Politics of Cyprus
President Anastasiades says UN envoy Espen Barth Eide adopts unilateral positions
President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades expressed on Sunday his regret over the fact that the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide, appears to adopt positions expressed from one side in Cyprus, without listening first.
Janissary music
Espen Barth Eide, the U.N. secretary-general's special Cyprus envoy, will soon be meeting the leaders of the two peoples of Cyprus, to explain that many years of United Nations-sponsored Cyprus talks may be leading to a humiliating failure, perhaps forcing an "embrace of the serpent."
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President Pavlopoulos: The Cyprus dispute is not a national but an international & European problem
“Whatever solution to the Cyprus problem must be compatible with the European law,” the President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos on Wednesday said addressing the plenary session of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
A new methodology for Cyprus
Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akıncı has apparently woken up from wild dreams that there could be a Cyprus resolution within few months or within a year or two "unless the methodology of the talks changed."
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July a natural date for Cyprus solution: Turkish Cypriot leader
July is a not an official but a "natural end-date" for a solution to be found in the more than 40-year-long Cyprus conflict, Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akıncı has stated.
UN envoy says Cyprus security deal possible
The United Nations has helped put together a compromise formula that could overcome the key obstacle of security which stands in the way of a deal to reunify the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, a U.N. envoy said on April 13.
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UN envoy says Cyprus talks 'at crossroads'
Greek and Turkish Cypriots have reached a critical juncture in negotiations to end the decades-old division of their island and only a small number of issues remain to be resolved, the United Nations envoy for Cyprus said on Thursday.
"We are at a crossroads," UN envoy Espen Barthe Eide told Reuters in an interview.
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Crucial days in Cyprus
With the question "When will they collapse this time?" occupying minds, the Cyprus negotiations left behind yet another crisis and resumed on April 11. In Turkey, meanwhile, only five days were left before a crucial vote that may be of existential importance for the future of the country.
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Cyprus peace talks resume after two-month gap
The two Cypriot leaders on April 11 rebooted stalled U.N.-backed reunification talks for the island and agreed to pick up lost momentum after a two-month suspension.
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Turkish Cypriot leader warns Greek Cyprus over hydrocarbon exploration before talks restart
Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akıncı has warned Greek Cyprus ahead of a resumption of peace talks that if the natural resources drilling off the island starts before an agreement on the island then there will be new tensions, which he does not favor.