#United Nations (UN)

UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin has postponed meetings with the displaced municipalities of Famagusta and Morphou that were due on Saturday and will now see them on Tuesday, as preparations ...

An informal poll by the United Nations Security Council on Thursday showed former Costa Rican Vice President Rebeca Grynspan extended her lead as frontrunner in the race to become the 10...

Morocco will stay committed to the ceasefire in the occupied Western Sahara despite the end of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the territory, the Royal Palace said on Wednesday. ...

PREZNIKTWO has found a new lollipop to suck – the opening of the fenced area of Ammochostos (Varosha) under the UN, who will facilitate the return of its residents. In exchange, ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Saturday said that the candidacy of Turkish diplomat Feridun Sinirlioglu constituted a “political oxymoron and a deep institutional contradiction”. “It is, indeed, an oxymoron for ...

UN envoy for Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin is currently in Cyprus and will be meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday at 12.30pm. Holguin will also be meeting with Turkish ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis expressed hope late on Wednesday that the momentum gained for Cyprus during the term of Antonio Guterres at the helm of the United Nations would “...

UN envoy for Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin will be arriving on the island on Thursday for meetings with President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman, before holding a ...

Lasting progress can only be achieved through cooperation, dialogue and a shared commitment to the common good, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative in Cyprus and head of Unficyp, Khassim ...

Cyprus has offered its support to the United Arab Emirates’ Lana Nusseibeh’s candidacy to become the next United Nations secretary-general at the beginning of next year, with Foreign Minister ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman has said that he would have acquiesced to a tripartite meeting in New York with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and his counterpart, President Nikos ...

World leaders, diplomats and nature experts gather in Armenia this week to assess lagging efforts to halt biodiversity loss, with countries off track on most global targets and divisions over ...

Cyprus has reported 659 violations by Turkish air and naval forces made during June and July, in a letter sent to the UN secretary general, it was announced on Monday. The ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said that though he is ready to make certain concessions in a Cyprus settlement, the return of Morphou is “non-negotiable”. Speaking at the 46th anti-occupation event organised ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has reiterated that there is “no other option” than resolving the Cyprus problem, saying the Greek Cypriot side is ready to resume negotiations immediately ahead of his ...

The United Nations on Friday called US plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, “abhorrent” and said ...

US President Donald Trump’s administration imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court on Friday, hours after one of its former judges won the Nobel Peace Prize, putting Washington on ...

More than two-thirds of refugee and migrant children who reached Europe via Mediterranean and Balkan routes last year were unaccompanied, and many experienced exploitation, a report by UN agencies showed ...

President Nikos Christodoulides accused Turkey and its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of taking a “new Ottoman approach” to its regional relations and described Erdogan as the “great obstacle” to solving ...

Benon Sevan, a diplomat and former UN assistant secretary general, who dedicated his life to promoting the Armenian heritage and served as a representative of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Monday excoriated President Nikos Christodoulides’ course of action during the United Nations’ “high-level week” in New York, saying that in the circumstances, a tripartite ...

Limousines whisked world leaders away from the United Nations on Friday after a week of speeches, meetings and hallway diplomacy. While they reached no breakthroughs on the world’s most ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman has rejected a proposal by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a three-way meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides in New York, according to reports on Friday. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met representatives of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, with discussions focusing on Cyprus’ strengthened strategic role in the Eastern ...