Special envoy Lute expected back on the island next month
UN special envoy to Cyprus Jane Holl Lute is expected on the island for mid-March ahead of an informal conference tentatively scheduled to take place in Geneva for late April.
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Anastasiades and Macron exchange views over the phone
As part of their regular contacts, President Nicos Anastasiades spoke by phone on Sunday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macros, government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos said in a written statement.
During ...
Anastasiades and EC President agree that EU is needed at Cyprus conference
President Nicos Anastasiades and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have agreed that the EU needs to be represented at the informal meeting on Cyprus, which will be called ...
Turkey says it will only join Cyprus talks with two-state proposal (Updated)
Turkey will only join talks to resolve decades of dispute over Cyprus with a proposal to establish two states on the island, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Thursday, adding ...
Regional problems call for regional solutions, Christodoulides says
Regional problems and challenges require solutions coming from the region itself, Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday during a meeting in Athens with his counterparts from Mediterranean and Gulf ...
Anastasiades meeting negotiating team
President Nicos Anastasiades was meeting on Thursday with the members of the negotiating team ahead of the informal five-party summit on the Cyprus problem, government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos said.
Speaking ...
Erdogan: no other solution to Cyprus issue but two states (Update 2)
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday there was no other solution to the Cyprus issue but a two-state solution.
He also said that whether Greece accepts it or not, ...
Place and date of Cyprus conference still uncertain, Nicosia fears Turkish ‘games’ (updated)
The place and date of an informal five-party conference on Cyprus, which the UN Secretary-General intends to convene, remain uncertain, while Nicosia fears that Ankara is playing “games” with the ...
When names clash with history
Growing calls to change street names in Turkish Cypriot quarter of Larnaca
Names are notoriously contested territories whenever politics and history enter the mix. The Cyprus problem is no exception, ...
The Cyprob should end how it began, with the constitution
NOT many people know that Chrysostomos is one of Mozart’s many names. His full name is Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart.
The current Archbishop of Cyprus is also a ...
Tatar tells Raab two-state solution ‘realistic and fair’
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday conveyed to the British government that his side will be going into the five-way summit on Cyprus with a two-state mindset, an arrangement ...
Marcoullis says she and others not told they were off negotiating team
Former foreign minister and member of the Cyprus negotiating team Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis expressed her disappointment on Thursday because she was not officially informed by the palace that she would not ...
‘February to be critical month’ for Cyprus problem
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias met in London on Tuesday and “shared perspectives on prospects for an enduring solution in Cyprus,” the British foreign ...
Akinci warns against tabling two-state solution at 5+1 conference
Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci in two separate social media post hours apart on Sunday warned against the Turkish side attempting to pursue a two-state solution at the upcoming 5+1 ...
EU says two-state solution out of the question, Turkey upset with UNSC (Updated)
The pace of diplomatic activity is picking up ahead of the 5+1 informal conference on Cyprus slated for the beginning of March with the arrival this coming week of British Foreign ...
Anastasiades says ‘no question’ of consenting to change talks mandate
President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday said there was no question of him consenting to a change to the terms of the mandate regarding the solution of the Cyprus problem after ...
President Biden: America leading force for good again
By Alper Ali Riza
Inauguration Day in the US is the living embodiment of the American constitution, which I proffered as a model for Cyprus last week. A model is ...
The day of reckoning has come
The Greek Cypriot leadership must come to its senses. The time for acrobatics is over
In my article on Sunday, December 20, I said: “I dare to predict that in February ...
Neophytou: if UN initiative fails, Varosha will be lost in tsunami of developments
Unless the new initiative by the UN Secretary-General yields results, a “tsunami” of developments is expected in the summer that could see Varosha being lost, Disy chief Averof Neophytou has ...
Spehar to meet leaders separately on Wednesday
The UN Secretary General`s Special Representative in Cyprus Elizabeth Spehar will hold separate meetings with President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday, ahead of a ...
Disy rift over federation as a Cyprus solution
A two-state solution could never be Disy’s choice, the ruling party’s leader Averof Neophytou said on Monday in an apparent criticism of his deputy leader’s comments that ...
Lute to gauge the temperature on both sides Monday
President Nicos Anastasiades will on Monday morning meet the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cyprus, Jane Holl Lute to discuss preparations for an informal five-party meeting on the Cyprus ...
Anastasiades to meet Lute Monday morning
President Nicos Anastasiades, will receive the special envoy of the UN Secretary-General, Jane Holl Lute, at the Presidential Palace on Monday morning, it was announced on Friday.
Lute is expected ...
Tatar tells Guterres solution efforts ‘at a turning point’
In a letter to UN chief Antonio Guterres, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said he supports an informal five-party meeting to determine whether or not there is common ground between ...