#United Nations (UN)

A total of 989 airspace violations and 45 maritime infringements by Turkey between July and December 2024 were reported by Cyprus’ Permanent Representative to the UN Maria Michael in a letter submitted to ...

The expanded conference on the Cyprus problem will take place in New York during the second fortnight of July, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday. “The date that the United ...

The president of the European people’s party (EPP), Manfred Weber, has branded Turkey’s push for a two-state solution in Cyprus as “not only unacceptable but unrealistic and dangerous”, ...

Cyprus has strongly condemned Turkey’s ongoing exploitation of Greek Cypriot properties in the north, accusing Ankara of persistent violations of international law and deliberate obstruction of efforts to reach ...

Israeli fire killed at least 50 people on Monday, nearly half of them near an aid distribution site run by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the territory’s Health ...

President Nikos Christodoulides, held a meeting on Monday with United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the Ocean Conference in Nice, France. The two leaders discussed recent developments ...

Cyprus on Friday agreed to expand its cooperation with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), focusing on food waste, water resource management, and food security. The decision came ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has reportedly raised the issue of legal action against Turkish Cypriots accused of seizing Greek Cypriot properties in the north during a key meeting with ...

An attack on a UN food convoy in Sudan overnight killed five people and prevented food deliveries to children and families who face starvation in North Darfur’s al-Fashir, UN ...

Germany’s former foreign minister Annalena Baerbock has been elected president of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, securing 167 votes out of 174 cast by member states in ...

Cyprus has officially submitted to the UN the instrument of ratification for the Biological Diversity Beyond National Jurisdiction agreement, the foreign ministry announced on Friday. The BBNJ agreement is the ...

The aim of the UN chief’s personal envoy for Cyprus Maria Angela is to achieve results by the end of July, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday. Speaking ...

The government is doing everything in its power to secure a positive outcome in efforts to resolve the Cyprus issue, President, Nikos Christodoulides, said on Sunday, welcoming the visit of ...

UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy on Cyprus, Maria Angela Holguin, who has returned to Cyprus following her reappointment, will be received on Saturday at 1030(local time) by President Nikos Christodoulides. ...

Israeli airstrikes killed at least six Palestinians guarding aid trucks against looters, Hamas officials said on Friday, as the head of the United Nations warned that only a “teaspoon” of ...

Protecting civilians in times of war is a moral imperative, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said, while representing Cyprus at a United Nations security council working debate on the matter. He ...

The United Nations secretary-general’s personal envoy for Cyprus, María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar, is expected to visit the island from May 24 to 31 for a new round of ...

Slovakia’s Foreign State Secretary Ratislav Chovanec expressed hope on Friday that the leaders of the two communities in Cyprus would find “sufficient political courage, goodwill and statesmanship” to move ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli on Thursday called for revenge to be taken on the Greek Cypriot side on the matter of property, in light of recent arrests, ...

The leaders in Cyprus are looking forward to receiving the UN chief’s personal envoy Maria Ángela Holguín in the coming weeks, deputy spokesman for the secretary-general, Farhan Haq, ...

The United States on Friday designated Haiti’s powerful Viv Ansanm gang alliance, whose members have taken control of almost all the capital Port-au-Prince and spread to surrounding areas, a “...

The United Nations is considering a massive overhaul that would merge major departments and shift resources across the globe, according to an internal memo prepared by senior officials tasked with ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is deeply alarmed by reports of strikes on a detention centre for African migrants in Yemen, U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Monday. “Strikes ...

Friday marked 21 years since Greek Cypriots rejected the United Nations’ Annan plan in a landmark referendum held on April 24, 2004. In a statement issued on the anniversary, the group Adouloti Keryneia ...