UK calls for “creativity and flexibility” ahead of Geneva meeting
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who will today be attending talks hosted by the UN in Geneva aimed at restarting formal negotiations for a solution to the Cyprus issue, has ...
US hopes parties will approach Geneva talks with pragmatism and flexibility
US Ambassador in Nicosia Judith Garber has told CNA that the US hopes all parties will approach the informal talks in Geneva this week with sufficient pragmatism and flexibility to ...
China hopes Geneva meeting to pave way for fresh Cyprus negotiations
China hopes that the 5+1 informal meeting in Geneva will help lead to the relaunch of negotiations for a Cyprus settlement.
Replying to a question by CNA, Liu Yantao, the Ambassador ...
Neither a game of poker nor a game of chess
The days to come in Geneva will have a lot of suspense and drama
By Christos P Panayiotides
I often get the impression that those involved in the process of ...
Low expectations ahead of Geneva
Analysts say there is very little interest in the upcoming talks and the major players are just going through the motions
By Elias Hazou
The – for all intents and purposes – ...
Our View: Strange that minutes of Crans Montana meeting suddenly in the spotlight
A week before the informal five-party conference in Geneva President Nicos Anastasiades has quite unexpectedly decided to talk about the minutes of his meeting in Crans-Montana with Turkey’s Foreign ...
Diko leader accuses president of political fraud
People need to know President Nicos Anastasiades’ intentions on the Cyprus problem, Diko leader Nicolas Papadopoulos said on Tuesday, pointing out that just days before the five-party summit in Geneva ...
Lute meets Anastasiades at the palace (update 2)
UN envoy Jane Hall Lute met President Nicos Anastasiades at the presidential palace on Sunday morning as the informal meeting in Geneva draws closer.
During the meeting, held as part ...
New digital library provides complete guide to decades of Cyprus negotiations
A new digital library covering all things Cyprus negotiations-related is now available to the public in three languages, Greek, Turkish and English.
The comprehensive political guide has been developed and ...
EU confirms will be present at Geneva talks
The EU will be present at the conference on Cyprus, convened by the UN, both in the initial phase in Geneva and in the next phase of in-depth negotiations, a ...
Anastasiades and Mitsotakis discuss Geneva meeting in call
President Nicos Anastasiades exchanged views with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on the upcoming 5+1 informal meeting on Cyprus in Geneva during a phone conversation on Monday.
Government Spokesman Kyriakos Koushos ...
Proposal for a Covid buffer zone hospital
Open letter to Mr Josep Borrell, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy from Nicosia lawyer Achilleas Demetriades
Honourable High Representative of the European Union,
Your ...
President expresses readiness to engage with true political will in Geneva
President Nicos Anastasiades has told the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres he is ready and determined to engage with true political will in the talks during an informal meeting on ...
Disy leader: we should not reject British plan out of hand
Disy leader Averof Neophytou on Monday had an indirect dig at those critical of a British proposal aimed at bringing the two communities closer together ahead of the informal five-party ...
Our View: Why we should be wary of Russian interest in peace process
Nobody would have been surprised to hear government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos declare on Friday that “we cannot accept arbitration, nor asphyxiating time-frames.” We had not heard this slogan for a ...
Nicosia ‘cautiously optimistic’ ahead of informal conference (Update 2)
Nicosia is cautiously optimistic ahead of an informal conference on Cyprus, government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos said, reiterating that Greek Cypriots rejected a two-state system as a solution, which is favoured ...
Cavusoglu says talks must be based on sovereign equality
Reunification talks based on political equality have ended and new talks should have sovereign equality between two states, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday.
“This is our idea… ...
Guterres open to listening to new ideas if both sides have a common vision
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday his mandate from the UN Security Council refers explicitly to a bizonal, bicommunal solution in Cyprus, but this was not an impediment to ...
Tatar reiterates two-states rhetoric in call with UNSG
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar spoke with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres by teleconference late Monday, telling him it was a reality that there were two equal and separate sides on ...
Informal 5+1 meeting would be held at Greentree says Mavroyiannis
The informal 5+1 meeting is an ambitious goal, however we should not miss the window of opportunity presented to us, outgoing permanent representative of Cyprus to the UN and interlocutor of ...
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 ...