Posts tagged with "UNFICYP"

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...
Akinci calls for a reassessment of Unficyp’s mandate (Update) Cyprus Talks

Akinci calls for a reassessment of Unficyp’s mandate (Update)

July 14th, 2018 By Evie Andreou Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci has sent a letter to the members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) calling for the reassessment of the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus’ (Unficyp). The letter, dated July 2, is a response to the letter sent by President Nicos Anastasiades to the...
Government ‘satisfied’ with numbers moving to Karpas Cyprus

Government ‘satisfied’ with numbers moving to Karpas

May 15th, 2018 Commissioner for humanitarian affairs Photis Photiou on Tuesday expressed satisfaction over the interest of young couples in resettling in the Karpas peninsula. Photiou was briefing the House refugee committee on issues concerning the enclaved, where he outlined a number of incentives that have been given by the government to...
Foreign minister meets UN peacekeeping head Cyprus

Foreign minister meets UN peacekeeping head

May 11th, 2018 Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides reaffirmed the government’s support to the UN peacekeeping force (Unficyp) to effectively carry out its mandate during a meeting on Friday morning with United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for peacekeeping operations Bintou Keita, who is in Cyprus for a three-day visit. During their...
US diplomat pledges to support strong Unficyp presence Cyprus

US diplomat pledges to support strong Unficyp presence

May 9th, 2018 A top US diplomat pledged on Wednesday before the US Senate that he will work towards maintaining Unficyp’s peacekeeping force in Cyprus. Jonathan Cohen, the US deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs is vying for the seat of deputy representative of the US to the UN and is a nominee for the...
Humanitarian aid to enclaved resumes on Thursday Cyprus

Humanitarian aid to enclaved resumes on Thursday

May 2nd, 2018 The UN will resume the delivery of humanitarian aid to Maronites and Greek Cypriots living in the north on Thursday. It will be the first delivery in nearly seven months after the government refused to pay the ‘duty’ imposed by authorities in the north last October on all goods sent to the communities living there. Only medical...
Government welcomes UNSG’s Unficyp report Cyprus

Government welcomes UNSG’s Unficyp report

March 13th, 2018 The government on Tuesday welcomed the United Nations Secretary-General’s report on Unficyp, which will continue to focus on efforts that contribute to a solution of the island’s division. “Considering the UN efforts to rationalise peace missions, we are satisfied by the assurance we have from the organisation’s general...
Brits to leave ‘unsafe’ Ledra Palace after nearly 44 years Cyprus

Brits to leave ‘unsafe’ Ledra Palace after nearly 44 years

March 5th, 2018   The British contingent of the United Nations peacekeepers in Cyprus is being forced to move from uninhabitable living quarters at the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia’s Green Line after taking up residence there following the Turkish invasion in 1974, and are unlikely to return, the Cyprus Mail has learned. However, the UN...
UN official takes stock during Cyprus contacts Cyprus

UN official takes stock during Cyprus contacts

March 2nd, 2018 By Evie Andreou AS A result of the strategic review of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus, the organisation is convinced that Unficyp will be fully equipped and resourced to implement its mandate and will be in a better position to do it, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix said on...
Unficyp will be more effective after review, UN official says Cyprus

Unficyp will be more effective after review, UN official says

March 2nd, 2018 As a result of the strategic review of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus, the organisation is convinced that Unficyp will be fully equipped and resourced to implement its mandate and will be in a better position to do it, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix said on Friday. "We are proceeding to...
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