Cyprus issue

When Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met in Athens on Saturday a resolution to the Cyprus issue were a critical part of what the two leaders discussed. As PM Tsipras emphasized discussions between Turkish...

"Greece and Cyprus, Cyprus and Greece are perfectly coordinated in terms of resolving the Cyprus issue," Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Wednesday said during his meeting with Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades at the Presidential Mansion. A solution to the Cyprus...

House Speaker Yiannakis Omirou called on the international community, on Sunday, to realize that now is the time to exert pressure on Turkey in order to abandon its intransigent stance on Cyprus, noting that so far we have not...

Developments in the Cyprus issue, regional matters and the island republic's imminent exit from the memorandums dominated a meeting between Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and the new leader of Greece's main opposition New Democracy party, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, on Monday. Anastasiades...

The European Commission and its President Jean-Claude Juncker personally are confident that 2016 will be the year to bring along a resolution of the Cyprus issue, according to EC spokesperson Mina Andreeva. The EC Spokesperson, answering a CNA question during...

UN Secretary General`s Special Adviser on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide, will be meeting with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Greek Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Evangelos Venizelos, in Athens today, November 5. Eide will meet Samaras at...

In a conversation Thursday with Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiades in Milan, Vladimir Putin deemed unacceptable "any violation of the sovereign rights of the Republic of Cyprus," according to Cypriot government spokesman Nikos Christodoulides. The two leaders met in a “very...

Joe Biden and his wife Jill, arrived at the Larnaca airport on Wednesday evening, May 21. The U.S. Vice President was welcomed by the Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides and the U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus John Koenig.

The manager of the private Turkish-Cypriot TV channel Kanal SIM, Sami Özuslu, announced that the station will be offering Greek language courses as of May 20. This is the first Turkish attempt of learning the Greek language through a television...

In an interview Tuesday with the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily, Republic of Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades asked the Turkish Cypriot side to ‘trust him’ ahead of a second round of peace talks scheduled for this week, stating his dream is...