#UN General Assembly

Foreign ministry permanent secretary, ambassador Andreas Kakouris, will most probably be Cyprus’ candidate for the position of president of the UN General Assembly, after he retires from his ministry post ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Thursday held a tripartite meeting with his Greek and Jordanian counterparts Giorgos Gerapetritis and Ayman Safadi in New York. The foreign ministry said that at ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday morning told the United Nations General Assembly that a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem “cannot happen and cannot be accepted”. In his ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday said President Nikos Christodoulides’ speech at the United Nations General Assembly “reflected his well-known primitive policies” on the Cyprus problem. He said Christodoulides ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday addressed the 79th United Nations General Assembly, focusing on Cyprus’ role in promoting peace in the Eastern Mediterranean, condemning ongoing conflicts, and highlighting the persistent ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and other heads of government from across the globe on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in ...

The UN General Assembly in New York next week will be crucial for the Cyprus problem, President Nikos Christodoulides said in Athens on Thursday after he met Greece’s Prime ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is to meet with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on September 23, according to reports. The Cyprus News Agency (CNA) on Sunday reported that the pair will meet ...

Cyprus joined 152 other countries on Tuesday night in voting in favour of a United Nations General Assembly resolution which called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, as well as ...

Gaza’s besieged people had barely any communications with the outside world on Saturday as Israeli jets dropped more bombs and suggested a long-threatened ground offensive against Hamas militants running ...

Cyprus abstained on Friday night from a United Nations General Assembly vote on a resolution calling for a “sustained humanitarian truce in the Middle East”. The resolution was adopted by ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar met with leaders of the north’s major political parties on Wednesday morning to discuss his trip to New York. Tatar visited New York on ...

‘Gunboat diplomacy and strong-arm tactics belong to the past’ President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday called on his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan to work together to send a message of peace ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos has met with counterparts from across the globe on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Alongside other commitments, he met with ...

Socialist party Edek on Wednesday responded with a strong statement to comments made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his address to the UN General Assembly overnight in New ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos began bilateral meetings and contacts in New York ahead of the upcoming UN general assembly this week, as he began by speaking to his Serbian counterpart. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will meet on Tuesday with the President of the European Council to discuss efforts towards reviving Cyprus talks, while the issue will also be raised by UN ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will participate on Monday, in New York, in the opening segment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit. The political forum on sustainable development takes place on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides departed from Athens on Saturday to travel to New York where the 78th United Nations general assembly is to be held next week. The president is scheduled ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will seek the assistance of EU Council President Charles Michel and EU Commission President Ursula von de Leyen as part of efforts to have a joint meeting ...

A high-ranking UN official is expected to visit Cyprus in late August to hold meetings with President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, the Cyprus News Agency reported ...

Lebanon will pay arrears to the United Nations to regain its rights at the world body, its foreign ministry said on Friday, after the country, which is in deep financial ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will address the UN General Assembly in New York on Friday afternoon. The address will start at 4.45 Cyprus time and later he will meet with Secretary General ...

The Cyprus problem has been an open wound for the past 48 years, Greek Prime Minister Kyriacos Mitsotakis told diaspora Greeks at an event in New York early on Thursday. “We ...