Nikos Anastasiades

Welcome to Nikos and Andros?

Many people were puzzled when Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu and Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavu?o?lu separately met in Istanbul with Andreas Kyprianou, the secretary-general of the Greek Cypriot Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL). Particularly, the very fact that the meeting came immediately after a landmark trilateral meeting of the two Cypriot leaders with the U.N.

The Davos encounter?

"The two communal leaders of Cyprus," I would say, but Greek Cypriots would bombard me with protest letters that Nikos Anastasiades was the "president" of the U.N. and EU-member Cyprus, not a communal leader with his buddy Mustafa Ak?nc?. Anyhow, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be meeting with the two on Jan.

March syndrome

Expectations are again building for a probable conclusion within a month or so of the talks aimed at creating a "bi-zonal and bi-communal federation" on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus.

Progress reached in Cyprus peace talks, says UN's special advisor

The special adviser of the U.N. Secretary-General (SASG) on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide, said after a meeting with Turkish Cypriot Leader Mustafa Ak?nc? on Nov. 24 that progress has been reached on a number of issues in recent peace talks. Eide was speaking a day before the two leaders from both sides of divided Cyprus were scheduled to meet in Nicosia as part of talks on Nov. 25. 

Cypriot text books and the will for resolution

Nicos Katsourides, a senior member of the Greek Cypriot Progressive Party of the Working People (AKEL), let the cat out of the bag. "What's being achieved at the [intercommunal] talks is nothing further than a reaffirmation of the past convergences; in reality the talks have landed in a deadlock," the veteran politician said during an interview with the Alithia.

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