President gives all-clear for UN to appoint rep for Cyprus talks
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 ...
UN mission to visit Karabakh after military offensive
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 ...
Stripping Russia’s veto power on the Security Council is all but impossible
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 ...
Tatar says no to joint meeting, UN envoy
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 ...
Our View: Another pointless exercise in empty rhetoric
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 ...
Christodoulides reiterates commitment to Cyprus solution
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 ...
Christodoulides to address UN on Cyprus issue and regional cooperation
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 heads to New York for UN general assembly
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 ...
The Pyla crisis, Unficyp and the UN
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 ...
UN says more needed ‘on all fronts’ to meet climate goals
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 ...
UN response to Pyla road constitutes double standards
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 ...
UN’s Jenca heads to Turkey after ‘constructive’ visit to Cyprus
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, ...
Our View: Behaviour in Chlorakas cannot be tolerated
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 ...
FM to brief counterparts about Pyla incident
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 ...
Our View: Pyla must not become another zero-sum game
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 ...
Government ‘closely monitoring’ Pyla situation
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 ...
Congressman asks Biden to ensure Pyla crisis is ‘meaningfully addressed’ by UN
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 ...
UNSC to discuss situation in buffer zone during closed session on Monday (Update)
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 ...
Crisis group says appointment of new UN Cyprus envoy imperative
The UN Secretary-General needs to appoint an envoy to draft a roadmap with sufficient incentives to bring both Greek and Turkish Cypriots back to the negotiating table, the International Crisis ...
Britain, France and the US strongly condemn Pyla attack on UN personnel
Three permanent member countries of the UN Security Council on Friday condemned in the strongest terms the attack on UN peacekeepers in Pyla.
The British High Commission, the French Embassy, ...
North announces intention to build ‘unauthorised’ road through buffer zone (Updated)
Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis has condemned the north’s move to construct a road through the buffer zone between the villages of Pyla and Arsos.
His condemnation comes after after ...
Ergun Olgun: too yielding or too hardline?
Speculation over the reasons for resignation of Turkish Cypriot leader’s representative
The Turkish Cypriot leader’s special representative Ergun Olgun recently unexpectedly resigned, sparking speculation that he was no ...
UN Security Council condemns Pyla attacks, reaffirming full support for UNFICYP
Members of the Security Council condemned late Monday the incidents in the buffer zone, in the village of Pyla, in Larnaca district, with assaults against UN peacekeepers, reiterating their full ...
High ranking UN official to visit
A high-ranking UN official is expected to visit Cyprus in late August to hold meetings with President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, the Cyprus News Agency reported ...