth Spehar. Diplomatic sources told CNA that the members expressed...
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