Holguin due in Cyprus, govt hopeful on Cyprus problem mobility
The UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for Cyprus, Maria Angela Holguin arrives in Cyprus on Sunday evening, according to the UN in Cyprus.
This is Holguin’s first visit to ...
UN believes it is possible to find mutually acceptable solution in Cyprus, Stewart says
The UN believes that it is possible to find a mutually acceptable solution to the Cyprus problem and we have not given up after 60 years, Colin Stewart, Special Representative and ...
Cyprus says UN reports ‘do not offer clear record of events’
Cyprus is not on board with aspects of the UN Secretary-General’s reports on Unficyp’s mandate and Antonio Guterres’ Good Offices Mission, especially as regards incidents in the buffer ...
Archbishop: UN’s goals not always the middle ground
Cyprus’ Archbishop Georgios on Tuesday called on the UN to “take on its responsibilities” and protect the human rights of a people which has been suffering for years.
His statements ...
UN’s Stewart to meet leaders ahead of briefing Security Council
UN Special Representative on Cyprus Colin Stewart will be meeting with both President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar ahead of departing for New York to inform the ...
Abandoning the Sahel in chaos
On Sunday, the last of 12,000 United Nations peacekeeping troops left Mali, ordered out by the military regime that seized power after two successive coups in 2020 and 2021. They leave behind them 310 ...
Entire Gaza population facing hunger crisis, famine risk -U.N.-backed report
The entire 2.3 million population of the Gaza Strip is facing crisis levels of hunger and the risk of famine is increasing each day as the Israel-Hamas war grinds on, a ...
UN demands ceasefire in Gaza as Israel, U.S. show increasing divisions
Israel faced growing diplomatic isolation in its war against Hamas as the United Nations demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and U.S. President Joe Biden told the longtime ...
President discusses Turkish buffer zone violations with UNSG
President Nikos Christodoulides held on Friday evening a telephone conversation with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres focusing on the Cyprus issue, the Turkish violations in the buffer zone as well ...
US to veto UN’s Guterres’ demand for ceasefire at Security Council
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made a rare move to formally warn the Security Council of a global threat from the Gaza war as Arab states seek to use this ...
Christodoulides: Turkish Cypriot side backed away from Pyla deal
President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday that the Turkish Cypriot side had effectively “backed away” from the mutual understanding reached on construction works in the buffer zone village of Pyla.
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President says that appointment of UN envoy still ongoing
President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said that the appointment of the envoy of the UN Secretary General for the Cyprus problem is still ongoing.
Christodoulides was commenting on the issue ...
UN rights committee calls on Iran to disband morality police
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.
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‘Last chance to solve the Cyprus problem’: UN’s Colin Stewart
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 ...
High-ranking UN official to visit next week
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 ...
UN’s Stewart ‘optimistic’ about Pyla understanding
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 ...
Stewart: UN’s primary objective is to support efforts for a permanent settlement
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 junta orders top UN official to leave the country
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 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 ...