President: Geneva talks signal crucial moment for Cyprus (Update 3)
By Evie Andreou in Geneva
President Nicos Anastasiades, who arrived in Geneva on Monday for the informal summit convened by the UN secretary-general, said this was a crucial moment for ...
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EU’s Borrell urged to participate in an informal meeting
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Tatar controversially renames bicommunal committees
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President meets UN representative over Unficyp, talks
President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday discussed developments on the Cyprus problem and the latest UN reports on Unficyp and the Good Offices mission in Cyprus with the UN’s special ...
Time working against finding political settlement says UNSG (updated)
While UN secretary general Antonio Guterres intends to invite all sides to a five-plus-one conference to explore if common ground exists to negotiate a solution to the Cyprus problem, in ...
President to suggest measures to overcome impasse in talks
President Nicos Anastasiades will suggest confidence-building measures aimed at breaking some of the deadlocks concerning the Cyprus problem, it emerged on Saturday.
Anastasiades is to send a letter to UN ...