#United Nations (UN)

The United Nations Human Rights Committee on Friday expressed concern over Iran’s treatment of women and girls and called for the disbandment of the Islamic Republic’s morality police. ...

The new UN envoy to Cyprus should be seen as the last chance to solve the Cyprus problem, as the island’s division is becoming more entrenched with time, UN ...

A “high-ranking” UN official is expected to arrive in Cyprus in early November, towards the end of the coming week, according to local media. The comments carried by the Cyprus ...

The Pyla agreement reached between the two sides is an incredibly positive win-win development which can serve as the model for negotiations going forward, UN special representative Colin Stewart told ...

The United Nations’ “primary objective [in Cyprus] is to support the efforts directed by the leaders to secure a permanent settlement,” according to its special representative on the island Colin ...

Niger’s junta has demanded that the top United Nations official there leave the country within 72 hours over accusations that Niger was excluded from the annual UN gathering of world ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday that the Republic of Cyprus has given the UN the all-clear to appoint UN adviser to evaluate the prospects of restarting talks on the ...

Azerbaijan has invited a United Nations mission to visit Nagorno-Karabakh “in the coming days”, the foreign ministry said on Friday, amid a mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from the region ...

Perhaps we should expect less from the UN instead By Tamsin Phillipa Paige Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has lambasted the UN Security Council yet again, saying in a speech this ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres received two refusals from the Turkish Cypriot side and one ‘yes’ and one ‘no’ from Turkey to two proposals related to a joint meeting with the ...

After a week of wall-to-wall Cyprob contacts on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, President Nikos Christodoulides is coming home with another pocket full of wishes ...

Greece and Cyprus are in absolute coordination, President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stated, after their meeting on Wednesday and in the wake of the latter’s ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will give clear answers on Wednesday to the positions which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed in his speech before the UN General Assembly overnight in New ...

President Nikos Christodoulides departed from Athens on Saturday to travel to New York where the 78th United Nations general assembly is to be held next week. The president is scheduled ...

An evaluation of the latest problems to have arisen in the buffer zone The attack by Turkish Cypriots against members of Unficyp in the buffer zone last month highlights their ...

The world is not on target to curb global warming and more action is needed on all fronts, the United Nations warned on Friday, in the run-up to crucial international ...

Unficyp has allowed plenty of Greek Cypriot building in buffer zone, Turkish Cypriots argue By Fahri Zihni Following the Pile (Pyla)-United Nations incident on August 18, when the building of ...

The assistant UN Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and Americas, Miroslav Jenca is set to arrive in Ankara on Wednesday for meetings with Turkish contacts. During a UN press briefing, ...

What happened in Chlorakas on Sunday and Monday were the worst cases of racist violence seen in Cyprus. The country may be facing a migration problem, a part of the ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Tuesday he will inform his EU counterparts on the situation in the buffer zone near Pyla, where scuffles broke out between UN peacekeepers in ...

The government, understandably, is pleased with the reaction to the Turkish attempts to carry out construction work in the buffer zone. Not only did Unficyp soldiers become involved in a ...

The government is “closely monitoring” the situation in Pyla, according to its spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis. He added that President Nikos Christodoulides and the Cypriot foreign minister were “constantly making diplomatic ...

Greek-American Congressman John Sarbanes said on Sunday he believed Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was responsible for the attack against UN peacekeepers in Pyla. The congressman has asked US President Joe ...

The situation at the buffer zone in Pyla remains calm, Unficyp spokesman Aleem Siddique said on Sunday morning, two days after a violent altercation against UN peacekeeping forces. “Everything is ...