Nicosia is preparing a demarche to be sent both to the UN Secretary-General and the UN Security Council over the former’s reports on Cyprus, President Nicos Anastasiades said on ...
President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola on Friday reiterated the institution’s condemnation of Turkey’s continued violations of Security Council resolutions on Famagusta.
She was responding to correspondence ...
Nicosia will work through diplomatic channels to attempt to ameliorate certain references in the recent reports on Cyprus issued by the UN Secretary-General.
“We will issue demarches wherever necessary, so ...
A United Nations envoy to lead engagement with the parties could provide critical support, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said in his Good Offices mission to Cyprus report.
“While ...
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s much-trumpeted proposals for cooperation may have caused a row in north, but had still not been received by the Cyprus government on Monday.
The ...
President Nicos Anastasiades offered to meet with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Paris, who instead suggested that a meeting could take place in the north – to which Anastasiades replied: “no ...
President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday he was not aware that Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar would be handing over proposals to a UN official who met separately with the ...
The build-up to the next six-monthly UN report on the Secretary-General’s Good Offices Mission and a second on the justifications for extending the Unficyp mandate from the end of ...
The “association” of petrol stations in the north has threatened to close its petrol stations after the decision by petroleum suppliers to reduce the time frame for repayment.
As reported ...
Trust between the two sides in Cyprus is at a low point and without rebuilding it, it will be difficult to move forward with the political process, a UN official ...
EFFORTS to prevent a settlement of our Cyprob have entered a new sphere, which involves an old methodology – letter-writing. The two leaders have now decided the best way not to ...
Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay was in the north on Thursday to bolster Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar whose election “had shown the desire of Turkish Cypriots for a ...
Cyprus cannot fall into the trap of “revisionist rhetoric” adopted by the Turkish president to serve his own purposes, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters following a ...
Comments made by Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on issues of ‘TRNC’ citizenship during a visit to the north were met by resistance by various members of society in ...
The conviction of the director of Turkish Cypriot media outlet Bayrak, Meryem Çavuşoğlu Özkurt, who was convicted yesterday and sent to prison for 2 months for violating the ‘law’ ...
The most important goal is to maintain the well-being of the people and the development of the economy in the north, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said, Turkish Cypriot daily ...
The foreign ministry on Monday accused Turkey of distorting reality to create tensions in the region, after Ankara said the government’s efforts for new confidence building measures were insincere, ...
There are two options in the next presidential elections, according to ruling Disy leader and presidential candidate Averof Neophytou – the stability of the country with a Disy government, or a ...
The governors of Cyprus have never promoted a comprehensive and viable plan of peaceful coexistence and mutual support of Greek and Turkish Cypriots
I am convinced that in a well-structured, ...
Instead of protecting the national cheese through the PDO, the government could have destroyed Cyprus’ most important export
The registering of halloumi as a PDO (protected designation of origin) was ...
The proposals for confidence building measures (CBMs) drawn up by President Nicos Anastasiades are beneficial to both sides, government spokesperson Marios Pelekanos said on Wednesday after Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin ...
It is regrettable that Turkey remains a ‘pampered child’ for some despite its continued provocations, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Saturday, expressing the wish that the current situation in Ukraine ...
Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulidis hopes that by the summer there will be some movement on the package of confidence-building measures (CBM) saying the Greek Cypriot proposals could not be so ...
President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday thanked Greek Prime Minister Constantinos Mitsotakis for the latter’s highlighting of the Cyprus issue during his recent working visit to the United States.
The ...