2015–17 Cyprus talks

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades has urged the European Union to support the Mediterranean island against Turkish threats over its planned drilling activity within the contours of its exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

The president of Cyprus took to the airwaves on Tuesday to defend his proposal for a more decentralized federal government he contended would function better if a reunification deal is reached with the ethnically divided nation's breakaway Turkish Cypriots.

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades will brief the Cypriot public Tuesday in a press conference on his idea for a decentralized federation as a model for reuniting the war-torn island.

The discovery of hydrocarbon reserves in the eastern Mediterranean creates new potential solutions for energy security in the European Union, Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades told the third EU-Arab World Summit in Athens on Monday and also sent a message to Turkey on Cyprus.

A protestor holds a placard reading in Greek "Go solution now" during a peace protest from Greek and Turkish Cypriots outside the presidential palace in the divided capital Nicosia, Thursday.

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akıncı has suggested a rare social meeting with Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades to talk about the new crossings would be "possible."

Jane Holl Lute, the special envoy of the UN Secretary General, wasted no time following a busy week by visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday.

The visit was not announced ahead of time but it was made known after the fact by a post on Cavusoglu's Twitter account.

The United Nations Secretary-General's temporary special consultant on Cyprus, Jane Holl Lute, met with Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akıncı on July 23.

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades is sending a message to Ankara and the Turkish Cypriot leadership that a Cyprus solution shouldn't fail to undo past injustices.

The United Nations general secretary's deputy advisor for Cyprus is meeting on Friday with Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci.

Elizabeth Spehar met with Anastasiades in the morning and was to hold talks with Akinci later in the day, laying the groundwork for a visit to the divided island of the UN's new special Cyprus envoy, Jane Holl Lute.