#United Nations (UN)

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres received two refusals from the Turkish Cypriot side and one ‘yes’ and one ‘no’ from Turkey to two proposals related to a joint meeting with the ...

After a week of wall-to-wall Cyprob contacts on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, President Nikos Christodoulides is coming home with another pocket full of wishes ...

Greece and Cyprus are in absolute coordination, President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stated, after their meeting on Wednesday and in the wake of the latter’s ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will give clear answers on Wednesday to the positions which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed in his speech before the UN General Assembly overnight in New ...

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 ...

An evaluation of the latest problems to have arisen in the buffer zone The attack by Turkish Cypriots against members of Unficyp in the buffer zone last month highlights their ...

The world is not on target to curb global warming and more action is needed on all fronts, the United Nations warned on Friday, in the run-up to crucial international ...

Unficyp has allowed plenty of Greek Cypriot building in buffer zone, Turkish Cypriots argue By Fahri Zihni Following the Pile (Pyla)-United Nations incident on August 18, when the building of ...

The assistant UN Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and Americas, Miroslav Jenca is set to arrive in Ankara on Wednesday for meetings with Turkish contacts. During a UN press briefing, ...

What happened in Chlorakas on Sunday and Monday were the worst cases of racist violence seen in Cyprus. The country may be facing a migration problem, a part of the ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Tuesday he will inform his EU counterparts on the situation in the buffer zone near Pyla, where scuffles broke out between UN peacekeepers in ...

The government, understandably, is pleased with the reaction to the Turkish attempts to carry out construction work in the buffer zone. Not only did Unficyp soldiers become involved in a ...

The government is “closely monitoring” the situation in Pyla, according to its spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis. He added that President Nikos Christodoulides and the Cypriot foreign minister were “constantly making diplomatic ...

Greek-American Congressman John Sarbanes said on Sunday he believed Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was responsible for the attack against UN peacekeepers in Pyla. The congressman has asked US President Joe ...

The situation at the buffer zone in Pyla remains calm, Unficyp spokesman Aleem Siddique said on Sunday morning, two days after a violent altercation against UN peacekeeping forces. “Everything is ...

The UN Secretary-General needs to appoint an envoy to draft a roadmap with sufficient incentives to bring both Greek and Turkish Cypriots back to the negotiating table, the International Crisis ...

Three permanent member countries of the UN Security Council on Friday condemned in the strongest terms the attack on UN peacekeepers in Pyla. The British High Commission, the French Embassy, ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis has condemned the north’s move to construct a road through the buffer zone between the villages of Pyla and Arsos. His condemnation comes after after ...

Speculation over the reasons for resignation of Turkish Cypriot leader’s representative The Turkish Cypriot leader’s special representative Ergun Olgun recently unexpectedly resigned, sparking speculation that he was no ...

Members of the Security Council condemned late Monday the incidents in the buffer zone, in the village of Pyla, in Larnaca district, with assaults against UN peacekeepers, reiterating their full ...

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 ...

Russia has not offered the UN World Food Programme (WFP) any free grain, WFP deputy chief Carl Skau said on Friday, nearly two weeks after Moscow quit a deal that ...

Russia pounded Ukrainian food export facilities for a fourth day in a row on Friday and practised seizing ships in the Black Sea in an escalation of what Western leaders ...

The European Commission is helping the United Nations and Turkey try to extend a deal allowing the Black Sea export of Ukraine grain and is open to “explore all solutions,” ...