Nikos Anastasiades

The Parliament will decide on March 31st on the Parliamentary proposal by DISY that gives to the Ministry of Education the authority to decide on which anniversaries are to be celebrated in schools and how.

The leader of the Turkish-Cypriot community stated that he will sit again on the negotiating table only when the Cypriot Parliament withdraws its decision on the “Unification Referendum”.

There are people that have persistently been stressing for the past many decades that there cannot be a Cyprus settlement in talks under U.N. auspices as long as the two negotiating partners are not treated equally.

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akıncı was on front pages and TV screens last week with his continuing optimism. He was stressing that he believed it was still possible to resume the Cyprus talks and strike a deal by the end of April or May provided the Greek Cypriot side steps back from a law to mark the anniversary of the 1950 "enosis" (union with Greece) plebiscite.

A myth collapsed last week with Greek Cypriots walking the extra mile in oddity to legislate celebrating the anniversary of the 1950 "Enosis" (union with Greece) plebiscite in schools.

Greek Cypriots demonstrated hypocrisy once again this week when the House of Representatives voted to mandate schoolchildren to commemorate the 1950 "enosis" or "union with Greece" plebiscite, which was suggested by the socialist Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL) and supported by the Cyprus Church. The draft was sponsored by the marginal National Popular Front (ELAM), which was objecte

Nikos Anastasiades asked for a “truce” in the interior of Cyprus, as the negotiations for the resolution of the Cyprus issue are on a critical point.

The ongoing negotiations in Geneva on the Cyprus dispute is about to enter a new stage. According to the President of Cyprus, Nikos Anastasiades, it has been agreed that the two negotiating sides will exchange their ideas on maps today.

The maps tabled showed the legal Cypriot government offering the other side 28.2%, while the Turkish-Cypriot entity are demanding 1% more.

The new Cyprus rendezvous in Geneva is in a few days and the sides are undertaking their last preparations for what is claimed to be a make-or-break session.