#United Nations (UN)

After lengthy talks that begun in 2004, 193 UN member states agreed on March 4 a legally-binding UN treaty to protect the high seas and marine biodiversity and ensure sustainable use. Welcoming this ...

Republican Turkish Party (CTP) leader Tufan Erhurman said the election of Nikos Christodoulides as president gives new hope for the resumption of the Cyprus talks. In a letter sent to ...

Newly-elected President Nikos Christodoulides will do everything possible to achieve some kind of result during his informal meeting next week with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, he said on Sunday. ...

The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights called on Afghanistan’s Taliban administration on Friday to release a university lecturer and education activist detained by security forces in the ...

Cyprus and four other countries – Barbados, Malaysia, South Korea and Malta – have been included in the UN’s honour roll after paying in full their annual contribution to the regular ...

The mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) will from this week be extended for a period of one year instead of the usual six months, the Cyprus ...

The UNSG’s Special Representative in Cyprus, Colin Stewart, has Antonio Guterres’ full support, the Antonio Guterres’ spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has said. Dujarric was asked on Friday, if as reported ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday accused social media platforms and those who advertise on them of being “complicit” in accelerating extremism like antisemitism, racism, anti-Muslim bigotry, xenophobia, homophobia and ...

Haitian police officers on Thursday blocked streets and forced their way into the country’s main airport to protest the recent killing of officers by armed gangs expanding their grip ...

The United Nations rubbished allegations of bias on Wednesday, following Turkish Cypriot reports suggesting the Unficyp head Colin Stewart said the Greek Cypriot side only complains when it needs to ...

The International Court of Justice on Friday confirmed it had officially received a request from the United Nations General Assembly to give an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides on Friday said it was unacceptable that “subjective views” had been included in two UN reports by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that went “beyond objective facts”. “We ...

Unficyp deals with an average of 10 incidents per day in and around the buffer zone, engaging with both sides to ensure there is no escalation, UN general secretary Antonio Guterres ...

Advisory opinions do not bind states but it is an exercise of soft power The UN General Assembly signalled its decision to challenge Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians the ...

The UN Secretary-General’s draft reports “show in the clearest way” where the policies of the current administration has led the Cyprus issue, independent presidential candidate Achilleas Demetriades said on ...

Parties on the domestic front have expressed their concern over the UN Secretary-General’s reports on the Cyprus problem, saying it was gravely worrying though each for a different bag ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that a surge in hard-line rhetoric on both sides has led to increased rigidity while the prospects for a mutually-agreeable settlement continue ...

Nicosia never gave consent for the works carried out at Cetinkaya stadium, foreign minister, Ioannis Kasoulidis, reiterated on Thursday. Speaking on CyBC radio, Kasoulides characterised the completion of works at ...

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 ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will convene a “no-nonsense” climate ambition summit in September next year and warned on Monday that there will be “no room for back-sliders, greenwashers, blame-shifters” ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday approved postponing – for the second time – a decision on whether the Afghan Taliban administration and the Myanmar junta can send a United Nations ...

Cyprus’ civil defence has received international certification for its provision of humanitarian assistance during natural disasters abroad. The civil defence announced that it managed to secure the INSARAG External Classification ...

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 ...

The United States on Monday called for a United Nations Security Council presidential statement to hold North Korea accountable over its missile tests after Pyongyang launched an intercontinental ballistic missile ...