#UN Secretary General

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos is set to have a meeting in New York with the UN secretary general to underline the island’s readiness to restart negotiations, President Nikos Christodoulides ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is seeking a meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, he said on Saturday. The president was commenting two days after ...

Politics hamper work of bicommunal committees. The Turkish earthquake was one tragic example Fears that certain bicommunal technical committees are underutilised have been exacerbated by the politics which followed Turkey’...

Ukraine said its forces had repelled Russian assaults along the length of the front line on Thursday on the eve of the war’s anniversary, as President Vladimir Putin, empty-handed ...

The United Nations Security Council is expected at the end of January to adopt a resolution extending the mandate of the peacekeeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) for another six months, ...

Unficyp deals with an average of 10 incidents per day in and around the buffer zone, engaging with both sides to ensure there is no escalation, UN general secretary Antonio Guterres ...

The UN secretary general’s mission of good offices report detailed a bleak review of and outlook for the Cyprus problem, despite a poll finding that a majority hope for ...

Political initiatives are being made in advance of his meeting with the UN Secretary General in September, the President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday. At the memorial service of Eoka ...

The Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the United Nations, Ambassador Andreas Hadjichrysanthou has expressed disappointment over the UNSG’s recent reports on the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged the leaders in Cyprus, President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar to encourage more direct contact and cooperation between the two ...

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 ...

The Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the United Nations Andreas Hadjichrysanthou has sent a letter to the Secretary-General denouncing Turkish violations of the national airspace and sea of Cyprus. Hadjichrysanthou ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has sent another letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reporting Turkey’s latest illegal actions in and around Cyprus but also calling for the immediate appointment of ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday briefed UK High Commissioner Stephen Lillie about his meeting in New York with the UN secretary general and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar. According to ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has voiced displeasure over the UN Secretary-General’s handling of the aftermath of a three-way meeting with the Turkish Cypriot leader in New York last week and ...

All members of the UN Security Council expressed strong concern over developments on Varosha on Wednesday, after the Secretary General’s special representative in Cyprus briefed council members. Diplomatic sources ...

President Nicos Anastasiades is set to meet UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres at 11.30 on Friday in the Belgian capital after reiterating on Thursday his determination to work closely with him ...

The UN Secretary General’s Cyprus envoy Jane Hall Lute is expected to travel to Greece and Turkey later this week, according to diplomatic sources. She will explore the possibilities ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Movement restrictions linked to the coronavirus pandemic have limited contacts across the Green Line and deepened estrangement between two communities, UN secretary general Antonio Guterres said in his latest report ...

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 ...

A letter by President Nicos Anastasiades containing suggestions on confidence-building measures (CBMs) aimed at boosting the prospects of a solution to the Cyprus problem has been delivered to UN Secretary-General ...